Band 6

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest community healthcare provider in Sussex.

• Over 8,400 full time, part time and bank staff members
• Medical, nursing and therapeutic care provided to over 10,000 children and adults a day
• July 2018 Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features
• Flexible working patterns offered across all services
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader

SCFT is an inclusive employer that promotes equality and challenges discrimination, and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, disabled candidates and LGBT+ candidates are particularly encouraged, to ensure the Trust's workforce reflects the diverse communities it serves.

Job overview

Senior Staff Nurse - 37.5 hours per week

Are you a registered nurse looking for an exciting and proactive team to work in?

Do you aspire to the provision of high standards of care, ensuring your patients have the right care in the right place at the right time?

In which case, the Responsive Services (Including Hospital @ Home and Community IV team) in Brighton and Hove is the place for you!!

Main duties of the job

Our services focus on avoidable attendances or admissions to the acute hospital, and early supported discharges from the acute hospital. We are committed to the ethos of the best place for patients to be is at home, and provide rapid assessment and short term care, support and treatment, including reablement and assessment longer term care needs.

As a registered Nurse within the services you will have the opportunity work within the urgent community response, community IV and our Hospital at Home teams, providing a wide range of nursing interventions and care, we provide

• Holistic assessment and care planning for patients with complex health and social care needs,
• Post-surgical wound care
• Short term reablement
• Patient and carer education and support to enable self-care

Our teams are supported by a Practice Development Nurse and an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. You will need to be a car driver, but previous community experience is not necessary. The Trust values, Clinical Supervision and Personal Development Reviews and provides a varied internal training programme alongside external opportunities such as apprenticeship opportunities, and we are proud to be able to provide support for both experienced and newly qualified nurses who feel that this opportunity is for them.

Working for our organisation

 Positive 2020 NHS Staff Survey results
 The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rates our quality of services as good
with outstanding features
 Stunning locations in Sussex, surrounded by the South Downs and the coast
 A great working environment in the community, in patients' homes and our
community hospitals
 Excellent training and development opportunities
 Real Living Wage Employer with great rates of pay
 Flexible working options, including job sharing, annualised hours, career
breaks, parental leave and adoption leave
 Supportive team environments
 Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries
 Thriving BAME, Disability, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
 Disability Confident Employer, committed to creating inclusive workplaces

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job summary

The holistic assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing of care
provision, for people referred to the Responsive Service. Providing clinical
expertise and problem solving support for the nursing team. Providing clinical care for patients requiring nursing care. Co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team, allocating visits as appropriate. Development of the service through reflective practice; clinical supervision & audit. The identification of suitable people referred to the service for planned early discharge from hospital or for the prevention of admission to the acute sector or long term care.

Please see job description and person spec attached for more information.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• RN Level 1
• Evidence of Post Registration Study

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship / ENB 998

Experience
Essential criteria

• At least 2 years experience at Band 5
• Holistic Assessments
• NHS Experience
• Community Experience

Desirable criteria

• Management / Supervision Experience
• Evidence of Audit
• Evidence of Research in practice

Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria

• Ability to work as member of team
• Good communication skills
• Well developed assessment skills
• Decision making skills
• Organisational / Management skills
• Awareness of inter-agency working
• Understands inter-agency liaison
• Community nursing
• Catheter skills

Desirable criteria

• Cannulation
• Venepuncture skills
• Knowledge of respiratory conditions / nursing
• Knowledge of orthopaedic surgery
• Administration of intravenous therapy
• General surgical knowledge

Other Requirements
Essential criteria

• Car driver / owner and car available for work
• Evidence of well-developed interpersonal skills
• Willingness to present a positive image of the Trust
• Insight & understanding of care in the community
• Ability to work flexibly, including participating in a rota system covering a 7 day-a-week working pattern
• demonstrate a basic understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to the post.

This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.

Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please ensure that you check your emails, including your junk folder, on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically as well; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification ( PDF , 741.3 KB )
• Staff Benefits Brochure ( PDF , 484.5 KB )