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Job Description
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- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
- Registered Nurse or equivalent NMC registration
- Good verbal and written skills and understanding of English to IELTS level
- Practice Assessor or willingness to undertake PA training
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Able to demonstrate the ability to write personalised patient care plans through holistic assessment and implement and evaluate care in line with contemporary practice.
- Knowledge of the role of the Community Health Care Team
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Knowledge of DH initiatives regarding Long Term Conditions
- Ability to facilitate learning for students
- Registered Nurse or equivalent NMC registration
- Good verbal and written skills and understanding of English to IELTS level
- Practice Assessor or willingness to undertake PA training
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Able to demonstrate the ability to write personalised patient care plans through holistic assessment and implement and evaluate care in line with contemporary practice.
- Knowledge of the role of the Community Health Care Team
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Knowledge of DH initiatives regarding Long Term Conditions
- Ability to facilitate learning for students
Job summary
Community Staff Nurse - District Nursing - Bank Band 5
As a qualified registered nurse you will be working across teams in either Bexley or Greenwich to deliver excellent nursing care in the community in patients homes and residential units. We will assign you to work across 2 core teams, but from time to time ask you to support in other teams.
We are able to offer flexibility in the choice of shifts available and are able to guarantee shifts for a long-term period with the service due to existing vacancies. We provide our bank staff with training and development opportunities in the same way we do our substantive staff and encourage you to develop your clinical skills within a supportive environment.
You will be required to understand and adhere to all Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Working as a bank nurse provides you with an opportunity to experience working across teams with support from specialist nurses including Diabetes and Tissue Viability teams. We also have practice development nurses in End of Life care to support your practice.
Our bank workforce is highly valued and is an essential component of successful service delivery for our teams.
Main duties of the job
As a community staff nurse in District Nursing you will undertake the following interventions for patients in the community:
Wound management
Lower leg wound care
Pressure Ulcer care
Bladder and Bowel Management
Administration of medication
Diabetes Care
Nutrition management
PICC Line care
Phlebotomy
End of life care
Where your competencies need updating in these tasks we will support you to develop these so that you are able to deliver the full range of interventions.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
Date posted
28 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£37,173 a year pa pro-rata inc. hcas
Contract
Bank
Working pattern
Flexible working
Reference number
277-DistrictNurseBank-I
Job locations
181 Goldie Leigh
Lodge Hill
London
SE2 0AS
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
To participate and provide support and health education programmes for patients, carers, and families.
To establish professional relationships with patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
To ensure own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust guidelines.
To provide evidence-based care to patients, assess and formulate personalised care plans, and implement and evaluate care
Work to NMC Guidelines and maintain professionalism at all times.
To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the Community Health Services as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
Management responsibilities
To prioritise clinical workload according to patient need.
To report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or near misses promptly and when required, to co-operate with any investigation undertaken.
To demonstrate efficient and effective use of resources within own practice.
To attend and participate in clinical supervision in line with Trust policy.
To understand and adhere to all Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust policies procedures and guidelines.
To demonstrate an awareness of health care delivery systems and the local and national priorities of health care delivery, e.g. Intermediate Care, Frailty, Poly Pharmacy and acute and chronic ill health conditions.
To actively participate in the Professional Development Review (PDR) process and ensure training needs are addressed.
To maintain NMC registration.
Leadership
Complies with the NMC Code of Conduct & PREP requirements
To be accountable to line manager and professional leads.
To act as a mentor/preceptor to new staff, students and other non-registered team members and support them to achieve their learning objectives.
Clinical
To work under supervision during induction period and identify any learning in own competencies to undertake the role.
Work/Liaise with other nursing team members to ensure that plans of nursing care are carried out to the agreed standard.
To demonstrate evidence of comprehensive nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patient/client.
To work within a clinical effectiveness framework using evidence-based practice, research and audit to plan implement and evaluate care.
To share good practice in order to improve standards of care.
To assist in the development and evaluation of teaching programmes for students and other care workers.
