Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

Job Overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Nurse or District Nurse (SPQ) to join our Community Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate nurse with strong leadership skills, a warm personality, and excellent interpersonal abilities to help shape and deliver high-quality care in the community.

As a Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in managing a caseload of housebound patients with complex nursing needs, ensuring care is safe, effective, and evidence-based. You will work closely with the Team Leader, providing clinical leadership and support to colleagues, acting as a role model, and driving the development of innovative practice to meet the changing needs of community healthcare.

The successful candidate will have proven post-registration experience with community nursing skills and competencies, or transferable experience suited to the role. You will also bring effective management skills to support caseload management and contribute to service development.

This is a rewarding role where you will make a meaningful difference to patients, their families, and carers, while supporting and inspiring staff through learning, sharing best practice, and promoting professional growth.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work are essential. Mileage will be reimbursed in line with the Trust’s expenses policy.

Main duties of the job

• The role of the B6 Community Sister/District nurse/charge nurse to manage the day to day running of a community nursing team in conjunction with the Team Leader.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the community nursing team are functioning at a high level providing excellent patient care for patients who are on the community nursing team caseload.
• The post holder will be part of a supportive team of other B6 across the other teams covering the north east of Hampshire providing a 7 day service covering the hours of 8am to 8am
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• The post holder will effectively manage the community nursing team day to day
• Undertake holistic assessments of patient new to the community nursing service
• Complete assessments such as Purpose T, MUST/MUAC, wound assessments for all patients on the caseload and ensure that all staff members are completing these assessments.
• Manage chronic wounds such as leg ulcers, pressure ulcers using best practice and NICE guidlines
• Manage short term wounds such as surgical wounds
• Manage patients with JVAC drains, lantern drains, pig tail drains and flushes when required.
• Care for PICC lines and chemotherapy disconnections – Full training will be given.
• Care for other central lines such as Mid lines, portacaths – Full training will be given.
• Undertake the administration of intravenous antibiotics in the community, bolus or infusion.
• Ensure patients on the community nursing caseload have pressure relieving equipment in place or referred to the appropriate service for additional pressure relieving equipment for specialist items.
• Liaise with the patients GP when needed and communicate effectively with the GP practice to build relationships with our GP colleagues.
• Be part of the Integrated care team, attending weekly MDT meetings in the absence of a community matron.
• Be the patients advocate when needed.
  
  

Refer to person specification and detailed job description for more information.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post qualified RN
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Able to use electronic patient records.
• Support Patient and Person-Centered Care
  
  

Desirable criteria

• District Nurse SPQ
  
  

Current and previous experience

Essential criteria

• Current experience
• Catheter care
• End of life care
  
  

Leadership experience

Essential criteria

• Qualified RN
• Leadership skills from current role
  
  

Desirable criteria

• District nurse SPQ
• Previous B6 role
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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