Role Summary
• To assess, provide and review Nursing care, advice and information to patients and carers within the home environment or appropriate care setting in line with their Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF).
• Aim to wherever possible maintain patients in their own preferred place of care, enabling them to maximise their independence and optimise their quality of life.
• To work under the direction of the Specialist Nurse (Community) and the Nurse Team Manager (Community) using their skills and knowledge as a Registered Nurse.
• To be expected to hold a designated caseload and deputise in the absence of the Specialist Nurse (Community).
About the Role
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More about the role
Are you looking for a nursing role that allows a fantastic work life balance, a role that is dynamic and varied? If so we have the perfect opportunity for you.
This is not your average nursing role as our community nursing service offers a work life balance meaning that you work only one weekend per month and core hours of 08:30-17:00, including bank holidays. We encourage conversations to ensure that flexible working is considered as we fully appreciate the demands of life outside of work.
This is an exciting time to be joining our community nursing teams within Exeter Central and East.
Central and East Community Nurses have recently established a HUB coordination point, where all the nurses are based within the same building at Whipton Hospital, along with our social care, urgent care and reablement colleagues, meaning that there is a wide support base at your fingertips.
We are a friendly and supportive team looking for highly motivated RNs who possess strong communication skills to engage patients, families, GPs and the wider multi professional team using a variety of platforms including MyCare, email, telephone and GP patient systems.
We believe that self-development is fundamental to nursing and we encourage our staff to access further training, be that clinical or academic to further extend your knowledge and skills to be able to enhance the delivery of service to our patients and the community. We are successfully supporting our nurses to obtain the Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing, including enhanced clinical assessment and non-medical prescribing. Several of the team have undertaken university modules of their choice to enhance the service including diabetes, tissue viability and end of life. Career progression within community nursing is supported, with opportunities to develop to a clinical nurse specialist, nurse team manager, associate community matron and community matron.
Your role will be pivotal within the local community by making a difference to our patients. Treating patients in their own home can prevent hospital admission and can assist with early discharge. You will be supported in obtaining these specialist community skills, including complex wound care, administration of medication, syringe pumps, catheter management and many more. As a community nurse no day is the same and you will meet patients with varying needs. Lone working is an essential part of the job role. You will be allocated a buddy, have a work mobile phone and have the training and support to ensure that you feel able to undertake this, with daily supervision during patient safety handover.
You will be provided with all the equipment to be able to undertake your job role, including laptop, mobile phone, and all appropriate clinical equipment.
If you need any more reasons to apply……
- Based at Whipton Hospital which is close to the M5 and A30 and offers free parking and located centrally within Exeter to be able to undertake clinical visits with your own car
- Protected meal breaks
- Full kitchen facilities with access to hot and cold drinks
- Access to peer support and mentorship
- Flexible working, reasonable adjustments considered with clear working patterns and off duty in advance
- Overtime available
This is on top of the generous benefits already offered by the Royal Devon University Hospital.
We welcome you to come and meet the team and even spend a few hours to see what community nursing can offer you.
This is not your average nursing role as our community nursing service offers a work life balance meaning that you work only one weekend per month and core hours of 08:30-17:00, including bank holidays. We encourage conversations to ensure that flexible working is considered as we fully appreciate the demands of life outside of work.
Working Pattern: 08.30 - 16.30
For further information please contact Karen Tetley, Community Nurse Team manager on 07557139346 karen.tetley@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
