Community Staff Nurse

Community Services -- District Nursing Teams Gateshead

BAND 5 - Community Staff Nurse

We wish to recruit a band 5 Community Staff Nurse to join West Locality Team in Gateshead. The locality teams are multi professional working in collaboration to ensure safe, highly effective patient care.

This post will provide an exciting opportunity to deliver a high quality service to patients in Gateshead.

You will need to be motivated, organised and flexible. The service hours are 8am – 8pm, 7 days per week. You will be expected to work flexibly to deliver service needs.

You must be a registered nurse. Post registration experience and ongoing professional development are desirable.

It would also be desirable to have evidence of experience in a community setting.

Full time and 30 hour post available

The delivery of high standards of clinical practice that hold patients and their families at the center to ensure that they receive safe, quality care that gives them a good experience.
To be responsible for delivery of an identified package of care under the supervision and direction of Specialist Nurse Practitioner/District Nurse/Locality Team Lead.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the BAME network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our armed forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

To provide high quality patient care in the community setting under the direction and supervision of a senior nurse/practitioner.

To provide hands on care to patients in a variety of settings within the community

To maintain standards of care through evaluating and implementing evidence based practice

To delegate work appropriately according to skill mix ensuring maintenance of safety within the community.

To support the development of other staff and the service provided.

To support the assessment of the health and health related needs of patients, clients, their families and other carers.

To treat specific diseases in accordance with agreed medical protocols under direction of the senior practitioner.

To assess, plan, provide and evaluate nursing care to meet care needs of individual patients and carers in their own homes.

To analyse and evaluate personal clinical performance in a reflective manner to ensure continued personal and professional development and the maintenance of an up-to-date knowledge base.

To work with Trust policies and procedures that ensure patient safety at all times.

To work independently under direction within a multi-disciplinary of an integrated workforce that is based in the community and is designed to meet the health needs of the identified locality.