Senior Community Nurse

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Nurse to join our friendly and supportive Community Nursing Team., This is an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse with excellent clinical and leadership skills to provide high-quality care to patients within their own homes and community settings. You will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with complex health needs, carrying out holistic assessments, planning and evaluating care, and working collaboratively with patients, families and partner agencies., As a Senior Community Nurse, you will provide clinical leadership and support to the wider nursing team, helping to maintain high standards of patient care, quality and safety. You will play a key role in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, supporting timely discharge from hospital and enabling patients to remain independent within their own homes whenever possible.,

• Monitor the quality of care planning, implementation and evaluation to ensure optimum quality is maintained
• Ensure that medicines in your area are handled and administered according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.
• Inform the Community Matron of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care
• Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients' needs
• Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.
• Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care
• Ensure that discharge and transfer planning for patients is done in a proactive and interdisciplinary manner
• Practice, role model and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice
• Practice, role model and promote safe and effective recording in line with trust policies and professional standards
• Encourage a culture of patient wellness and coproduction
• Demonstrate, care, compassion, competence, effective communication, courage and commitment with all patients and carers
  
  The successful candidate will be an effective communicator, able to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will be committed to delivering compassionate, person-centred care and supporting continuous service improvement.
In return, we offer a supportive working environment, regular supervision, professional development opportunities and the chance to make a real difference to the lives of patients within the local community. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes are essential.

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