Community Registered Nurse

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LW appreciates that work-life balance is vitally important for our employees' well-being; therefore, we have hours available from 22.5 - 37.5 hours per week on a permanent contract. Our core hours are 08:00-17:30 and are open to discuss any working pattern within these hours, to enable you to get the balance of home and work life that suits.

The role requires positivity, excellent communication, leadership, and caseload management abilities. A need to demonstrate integrity and initiative, sound clinical knowledge with evidenced-based practice, and the ability to support the team, approaching your work in a coordinated way.

We work integrated with primary care, adult social care, therapists, urgent and intermediate care services alongside our specialist services informing our ageing well MDTs which facilitates shaping our future to deliver great quality care for housebound individuals.

We strive to improve health outcomes and patient experience. This role supports people in their own homes and care homes with our Care Home Service. Through expert advice, clinical support, and treatment, promoting the optimum quality of life while providing an effective and efficient service delivery, utilising health promotion, wound, medication, and continence management. Taking an active role with TEP, ACP with EOL Patients.

Main duties of the job Community Registered Nurse - your role is vital in terms of coordinating people's care through holistic evidence-based best practice in accordance with National and Organisational approved policies/procedures.

You will be an autonomous practitioner and role model. Responsible for assessing, triaging, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care, supporting the Community Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence.

Manage sensitive issues and overcome obstacles in communication.

Required to undertake a robust induction; a mentor will be allocated to support your learning and development.

We offer training with required competencies for you to build on your knowledge, experience, and skills. You will be expected to undertake continued learning with accessibility to accredited courses.

Required to be competent, diagnose, and investigate. Have sound knowledge and judgment providing evidence-based wound management and pressure ulcer prevention, continence management, palliative, and end-of-life care.

Full and valid driving licence and access to a car for work purposes is required. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act will be considered for the successful applicant.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

This job advertisement may close earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted.

LW staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.

About us Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we are guided by our values: kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions, and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Job responsibilities MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

5.1 Responsibility for People Management

To be responsible in the absence of the Clinical Nurse Specialist/Caseload Holder to manage own workload and delegate nursing care to appropriately skilled staff and ensure that these are supported.

To assume responsibility as delegated by a senior member of staff.

To act as a role model for all staff and students demonstrating specialist clinical skills and high standards of practice and professional conduct.

To share knowledge and information to promote a cohesive team.

To take responsibility for your own personal and professional development, maintain competence, knowledge, and skills commensurate with the role.

To assess, teach, support, and supervise colleagues including Pre-registration students and medical students.

To participate in team activities to develop and consolidate a cohesive and supportive team ensuring openness within the team.

To facilitate and participate in the development of team members, monitoring of sickness, line management, appraisals, mandatory training, competencies, clinical supervision, and staff performance as directed by the Service Lead.

To participate in the recruitment and selection of new staff.

To participate in coordinator/duty rota as required.

5.2 Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources

To exercise a duty of care in relation to the use of the organisation's equipment and resources in a cost-effective manner.

To use Livewell Southwest resources responsibly.

To work in collaboration with the budget holder; you may be required to be an authorised signatory for ordering stores, equipment, and stationery.

To ensure that all loans of equipment are monitored and maintained in good working order as per operational policy.

To monitor stock levels and ensure the supply levels are sufficient to meet the demands of the service.

To have a working knowledge of statutory and non-statutory funding and the legislation/guidance that underpins these funding streams, ensuring service users meet the eligibility criteria when advocating for/utilising services on the service users behalf (e.g. Care Act eligibility, Housing legislation, etc).

5.3 Responsibility for administration

To maintain accurate records, which are confidential, contemporaneous, legible, and all care given to be documented. These records may be paper or IT-based system and must be maintained as specified in the LWSW Policies, the relevant professional body guidelines, and Government directives.

To oversee the standard of patients' records by audit or peer review and have a regular open discussion with team members.

To complete on time and submit all necessary forms, documentation, including IT data and forward as required by the manager/organisation.

To support in the triage process accepting appropriate referrals directly from other disciplines, patients, carers, and members of the public and/or refer to other agencies where appropriate.

To be responsible for organising own time management on a daily basis in line with caseload demands balancing patient needs with the administrative aspect of the role.

To be involved in all aspects of clinical governance including audits and research.

To preserve confidentiality and be aware of GDPR, Access to Health Records, and consent to treatment.

5.4 Responsibility for people who use our services

Be responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning delivery, and evaluation of care to patients within their own homes. Implement, monitor, and maintain high standards of care delivery at all times.

To act as a patient advocate as required ensuring individual needs, preferences, and choices are delivered by the service.

Support CHC assessment and case management as part of the MDT for people at home where the community nurse is identified as the most appropriate community team member.

To be involved in all steps of a patient's journey from referral to discharge.

To undertake health promotion as requested to all age groups and contribute to planned health promotion activities e.g. NSFs, smoking cessation, and long-term conditions. To act as a resource in providing advice and support for patients, relatives, carers, and other agencies.

To have a flexible approach to the working day in order to meet the needs of the patient/service.

To support the monitoring of patient satisfaction and promote appropriate service developments.

To signpost to appropriate services, statutory and voluntary bodies.

To have good communication skills which enable you to effectively communicate with patients, their relatives, and carers about sensitive and accurate information about their condition.

To support the prevention of hospital admissions.

To undertake comprehensive risk assessments of all situations associated with the care of patients in order to ensure nurses and the carers' safety . click apply for full job details