Community Nurse

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
• To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
• To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
• To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
• To effectively communicate verbally with patients, carers and colleagues using tact and persuasive skills. This may involve using skills where patients have difficulties in communication, e.g., hearing loss, diminished sight, depression, speech problems, cognitive impairment, behavioural problems, and pain.
• To work effectively within the team structure and liaise appropriately with members of the MDT and other agencies by attending MDT meetings, case reviews.
• To ensure that accurate and timely written records are kept which comply with the Trust policy and NMC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RGN Level 1, RGN level 2
• Evidence of professional development

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship qualification or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Community Experience

Skills and abilites

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care & service provision
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
• Good documentation skills
• Computer/ IT skills
• Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential criteria

• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
• Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with the client group

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
• Flexibility to work over seven days per week

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visi

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