BAND 5 Community Nurse (Bristol)

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating care for individuals with long-term conditions or complex health needs
• Administering medication and supporting self-administration
• Dressing and managing wounds
• Providing Catheter Care in Clinics and within the individual’s home
• Providing Wound Care for housebound individuals after surgery
• Supporting issues around continence
• Cannulation / IV Therapy administration
• Caring at end of life

Experience:

• 6 months experience of working at relevant level within the community in the UK
• Has a full UK driving license and access to an insured car daily
• Able to work within a diverse community of patients and health care professionals.
• Effective communication skills written, verbal and non-verbal with the ability to adapt communication for individuals with communication difficulties
• Able to make clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions.
• Able to work autonomously, and ability to know when to seek appropriate advice / guidance from senior staff.
• Effective time management and caseload management.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of clinical outcomes measures, clinical audit.
• Experience with EMIS, undertaking assessments, providing holistic care to elderly patients on DN caseload
• Management of long-term conditions and palliative care
• Aware of safeguarding adults
• Search for health needs and working with the core and wider MDT to meet patient needs