Community Staff Nurse

Job Overview

We are seeking a compassionate and motivated Community Staff Nurse to join our dynamic and supportive Farnborough community nursing team. This exciting role involves delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in their own homes, offering variety and autonomy in your daily practice.

As a Community Staff Nurse, you will provide holistic nursing care, supporting patients with a range of conditions, including wound care, diabetic management, catheter care, and palliative care. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, accessing specialist support as required to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Who We’re Looking For:

• NMC Registered Nurse with enthusiasm, energy, and a passion for delivering high standards of care.
• While community experience is not essential, an understanding of autonomous working in the community setting and transferable skills are desirable.
• If you are looking for a change or due to qualify this post may be ideal for you.
  
  

Main duties of the job

• Deliver Skilled Nursing Care: Provide high-quality, evidence-based nursing care, ensuring best practice principles are followed.
• Comprehensive Patient Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments of patients’ physical, psychological, and social needs, including carers’ requirements. Develop individualised, person-centred care plans that promote self-care and help prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Care Planning and Continuity: Under the supervision of the District Nursing (DN) Team Lead and Community Nursing Sister, take ongoing responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of holistic healthcare needs. Ensure continuity of care following referrals from acute settings, GPs, carers, and other agencies.
• Problem Identification and Escalation: Identify and document new problems or changes in condition, reporting findings to the Band 6 nurse as appropriate.
• Accurate Record Keeping: Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and contemporaneous electronic records in line with Trust and NMC guidelines. Full training on the use of electronic record systems will be provided.
• Liaison and Referrals: Liaise effectively with GPs, other services, and agencies, ensuring timely and appropriate referrals to optimise patient care.
• Patient and Carer Support: Provide information, guidance, and emotional support to patients, families, and carers to promote positive health outcomes.
  
  

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

Skills include but are not limited to: and training will be provided including access to the preceptorship course and other in-house training.

• Autonomous Practice: Ability to work independently, managing your own caseload and making informed clinical decisions.
• Diabetic Management: Blood sugar monitoring, insulin administration, with access to a specialist diabetic nursing team.
• Tissue Viability/Wound Care: Leg ulcer management, compression therapy, doppler assessments, VAC dressings, pressure ulcer care, and post-surgical wound management. Supported by a specialist tissue viability team.
• Bladder and Bowel Care: Male, female, and suprapubic catheterisation, bowel care, and continence assessments.
• IV Medication Administration: Care of PICC/midline, preparation, and administration of IV medications.
• Palliative Care: Symptom management, support visits, administration of anticipatory medications (stat doses and syringe drivers), with access to a specialist community palliative care team.
• Drain Care: Management of JVAC, lantern drains, and Pleurex drains.
  
  

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more information.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Has previously worked in other areas of nursing / or a student nurse
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Student nurse placement
• Interests in community nursing
  
  

Courses undertaken

Essential criteria

• Catheter care
• Wound care
• EOL care
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of CPD training
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Has NMC registration
• Is newly qualifed
• Previous experience of community nursing / student nurse placement
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Catheter care training
• End of life care experience
• Wound care knowledge
  
  

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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