# Community Nurse

**Company**: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Leatherhead
**Salary**: £33,677 to £40,996 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse to work at Leatherhead PCN, within Surrey Downs Health & Care.

If you are passionate about caring for people and making a difference within your community, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking for nursing staff from all backgrounds including newly qualified, those more experienced, looking for a change, maybe wanting to work locally, excited by the difference of being out within the community with the benefits and challenges that brings.

To work within the team, contributing to team management and the development of innovative practice. To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of holistic care packages.

**Main duties of the job**

- Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as negotiated and agreed with District Nurse

- Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times

- Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic programmes of care

- Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers

- Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the patient

- Develop effective communication and liaison systems

- Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to SDHC procedures

- Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team and students

- Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff

- Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence-based nursing care

- Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines

- Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision activities

- Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with the senior team member, deputising as required

- Be responsible and maintain timely patient care

- Be responsible for maintaining data entry and other record keeping

- To work in co-operation and partnership with all other professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient

**About us**

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £33,677 to £40,996 a year Pro Rata Per Annum inc Fringe HCAS

- Permanent contract

- Full-time and part-time working patterns available

**Requirements**

- 1st level registration

- Evidence of continued professional development post registration

- Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS

- Understanding of the Clinical Governance agenda

- Research awareness

- Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care

- Effective communicator

- IT skills and timely data entry

- Teaching skills

- Flexible, reliable and ability to work under pressure

- Car driver with a valid License to drive in UK with access to a car to use for business purposes

## Skills

### Required
- assessment
- care planning
- communication
- data entry
- teamwork
- leadership
- mentorship
- clinical supervision

### Nice to have
- leadership skills
- community experience

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