Community Staff Nurse Bank

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 May 2025

Job summary

Community Staff Nurse - District Nursing - Bank Band 5

As a qualified registered nurse you will be working across teams in either Bexley or Greenwich to deliver excellent nursing care in the community in patients homes and residential units. We will assign you to work across 2 core teams, but from time to time ask you to support in other teams.

We are able to offer flexibility in the choice of shifts available and are able to guarantee shifts for a long-term period with the service due to existing vacancies. We provide our bank staff with training and development opportunities in the same way we do our substantive staff and encourage you to develop your clinical skills within a supportive environment.

You will be required to understand and adhere to all Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Working as a bank nurse provides you with an opportunity to experience working across teams with support from specialist nurses including Diabetes and Tissue Viability teams. We also have practice development nurses in End of Life care to support your practice.

Our bank workforce is highly valued and is an essential component of successful service delivery for our teams.

Main duties of the job

As a community staff nurse in District Nursing you will undertake the following interventions for patients in the community:

Wound management

Lower leg wound care

Pressure Ulcer care

Bladder and Bowel Management

Administration of medication

Diabetes Care

Nutrition management

PICC Line care

Phlebotomy

End of life care

Where your competencies need updating in these tasks we will support you to develop these so that you are able to deliver the full range of interventions.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

Date posted

28 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£37,173 a year pa pro-rata inc. hcas

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

277-DistrictNurseBank-I

Job locations

181 Goldie Leigh

Lodge Hill

London

SE2 0AS

Job description

Job responsibilities

To participate and provide support and health education programmes for patients, carers, and families.

To establish professional relationships with patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.

To ensure own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust guidelines.

To provide evidence-based care to patients, assess and formulate personalised care plans, and implement and evaluate care

Work to NMC Guidelines and maintain professionalism at all times.

To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the Community Health Services as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.

Management responsibilities

To prioritise clinical workload according to patient need.

To report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or near misses promptly and when required, to co-operate with any investigation undertaken.

To demonstrate efficient and effective use of resources within own practice.

To attend and participate in clinical supervision in line with Trust policy.

To understand and adhere to all Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust policies procedures and guidelines.

To demonstrate an awareness of health care delivery systems and the local and national priorities of health care delivery, e.g. Intermediate Care, Frailty, Poly Pharmacy and acute and chronic ill health conditions.

To actively participate in the Professional Development Review (PDR) process and ensure training needs are addressed.

To maintain NMC registration.

Leadership

Complies with the NMC Code of Conduct & PREP requirements

To be accountable to line manager and professional leads.

To act as a mentor/preceptor to new staff, students and other non-registered team members and support them to achieve their learning objectives.

Clinical

To work under supervision during induction period and identify any learning in own competencies to undertake the role.

Work/Liaise with other nursing team members to ensure that plans of nursing care are carried out to the agreed standard.

To demonstrate evidence of comprehensive nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patient/client.

To work within a clinical effectiveness framework using evidence-based practice, research and audit to plan implement and evaluate care.

To share good practice in order to improve standards of care.

To assist in the development and evaluation of teaching programmes for students and other care workers.

For nurses working in the community, to develop and achieve baseline skills, for example venepuncture, intravenous medication administration, Doppler assessments, ear syringing and the use of syringe drivers.

Research

To be aware of and keep up to date with current research-based evidence.

To participate in research, audit or quality assurance projects as required and provide evidence-based care.

Communication

To ensure effective communication with patients and their carers, including the provision of patient education, health promotion and emotional support where appropriate.

To ensure effective communication with senior nursing staff and all members of the multidisciplinary team.

To record treatment and care carried out in the patients/clients homes on appropriate documentation. Records must be kept up to date and accurate in accordance with trust policies.

Ensure that all relevant information regarding patients is documented and where appropriate reported and acted upon immediately.

To provide accurate written and verbal reports as required.

To keep a diary for the purpose of planning work and recording all visits, both effective and non-effective.

To maintain confidentiality of information relating to patients, staff and organisation.

To have the ability to interpret sensitive information and communicate with a sympathetic and empathic approach to patient-centred care.

To be able to work appropriately with any barriers to communication: older people, physical disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To participate and provide support and health education programmes for patients, carers, and families.

To establish professional relationships with patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.

To ensure own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust guidelines.

To provide evidence-based care to patients, assess and formulate personalised care plans, and implement and evaluate care

Work to NMC Guidelines and maintain professionalism at all times.

To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the Community Health Services as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.

Management responsibilities

To prioritise clinical workload according to patient need.

To report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or near misses promptly and when required, to co-operate with any investigation undertaken.

To demonstrate efficient and effective use of resources within own practice.

To attend and participate in clinical supervision in line with Trust policy.

To understand and adhere to all Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust policies procedures and guidelines.

To actively participate in the Professional Development Review (PDR) process and ensure training needs are addressed.

To maintain NMC registration.

Leadership

Complies with the NMC Code of Conduct & PREP requirements

To be accountable to line manager and professional leads.

To act as a mentor/preceptor to new staff, students and other non-registered team members and support them to achieve their learning objectives.

Clinical

To work under supervision during induction period and identify any learning in own competencies to undertake the role.

Work/Liaise with other nursing team members to ensure that plans of nursing care are carried out to the agreed standard.

To demonstrate evidence of comprehensive nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patient/client.

To work within a clinical effectiveness framework using evidence-based practice, research and audit to plan implement and evaluate care.

To share good practice in order to improve standards of care.

To assist in the development and evaluation of teaching programmes for students and other care workers.

Research

To be aware of and keep up to date with current research-based evidence.

To participate in research, audit or quality assurance projects as required and provide evidence-based care.

Communication

To ensure effective communication with patients and their carers, including the provision of patient education, health promotion and emotional support where appropriate.

To ensure effective communication with senior nursing staff and all members of the multidisciplinary team.

To record treatment and care carried out in the patients/clients homes on appropriate documentation. Records must be kept up to date and accurate in accordance with trust policies.

Ensure that all relevant information regarding patients is documented and where appropriate reported and acted upon immediately.

To provide accurate written and verbal reports as required.

To keep a diary for the purpose of planning work and recording all visits, both effective and non-effective.

To maintain confidentiality of information relating to patients, staff and organisation.

To have the ability to interpret sensitive information and communicate with a sympathetic and empathic approach to patient-centred care.

To be able to work appropriately with any barriers to communication: older people, physical disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or equivalent NMC registration
Good verbal and written skills and understanding of English to IELTS level

Desirable

Practice Assessor or willingness to undertake PA training

Experience

Essential

Experience of working within the NHS
Able to demonstrate the ability to write personalised patient care plans through holistic assessment and implement and evaluate care in line with contemporary practice.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of the role of the Community Health Care Team
Multidisciplinary team working

Desirable

Knowledge of DH initiatives regarding Long Term Conditions
Ability to facilitate learning for students

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or equivalent NMC registration
Good verbal and written skills and understanding of English to IELTS level

Desirable

Practice Assessor or willingness to undertake PA training

Experience

Essential

Experience of working within the NHS
Able to demonstrate the ability to write personalised patient care plans through holistic assessment and implement and evaluate care in line with contemporary practice.

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of the role of the Community Health Care Team
Multidisciplinary team working

Desirable

Knowledge of DH initiatives regarding Long Term Conditions
Ability to facilitate learning for students

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.