Senior Community Nurse UCR

Job summary

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Senior Community Nurse to join our dynamic UCR team. In this role, you will take responsibility for providing the highest standards of patient care through ongoing assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care programs.

As a Senior Community Nurse, you will work within Nursing and Midwifery guidelines and manage a defined caseload. You will play a pivotal role in meeting the needs of patients and their families, promoting improved health outcomes, and enhancing health and wellbeing. Your work will be guided by values of care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. You will ensure that care is comprehensive, patient-centred, culturally sensitive, evidence-based, and promotes independence.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to further develop your nursing career while making a tangible difference in the lives of patients and their families.

If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and meet the above requirements, we would love to hear from you!

Apply today to join our team and make a difference.

This role will cover South East Hampshire.

You will need to hold a valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Main duties of the job

The primary role of the Senior Community Nurse is to provide strong holistic leadership to the team and support the Community Matron. To include day to day leadership responsibilities, development and creative leadership, responsive leadership, enabling the team to achieve a 'well led' culture.

The community teams in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically, GP's, Practice Nurses and Social Care professionals, will lead and facilitate a patient or client focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital

The candidate will participate in and influence efforts across health and social services to shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through the proactive provision of care in or as close to the patients own home as possible. The candidate will work across the caseload and the single point of access or (equivalent), using their clinical skills to identify the needs of patients and the correct services to liaise with

The candidate will provide an expertise in their own discipline to the wider team

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Fort Southwick

James Callaghan Drive

Fareham

Hampshire

PO17 6AR

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Fort Southwick

James Callaghan Drive

Fareham

Hampshire

PO17 6AR

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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