This Band 5 Community Registered Nurse post sits in the East Integrated Neighbourhood Team within Camden Integrated Community Healthcare, based at Kentish Town Health Centre. The work centres on nursing care for housebound patients, including assessment, care planning and support for a designated caseload. It is full-time in a seven-day service, with work across Camden’s district nursing service as needed and links to specialist teams. Adult NMC registration and availability to work across seven days are required; community experience is not essential.
What the job involves
- Provide nursing interventions and high-quality care to housebound patients, managing a designated caseload
- Assess patients holistically, review their nursing needs and develop, implement and evaluate care plans
- Deliver community nursing care including diabetes management, wound and tissue viability care, catheterisation and bowel care, IV medication, palliative care and drain care
- Work with nursing, therapy and other health and social care colleagues, including specialist teams and general practice
- Work across Camden’s district nursing service according to service needs
- Keep patients safe through sound clinical skills and effective assessments
- Recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns involving adults or children, seek help when needed and escalate concerns
- Raise safety concerns and advocate for patients
- Supervise junior staff and students, and act as a mentor to healthcare assistants, nursing associates and students
- Maintain accurate, legible and comprehensive records, including electronic patient records
- Reflect on practice, identify improvements and contribute to continuous improvement in safety and quality
- Keep mandatory training up to date
What’s required
Qualifications
- Numeracy skills for safe medicine administration
- Evidence of ongoing relevant continuing professional development
- Willingness to undertake further study as required
Registration & licences
- Adult nurse registration with the NMC
Skills & knowledge
- Communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team by phone and in person, use handovers, and write letters and reports
- Maintain electronic patient records and use Microsoft Office
- Understand how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards affect practice
- Mentor healthcare assistants, nursing associates and students
- Assess patients and develop, implement and evaluate care plans
- Understand diversity and equality in practice; organise workload without direct supervision
Other
- Work across a seven-day week
Nice to have
- Community experience as a student or in a substantive role
What’s offered
- Relocation package for eligible staff
- Inner London weighting
- Training and career development
- Opportunities for research and audit
- Flexible working patterns
- Opportunities for progression
- Preceptorship, regular supervision and in-house learning and development
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