District Nurse - Band 6 / Senior Community Nurse

Job Introduction
As a Band 6 District/Community Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Farnham Community Nursing Team, at Farnham Hospital, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £37,338 - £44,962 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 District Nurse / Community Nurse to join our Farnham Community Nursing Team to help us continue to change things for the better.
The Farnham Community Nursing team is based at Farnham Hospital and covers Farnham and surrounding areas. They are a highly supportive team who are happy to develop an aspiring Band 5 nurse into a Band 6.
They are also able to offer flexible working to provide a good work-life balance.

The community nursing team covers 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. The shifts include a mixture of 8am to 4pm, 9am to 5pm and 12pm to 8pm, weekend and Bank Holiday working.

Main Responsibilities
Within this role you will:

• Provide leadership and management to your team.
• Have responsibility for your caseload and have skills and competencies to provide excellent patient care in their homes.
• Undertake full nursing assessments of patients, including those with multiple co-morbidities and complex health and social needs.
• Be responsible for agreeing the patient’s care plan, liaising with others and adapting the care and treatment delivered according to need and patient choice.
• Work with the Integrated care system and MDT to provide holistic care for your patients.
• 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.
• Care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best.
• Deliver our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.

The Ideal Candidate
You will be a NMC/1st level registered Nurse preferably with some community experience. You will have the ability to work both independently and also as part of a wider multidisciplinary team. It is expected that you should have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach which will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes. You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and have working knowledge of an iPad which is used for mobile working.

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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