Community Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 May 2025

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specializing in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities.

Community Staff Nurse

Band 5

Permanent: 37.5 hours per week includes weekend working.

We are a vibrant innovative Integrated Care Team, with a passion for providing excellent care for our patients. We work closely with GPs and Allied Health Care Professionals and have a One Team Approach, embracing staff development and learning.

We are seeking either newly qualified or experienced nurses to provide complex care and treatment to adults living in the area who have long-term or complex health needs.

To support you within your role, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have an excellent learning and development department.

We offer a cohesive preceptorship program, and you would have an experienced coach based within our team to enable you to become confident and competent within your role.

You will be responsible for managing your allocated work on a day-to-day basis.

The role will also develop you to manage the co-ordination of a shift and supporting and line managing junior staff.

Access to a vehicle and possession of a full driving license is essential.

Main duties of the job

Working within Professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload (via Nursing, Mental Health, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy interventions) for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holder will have responsibility for managing, co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the community. The post holder will also have a responsibility for re-enablement, rehabilitation, health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Date posted

28 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-SW-7950

Job locations

Unit 40 Chapel Lane

Rushington Business Park, Chapel Lane

Totton

Hampshire

SO40 9LA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Act at all times with compassion, to be committed to delivering high quality care, use effective communication, be competent and have courage when needed.

Participate in the holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and therapy for patients in the home, without direct supervision. This includes those with chronic disease, terminal illness who wish to die at home and complex care needs. Other settings include residential homes, nursing homes, clinics, community centres and community hospitals.

Recognise and respond to the need for appropriate referral to other members of the Community Care team or external organisations including appropriate escalation of potential safeguarding risks.

Provide safe medicines management in your area, according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.

Inform the Nursing Sister or Integrated Clinical Lead of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care.

Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients'needs are met.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients'needs.

Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.

Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care.

Contribute to proactive interdisciplinary discharge and transfer planning for patients.

Practice and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice.

Practice and promote safe and effective record keeping in line with trust policies and professional standards.

Encourage a culture of patient wellness and coproduction.

Ensure that patients with palliative care needs (and their families) have those needs met.

Demonstrate competence and confidence in clinical practice: this includes all clinical procedures that are relevant/specialist to the area.

Recognises own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of

patient's needs, referring to other healthcare professionals accordingly and is

accountable for his/her own action.

Manage conflicts and the reactions of patients, families and carers seeking the support of seniors.

Manage own case load.

Manage self and others as appropriate this may include contributing to performance management, training and development, appraisals, incident and complaints management.

Deputise for the Nursing Sister as required.

Proactively take part in talent management.

Proactive involvement in clinical audit.

Take an active role in team initiatives.

Take an active role in promoting the interests and philosophy of the team.

Ensure that equipment is used in the approved manner and is kept in good condition so that resources are used effectively and efficiently.

Engage with systems of risk assessment and management.

Building and maintaining effective relationships with all stakeholders.

To be able to contribute to investigations as required.

Support students in their learning and development.

Promote an open reflective learning culture.

Support new staff to receive correct induction so that they understand acceptable practice and standards.

Actively support other teams in the department when needed so that those teams can deliver high standards of care.

Develop own professional skills and ensure these are shared with the team and wider Division.

Use reflective practice to analyse incidents and events and to develop high quality care.

Ensure practice follows evidence-based practice and national guidelines are followed.

Actively participates in the HIOW developments related to chronic disease management and targeted care, e.g. diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, dementia, falls within HIOW and across the boundaries of health and social care/primary and secondary care.

Initiates policy and practice changes as a result of incidents, audits and complaints.

Responsible for safe use of equipment and ensuring frequent checks are taken.

Ensures self and colleagues are trained and competent to use equipment safely.

Provides and receives complex, sensitive information to patients/relatives and colleagues and with empathy, persuasion and reassurance and ensure information is clearly understood, where there maybe barriers to understanding

Actively listens, drawing out information and checks understanding.

Empathises with others and considers their needs and feelings.

Able to deal with frequent emotional or distressing circumstances.

Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management.

Frequently moves /lifts patients.

Care of patients/clients with chronic illness/conditions, terminally ill and deaths.

Ability to travel across Trust sites as required.

Accountable for making autonomous clinical decisions in planning and prioritising patient care for the team and across the locality when required.

Accountable for own professional actions and clinical decisions and those of the team.

Act as an independent decision maker with regard to referrals to other agencies and the admission/discharge from the ICT caseload.

Responsible for recognising the needs of the service, identifying risk and making rapid autonomous decisions to provide appropriate management of the service.