Community Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Various vacancies across the Blackburn with Darwen team

Have you ever thought about working in the community? Are you passionate about delivering high quality person centred care to patients within their own home?

We have excellent opportunities for you to work in Community Nursing Services within the Blackburn with Darwen Locality.

Working as a member of the team, you will provide holistic, high quality, clinically effective care to patients, working under the guidance and support of the Team Leader and Team Manager. Our District Nursing teams are co-located with social work colleagues and the voluntary sector providing integrated neighbourhood working which supports person centred care.

We welcome enquires regarding the posts and informal visits can be arranged.

The services operates 365 days per year and the post will involve shift work to include weekends, evening, bank holidays and occasional night working.

Main duties of the job

District Nurses are highly skilled practitioners who carry out interventions which include:-

Holistic assessment of needs
Wound care
End of life and palliative care
Leg Ulcer management and compression therapy
Diabetes management
Bladder and bowel care
Safeguarding

The successful candidate must demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills to provide a high standard of care to ensure a positive patient experience.

Experience in community care is an advantage however the post is also suitable for newly qualified nurses. We have an excellent preceptorship programme which all our newly qualified staff will follow.

All our staff are supported to develop within their role to meet the changing needs of the service and their own professional development goals.

Staff wellbeing is high on our locality health and wellbeing agenda, and staff have access to our Employee Assist Programme and receive regular clinical and professional supervision.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Date posted

22 February 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£25,655 to £31,534 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

351-CW1671-CLK-L

Job locations

Various posts across BwD team

Blackburn

BB1 2FD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person Specification

Education

Essential

First level registered nurse
Diploma in health related area or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential

Excellent communication both written and verbal
Evidence of effective interpersonal skills
Team worker

Experience

Essential

Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working

Person Specification

Education

Essential

First level registered nurse
Diploma in health related area or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential

Excellent communication both written and verbal
Evidence of effective interpersonal skills
Team worker

Experience

Essential

Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).