Community Nurse in Tewkesbury

To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential. Please note a full driving licence and use of a vehicle for work purposes are essential for this role as a Community Nurse.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess patient and carer needs through strength-based assessment.
• Develop individual care plans in partnership with patients and carers, including information, advice, sign-posting and education.
• Regularly evaluate care plans to ensure they are up to date and appropriate, reporting clinical changes or areas of concern to the appropriate member of the team.
• Provide skilled nursing care interventions, support and advice to colleagues, patients and carers.
• Work to reduce unwarranted variation in clinical practice, providing evidence-based interventions which effectively enable people.
• Discuss issues relating to care and support of individual patients with other disciplines and agencies, and refer to those who can better meet their needs.
• Collaborate with colleagues in the Integrated Community Teams and other aligned services to enable people within their communities, maximising their potential and promoting their independence.
• Administer and monitor medications consistent with policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the prioritisation of workload, taking responsibility for a delegated caseload of patients.
• Assist in providing consistently high standards of evidence-based care that meets the patients' requirements and satisfaction.
• Maintain accurate patient documentation on the electronic clinical recording system.
• Respond appropriately to feedback from patients and carers about the service, using the open approach of the organisation and within Duty of Candour expectations.
• When suitably experienced, act as a clinical triage nurse within the centralised Community Nursing referral centres, providing clinical review of patients and engaging with health and care professionals to enable effective patient flow and referral management.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme, we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026). Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.

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