Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity for a Community Nurse to join the Community Assessment Unit (CAU) at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and the Urgent Care Response (UCR) team in the community. The post is a 37.5 hour-per-week substantive post covering the Fareham and Gosport Area, with the understanding that support will be provided to Petersfield CAU from time to time.
You will be working within the outpatient Community Assessment Unit clinic setting at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and in the community setting where you will be responding to the urgent care needs of service users in their own homes.
This is an excellent opportunity if you enjoy having varied work experience and want to broaden your knowledge and skills in both a clinic and community setting. This role is critical to preventing hospital admissions as part of the Ageing Well agenda and monitoring patients in their own home as part of the UCR virtual ward.
As the role will be delivered in patients' homes and clinic-based settings, you will be working closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
The Trust is committed to improving the quality of community health services across Hampshire and takes pride in rewarding the success of its staff. To this end the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills to fulfil their role comprehensively.
Car owner with a full driving license and business insurance is essential.
Upholding all standards as identified by the NMC including the Code of Professional conduct, Documentation and Medicines Management or equivalent according to job title. The post holder will work as an active member of the Community Frailty Team for the Fareham and Gosport Community Assessment Unit and provide a high quality, efficient and effective service to patients.
To assist in the delivery of effective and timely assessments for patients who are within the speciality of frailty. To work alongside Consultant Geriatricians, GPs with Specialist Interest, Nurses, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists to provide a high standard of individualised nursing care in accordance with agreed policies and utilising an evidence-based approach. To be responsible for the assessment of patients' needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of planned treatment.
The post holder will be a Registered clinician and will continue to develop their role through the acquisition of further skills, knowledge, and competencies to be determined by the needs of the patients, the service, and the team.
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
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.
BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC.
Practice assessor/supervisor.
Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
Current (UK/EU) Driving Licence and access to own vehicle for work purposes is required.
History Taking and Physical Assessment Course or a willingness to work towards this in the future.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
