Job summary
The Urgent
Community Response team supports patients who are housebound by providing
nursing assessment and care in their own homes to avoid hospital admission, 24 hours a day. We are looking for an experienced motivated, reliable Nurse to join our Urgent Community Response service to provide day and night cover for patients throughout the North West Surrey area.
Main duties of the job
Working in partnership with specialist community services and other
social care teams, to provide high quality nursing care and advice. The service
offers professional advice, support and skilled nursing care to enable patients
to live as independently as possible in their own homes and avoid unnecessary
hospital admissions. It is important to note that the post-holder may be
required to rotate between community services including Urgent Community
Response. There may also on occasion be a requirement to work days.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest
established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get
NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of
5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the
care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to
the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and
leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion,
Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called
The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are
heard at Board level.
CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused
individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from
all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for
and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named
individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal
duties to include:
- Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as
negotiated and agreed with Out Of Hours coordinator
- Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and
dignity at all times
- Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic
programmes of care
- Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers
- Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the
patient
- Develop effective communication and liaison systems
- Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous
records according to CSH Surreys procedures
- Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team
and students
- Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff
- Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence based nursing
care
- Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC
guidelines
- Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision
activities
- Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with
the senior team member, deputising as required
- Be responsible and maintain timely patient care
- Be responsible for maintain data entry and other record keeping
- To work in co-operation and partnership with all other
professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient
- Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in
place to protect vulnerable individuals
- Participate in the CSH Surrey Clinical Governance Strategy
- Participate in the CSH Surrey Risk Management
Strategy
- Undertake any such other duties which may be required from time to
time as are consistent
- with the post
- Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC
guidelines
- Co owners are employed to work within CSH Surrey localities and may
be
- reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more
permanent basis, as
- requested by service needs
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal
duties to include:
- Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as
negotiated and agreed with Out Of Hours coordinator
- Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and
dignity at all times
- Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic
programmes of care
- Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers
- Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the
patient
- Develop effective communication and liaison systems
- Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous
records according to CSH Surreys procedures
- Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team
and students
- Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff
- Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence based nursing
care
- Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC
guidelines
- Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision
activities
- Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with
the senior team member, deputising as required
- Be responsible and maintain timely patient care
- Be responsible for maintain data entry and other record keeping
- To work in co-operation and partnership with all other
professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient
- Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in
place to protect vulnerable individuals
- Participate in the CSH Surrey Clinical Governance Strategy
- Participate in the CSH Surrey Risk Management
Strategy
- Undertake any such other duties which may be required from time to
time as are consistent
- with the post
- Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC
guidelines
- Co owners are employed to work within CSH Surrey localities and may
be
- reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more
permanent basis, as
- requested by service needs
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care
- Effective communicator
- Teaching skills
- IT and data entry skills
- Autonomous and team worker and ability to supervise junior members of the team
- Demonstrates initiative
- Ability to organise own time efficiently
- Ability to develop new skills appropriate to role
Desirable
- Presentation skills
- Leadership skills
- Evidence of innovation
- Negotiation skills
- Experience of appraisal and clinical supervision
- Awareness of benchmarking
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level registration
- Recognised teaching qualification/or willingness to learn
Desirable
- Willingness to develop areas of specialist interest
- Health Assessment skills/willingness to learn
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration community experience
- To have an understanding of current issues affecting the NHS
- Involvement in programmes of quality care
- Clinical Governance agenda
- Risk management agenda
- Research awareness
Desirable
- Change management knowledge
- Research and clinical
- Audit experience
- Mentorship teaching and assessing experience
- Team management and multidisciplinary working experience
Other
Essential
- Flexible.
- Reliable.
- Adapt positively to change.
- Car driver with a valid licence to drive in UK with access to a car to use for business purposes.
Desirable
- Ability to work under pressure
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care
- Effective communicator
- Teaching skills
- IT and data entry skills
- Autonomous and team worker and ability to supervise junior members of the team
- Demonstrates initiative
- Ability to organise own time efficiently
- Ability to develop new skills appropriate to role
Desirable
- Presentation skills
- Leadership skills
- Evidence of innovation
- Negotiation skills
- Experience of appraisal and clinical supervision
- Awareness of benchmarking
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level registration
- Recognised teaching qualification/or willingness to learn
Desirable
- Willingness to develop areas of specialist interest
- Health Assessment skills/willingness to learn
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration community experience
- To have an understanding of current issues affecting the NHS
- Involvement in programmes of quality care
- Clinical Governance agenda
- Risk management agenda
- Research awareness
Desirable
- Change management knowledge
- Research and clinical
- Audit experience
- Mentorship teaching and assessing experience
- Team management and multidisciplinary working experience
Other
Essential
- Flexible.
- Reliable.
- Adapt positively to change.
- Car driver with a valid licence to drive in UK with access to a car to use for business purposes.
Desirable
- Ability to work under pressure
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
