Community Staff Nurse - Evening & Nights

We are seeking a new Evening and Night Nurse to work in an already established team. We have vacancies in both the North/South Nottinghamshire team. We cover:

• South Nottinghamshire (Rushcliffe/Nottingham North/East, Nottingham West)
• North Nottinghamshire (Mansfield/Ashfield/Newark/Sherwood)
• Bassetlaw

We work closely with our Urgent Community Response teams to ensure the right clinician attends the right urgent response during the evening and night-time, maintaining safety and delivering nursing care when needed.

Our service is fast-paced during the out-of-hours period with a 2–4-hour response time, covering the nursing elements within the UCR clinical conditions. This includes urgent end-of-life care, continence care, catheter care, and wound care needs overnight.

As the service transforms, we are looking for dynamic, autonomous practitioners with excellent communication skills who can be confident, organised, adaptable, reliable, and approachable. You’ll be working independently in patients’ homes, collaborating with UCR services and the out-of-hours GP provider to ensure the right team attends to the patient to fulfil their urgent nursing needs.

Our team is mixed with nurses and community support workers, working in partnership with the community nursing day teams and UCR to provide a seamless nursing service to patients from 6pm to 8am, putting the patient at the centre of their care and providing effective patient care.

The objective of our evening and night service is to deliver good clinical outcomes for patients in partnership with day services and UCR across the whole health community. We aim to co-ordinate a shared care approach for patients across primary and community care, avoiding duplication and effectively managing resources to provide timely access. The main focus is admission avoidance, proactively identifying patients at risk of hospital admissions or readmissions, and providing support and care to patients and their families during the out-of-hours period.

You will:

• Assess, plan, implement, promote, and evaluate safe, creative, and effective treatment plans in collaboration with the patients’ diverse needs, their carers, and other professionals.
• Provide realistic, timely, and occasionally intensive support to patients within a community setting.
• Provide education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals.
• Ensure interventions are evidence-based, designed to reduce stress and anxiety, manage risk, and aid recovery.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and relevant clinical records both written and computerized, ensuring the safe custody of healthcare records.

The post holder will need to be flexible and work across services as required.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including:

• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups
• The Green Champions network
• The Freedom to Speak Up network
• The Health and Wellbeing Champions network
• The Menopause Champions network

These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity. The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority, and we invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.