Neighbourhood Staff Nurse

The post-holder will be a member of the Neighbourhood Nursing (District Nursing) Team and will participate in the clinical case management of patients who have a wide variety of complex, high-risk and supported/self-care conditions. Working directly with the Team Leader, the post-holder will help ensure the provision of a high standard of nursing care and health promotion. The care will be provided in a range of settings including patients' homes, residential homes, nurse led clinics and GP practices. This will include: - Holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a plan of care for patients with long term conditions, tissue viability, continence, palliative care, and promoting/facilitating patient independence. - Assists in the delivery of National Service Frameworks. - Providing public health and health promotion programmes to improve health and reduce inequalities. - Maintaining contemporaneous written and computerised records., Please refer to the attached Job Description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.

• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of post registration education and training.
• Practise assessor/supervisor or old mentorship qualification or SSSAP.
Qualifications / Education,
• Registered Nurse (General Adult)
• Education to 1st degree level or equivalent
• Clinical specific post registration course e.g. Wound management, diabetes, leg ulcer care, continence care and assessment, Extensive experience in care of people with long term conditions in a community or primary healthcare setting.
• Experience in care of people with long term conditions, Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
• Ability to demonstrate evidence-based care and decision making that is responsive to the needs of clients and carers and negotiated in partnership with them
• Competent in basic life support
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner being responsible and accountable for choices made
• Ability to work flexibly and respond to changing demands in workload
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation, with patients, relatives and their carers and other agencies.
• Ability to write detailed reports, maintain contemporaneous patient records and other documents that exhibit fluency and accuracy., Skilled in the provision of hands on direct patient care, including safe handling of patients and equipment
  
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We are proud that we care for our staff as much as our patients. We ensure that our staff are supported and are the only Trust in the UK to offer a Transition Programme which gives our nurses the knowledge and skills to take their care to the community. Once you have joined the Trust, this programme will ensure that you are fully able to provide outstanding care to our patients in the community., Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.