Community Nurse

Come and join our Integrated Community Team of Nursing and Therapy staff at Chandlers Ford ICT

We are a busy, friendly team who welcome new team members. We are seeking either newly qualified and or experienced nurses to provide complex care and treatment to adults living in the area who have long-term or complex health needs. You will work in a multi-disciplinary way alongside a number of specialist services, including those in the community, social and voluntary services. The team has good relationships with primary care colleagues which you would be expected to maintain.

To support you within your role, we have an excellent learning and development programme to help further develop your clinical and leadership skills. We are committed to support the development of your career and have a competency-based approach to clinical training and development which will ensure you are able to apply your newly developed skills in a safe and effective way.

Our aim is to provide high quality, safe services which improve the health, wellbeing and independence of the people we care for. We deliver these services to our community so you will feel a real sense of achievement and that your work makes a difference to local peoples' lives.

You will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating your allocated work on a day-to-day basis ensuring patients are cared for and prioritised according to clinical need and that holistic assessment and care plans are recorded in line with the Trusts' standards.

Main duties of the job

Working within Professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have

responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload (via Nursing,

Mental Health, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy interventions) for a group of

GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holder will have responsibility for managing, co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and

professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary

admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the

community. The post holder will also have a responsibility for re-enablement,

rehabilitation, health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce

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