Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nurse wanting to gain the skills, knowledge, and competencies relevant to the community?

Do you want to develop your career within a clinically led organisation, at the forefront of the revolution of adult community nursing?

Are you passionate for high quality patient care and experience?

This unique position offers you the opportunity to work as part of a highly skilled community workforce who are the cornerstone of safe patient care. You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team to visit patients in their own homes and care homes to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We have lots of training and development pathways at every level through from band 3 to band 8. We provide a preceptorship program to support you in your role and ongoing training and development.

We use electronic clinical records through EMIS and a work IPad and IPhone will be provided.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious Senior Registered Nurse to join the wider Community Nursing Team which includes Community Matrons, District Nurses, Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates and Healthcare Assistants. You will work under the direction of a District Nurse to assess, implement and evaluate person centred care for a caseload of patients. You will undertake clinical skills including venepuncture, wound care, catheterisation and end of life including syringe drivers.

Post holders will be available to work Monday to Sunday between 8am and 8pm. A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use if required for this post, however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Procare Community Services are not a UKVI sponsoring organisation, so all candidates are required to have their own independent right to work.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification to understand more about the opportunity this role presents you.

About us

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.