Community Nurse

Job summary

Community Nursing -- bringing the hospital to our patient's home.

Solent NHS Trust is looking for inspirational registered nurses to deliver a high standard of quality care to patients within the community setting. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patient's own home environment (including residential care) and designated treatment rooms. Our nurses are responsible for a manageable caseload, working across the city ensuring our patients are receiving the best quality care from the comfort of their own homes and thereby avoiding hospital admission.

Although a lone worker, you will be supported by an experienced and nurturing team who are always available, to allow you to develop your existing skills into becoming an autonomous practitioner in the community. You will be provided the training you require to maintain and develop your clinical skills. This will be achieved by attending appropriate training and working with our Educators in Practice and other staff within the team.

You will work within a team that is based at Bitterne Health Centre located in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 -- 1630 and 1400 -- 2200 hours, but we are open to discussing this. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays. Your job has to work around you too so let's talk about how we can get this right for you and our patients.

Main duties of the job

Solent's Community Nursing Service work with adults who need support for a multitude of health conditions. These include:

*Long term conditions management

*Acute wounds and complex wound care

*Palliative and end of life care, including bereavement support.

*Facilitating discharge from hospital, including drain management, administration of prophylactic medication

*Continence care, including all types of catheter care and bowel care

*PICC line management

*Administration of a variety of medications via different routes

Solent's Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services (both within Solent and external providers) to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by July 2024.Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on 1st July 2024. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.