• Job Description

  Req#: C9388-25-0617?language=en&page=502&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  If you are passionate about providing high quality individualised patient care, enthusiastic about supporting patients' rehabilitation and increasing their independence and quality of life we would like to hear from you.

  You work as a registered nurse within an integrated team, working across the community, this includes: Community Nursing, Intermediate Care and Community Matrons.

  You must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, have a Patient centred approach to care, be highly motivated and able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

  An ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information: using empathy and reassurance skills. Can provide motivational and negotiation skills in areas where consent/ co-operation is required or there may be barriers to understanding. To include undertaking best interest decisions

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  Main duties of the job

  • To deliver high quality care to the housebound patients of Torquay and work as part of multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with primary care and secondary care.
  • Patient comfort and well-being are paramount
  • Achieving agreed standards of care
  • Working as part of, and contributing effectively, as a valued team member
  • Other objectives to be discussed, set and reviewed at time of Achievement Review
  • • An ability to communicate and liaise effectively within a range of settings including:-
    • GP's
    • Primary Health and Social Care Team
    • Practice staff
    • Hospital Staff - Sisters/Nurses/Hotel Services/OT's/Physio
    • Community Staff - Health Visitors/Community Nurses/Admin Staff
    • Zone Manager
    • Macmillan Nurse

    Out of hours services:

    • Devon Docs
    • SWAST (Ambulance Service)
    • Safeguarding Team
    • Patients/families/carers
    • Third Sector Organisations
    • Care Trust Representatives
    • Nursing/Residential Homes

  About us

  Torquay Health and Well-Being Team are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients.

  We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance.

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  Details

  Date posted

  02 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  388-7148272-NMC

  Job locations

  Torquay ISU - Union House

  3rd Floor, 89 Union Street

  Torquay

  TQ1 3YA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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  Person Specification

  Qualifications and training

  Essential

  • Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

  Desirable

  • Community Nurse Prescriber V150
  • Diabetes course
  • Palliative Care Course
  • Mentorship Course
  • Tissue Viability/ Leg Ulcer course
  • Experience of continuing health care assessments.
  • Experience of COPD or Heart Failure

  Knowledge and experience

  Essential

  • Proven relevant experience in a range of clinical skills
  • Relevant I.T. knowledge/experience
  • Awareness of safeguarding adults and children
  • Awareness of mental capacity act.
  • Holistic client assessment using an identified model of care
  • Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
  • To maintain timely and accurate written records
  • To manage/prioritise a caseload, demonstrating appropriate delegation
  • Ability to demonstrate relevant team worker experience
  • Knowledge of principles of Research and Audit
  • Proven relevant experience in communicate complex information to patients, carers, and health and social care staff

  Desirable

  • Health and Safety awareness
  • Equality and diversity awareness
  • Understands clinical governance
  • Awareness of local and government agendas
  • Previous experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment

  Specific Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to demonstrate good time management skills

  Desirable

  • Willing to undertake V150 community practitioner prescribing course
  • Palliative care skills
  • Understands clinical supervision and able to demonstrate relevance to practice

  Person Specification

  Qualifications and training

  Essential

  • Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

  Desirable

  • Community Nurse Prescriber V150
  • Diabetes course
  • Palliative Care Course
  • Mentorship Course
  • Tissue Viability/ Leg Ulcer course
  • Experience of continuing health care assessments.
  • Experience of COPD or Heart Failure

  Knowledge and experience

  Essential

  • Proven relevant experience in a range of clinical skills
  • Relevant I.T. knowledge/experience
  • Awareness of safeguarding adults and children
  • Awareness of mental capacity act.
  • Holistic client assessment using an identified model of care
  • Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
  • To maintain timely and accurate written records
  • To manage/prioritise a caseload, demonstrating appropriate delegation
  • Ability to demonstrate relevant team worker experience
  • Knowledge of principles of Research and Audit
  • Proven relevant experience in communicate complex information to patients, carers, and health and social care staff

  Desirable

  • Health and Safety awareness
  • Equality and diversity awareness
  • Understands clinical governance
  • Awareness of local and government agendas
  • Previous experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment

  Specific Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to demonstrate good time management skills

  Desirable

  • Willing to undertake V150 community practitioner prescribing course
  • Palliative care skills
  • Understands clinical supervision and able to demonstrate relevance to practice

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Torquay ISU - Union House

  3rd Floor, 89 Union Street

  Torquay

  TQ1 3YA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Torquay ISU - Union House

  3rd Floor, 89 Union Street

  Torquay

  TQ1 3YA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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