Job summary
Do you want to be part of a dynamic and evolving service? Join us as a Nurse and make a difference every day! We are offering a range of flexible working opportunities that can be personalised to fit you and your life.
Our Urgent Community Response Service provides urgent care and therapy to people aged 18 and over, in their own home, to help them avoid being admitted to hospital. It also supports people to return home following a hospital stay.
The service runs every day of the year from 8am to 8pm and teams are based across Sussex in:
- East Sussex - Brighton and Hove, and Lewes
- West Sussex - Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Haywards Heath and Worthing
The teams respond to referrals within two hours, providing rapid access to a range of health and social care professionals, including Health and Therapy Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Paramedics and Physiotherapists.
Their short-term support helps people manage a health crisis or illness, medication needs, feeding and hydration, to ensure that they can remain in their own home safely and live more independently for longer.
Main duties of the job
As a Nurse, you will be delivering holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment care plans, alongside reviewing care provision. You will provide input for patients including identifying and managing deterioration in the community by utilising a range of core skills. You will be part of a team supporting evidence-based care, facilitating staff learning and development.
This post is an ideal opportunity for a nurse who is keen to develop both their holistic assessment skills and knowledge of urgent community response. If you are new to Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, you will join our preceptorship programme, receiving protected time and regular clinical supervision with dedicated registered professional support.
If you're a qualified Nurse looking to return to practice or have you previously been on the NMC or HCPC register and live in the Sussex areas, we want to hear from you! We can offer a flexible programme of Return to Practice and are interested in talking with you about your individual requirements. For more information, please contact us.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are keen to make working for us, work for you. We are offering a range of flexible working opportunities and contracts that are personalised to fit you and your life. The following opportunities or a combination of them are available across all Nurse roles:
- Flexible or fixed full-time hours
- Flexible of fixed part-time hours (for example 15hrs, 22.5hrs, or 30hrs)
- Annualised hours working patterns
- Term-time only working patterns
- Fixed-term opportunities
- Flexible working as part of our Temporary Workforce Service
Please get in touch with us to talk about how we can make this role flexible for you!
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Professional registration with the NMC
- A mentoring qualification or working towards this
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
- Experience in a variety of clinical settings
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
- Demonstrable competency in a range of clinical skills
- Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
- A clear understanding of the role of the Nurse working in the community
- To beable to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- To beable to promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
- IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
- To be able to demonstrate knowledge/understanding of boundaries of role
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- To be a car driver with a valid driving license for use in the UK and access to a vehicle for work purposes
- To be willing to undertake training to develop within the role
- To be able to reflect and learn from situations
- To be able to identify difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- To be able to demonstrate a high level of understanding of self, able to identify personal limitations and shows openness to address them
For a detailed job description and main responsibilities please see the attached supporting documents.
We often receive a high number of applications for this role so please be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than stated.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
- Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management, catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers
- Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
- A clear understanding of the role of the Community Staff Nurse
- Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
- IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge/ understanding of boundaries of role
- Practice supervisor
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
Desirable
- Motivational interviewing skills
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in a variety of clinical settings
- Experience of working within the Community
- Experience of working with the ageing population
- Experience of EOL patients and EOL care
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Qualification
- ENB 998 or equivalent or work towards
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
Other
Essential
- Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
- Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrate a high level of understanding of self, able to identify personal limitations and shows openness to address them
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
BGH
Brighton
BN2 3EW