For nurses working in the community, to develop and achieve baseline skills, for example venepuncture, intravenous medication administration, Doppler assessments, ear syringing and the use of syringe drivers.
Research
To be aware of and keep up to date with current research-based evidence.
To participate in research, audit or quality assurance projects as required and provide evidence-based care.
Communication
To ensure effective communication with patients and their carers, including the provision of patient education, health promotion and emotional support where appropriate.
To ensure effective communication with senior nursing staff and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
To record treatment and care carried out in the patients/clients homes on appropriate documentation. Records must be kept up to date and accurate in accordance with trust policies.
Ensure that all relevant information regarding patients is documented and where appropriate reported and acted upon immediately.
To provide accurate written and verbal reports as required.
To keep a diary for the purpose of planning work and recording all visits, both effective and non-effective.
To maintain confidentiality of information relating to patients, staff and organisation.
To have the ability to interpret sensitive information and communicate with a sympathetic and empathic approach to patient-centred care.
To be able to work appropriately with any barriers to communication: older people, physical disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.
Job responsibilities
To participate and provide support and health education programmes for patients, carers, and families.
To establish professional relationships with patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
To ensure own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust guidelines.
To provide evidence-based care to patients, assess and formulate personalised care plans, and implement and evaluate care
Work to NMC Guidelines and maintain professionalism at all times.
To work flexibly and relieve colleagues/ rotate within the Community Health Services as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
Management responsibilities
To prioritise clinical workload according to patient need.
To report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or near misses promptly and when required, to co-operate with any investigation undertaken.
To demonstrate efficient and effective use of resources within own practice.
To attend and participate in clinical supervision in line with Trust policy.
To understand and adhere to all Oxleas Foundation NHS Trust policies procedures and guidelines.
To demonstrate an awareness of health care delivery systems and the local and national priorities of health care delivery, e.g. Intermediate Care, Frailty, Poly Pharmacy and acute and chronic ill health conditions.
To actively participate in the Professional Development Review (PDR) process and ensure training needs are addressed.
To maintain NMC registration.
Leadership
Complies with the NMC Code of Conduct & PREP requirements
To be accountable to line manager and professional leads.
To act as a mentor/preceptor to new staff, students and other non-registered team members and support them to achieve their learning objectives.
Clinical
To work under supervision during induction period and identify any learning in own competencies to undertake the role.
Work/Liaise with other nursing team members to ensure that plans of nursing care are carried out to the agreed standard.
To demonstrate evidence of comprehensive nursing assessment and documentation of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patient/client.
To work within a clinical effectiveness framework using evidence-based practice, research and audit to plan implement and evaluate care.
To share good practice in order to improve standards of care.
To assist in the development and evaluation of teaching programmes for students and other care workers.
For nurses working in the community, to develop and achieve baseline skills, for example venepuncture, intravenous medication administration, Doppler assessments, ear syringing and the use of syringe drivers.
Research
To be aware of and keep up to date with current research-based evidence.
To participate in research, audit or quality assurance projects as required and provide evidence-based care.
Communication
To ensure effective communication with patients and their carers, including the provision of patient education, health promotion and emotional support where appropriate.
To ensure effective communication with senior nursing staff and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
To record treatment and care carried out in the patients/clients homes on appropriate documentation. Records must be kept up to date and accurate in accordance with trust policies.
Ensure that all relevant information regarding patients is documented and where appropriate reported and acted upon immediately.
To provide accurate written and verbal reports as required.
To keep a diary for the purpose of planning work and recording all visits, both effective and non-effective.
To maintain confidentiality of information relating to patients, staff and organisation.
To have the ability to interpret sensitive information and communicate with a sympathetic and empathic approach to patient-centred care.
To be able to work appropriately with any barriers to communication: older people, physical disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Education/Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure 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).
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
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
181 Goldie Leigh
Lodge Hill
London
SE2 0AS
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
181 Goldie Leigh
Lodge Hill
London
SE2 0AS
Employer's website
http://oxleas.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.