Band 5 Community Staff Nurse
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Job summary
We are pleased to announce fantastic opportunities for Registered Nurses who wish to develop their career within our energetic and highly skilled District Nursing teams within Division 7. Our teams are enthusiastic and motivated with a breadth of experience and a shared goal to provide the highest standards of quality care and good experiences to our patients.
The role involves delivering skilled and evidence-based care to patients within their home environment who can have very complex needs. Our District Nursing teams work closely with specialist nurses and Drs, GPs, Therapists and Social Work teams in providing and facilitating collaborative support and care to patients and their families and in preventing avoidable hospital admissions.
We have a clear exciting career development pathway with opportunities to band 6 Deputy District Nurse posts which allow you to continue developing your clinical, leadership and theoretical skills in District Nursing Practice while undertaking further seconded study to achieve the District Nurse Specialist Practitioner qualification.
In In addition we offer:
Access to NHS Pension
Paid Annual Leave
Statutory Maternity Pay and Paternity Pay (Subject to qualifying criteria)
Staff Benefits -- Car Lease Scheme
Flexible Working - we consider all requests for flexible working to meet the needs of your family circumstances
The interview will be carried out via Microsoft teams.
Main duties of the job
The individuals we are looking for will be highly motivated, enthusiastic and innovative who pride themselves in delivering exceptional standards of quality care and have the ability to embrace the challenges of the changing and growing demands of the primary care setting.
Previous community experience is not essential as full training and support will be provided to the right candidates. We offer a robust induction package, competency frameworks as well as development and training programmes. These will include individual and personalised support, coaching and assessment from our Quality Improvement Lead in order to maximise your full individual potential.
We welcome applications from student nurses in their last 6 months of training and newly qualified nurses, we are able to offer an excellent preceptorship programme and the allocation of a buddy mentor within the teams.
You will need to be able to meet the needs of this service by being available to work flexibly between the hours of 07:00 to 23:00 hours on a rota basis over a 7 day period and be able to drive.
We have full & part time posts available across all teams, North, Rural, Central and Shirley.
Kelly Frail, Senior District Nurse (North Team) 07812 162112
Jackie O'Sullivan, Senior District Nurse (Central Team) 07977 035621
Harry Moore, Team Leader (Shirley Team) 07920 535925
Hannah Lewis, Senior District Nurse ( Rural Team) 07814 218210
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
- Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
- Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. We do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://birminghamandsolihullcovidvaccine.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Details
Date posted
28 March 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£25,655 to £31,534 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
304-45503LP1
Job locations
Solihull Community Nursing
Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 4BN
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Solihull Community Nursing
Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 4BN
Employer's website
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