Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22 hours per week (Weekend Rota Cover included due to 7 day service requirement)
- Job ref
- 388-7331062-FC&I-A
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Edmunds
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Out of Hours Community Registered Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse looking to join a friendly and motivated Out of Hours (OOH) Community team?
We are a supportive multi-disciplinary team who are passionate about delivering high quality care to housebound patients, in partnership with primary care and secondary care, covering moor-to-sea, coastal and Torbay districts.
Joining our team as Band 5 Registered Nurse, you will provide responsive, planned and unplanned support to patients requiring urgent nursing within their own homes and residential care settings.
We work in small teams of two which includes yourself and one Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW) where you will work in partnership throughout your shift, this will include shared driving. Whilst working for our Out of Hours team you will have access to Trust provided Pool Cars for all of your work-transport needs to ensure you can deliver planned and unplanned care.
Main duties of the job
- Working in partnership with HCSW to support patients and their carers
- Treating Post non-injury or minor injury falls which can include wound dressings and supporting patients with catheterisation, bowel care and treatment escalation plans.
- Responsible for Community Nurse Equipment i.e., Scales, Bladder Scanner, Doppler
- Guide and mentor junior staff and students
- Escalate any concerns to team leaders or Community Nurse Lead
- Generate prescriptions and order pressure relieving equipment using available IT systems in place.
Working for our organisation
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and focussed on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths. We encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement. If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Promote self-care with health education when visiting patients and their carers/family in order to increase understanding and promote maximum independence.
- Undertake Specialist Nursing and Continuing Care assessments (with appropriate training)
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team, managing own clinical caseload on a day to day basis
- Ensure confidentiality of patients and their care is maintained, demonstrating knowledge of principles and purpose of data protection - Record, retrieve and access information in various formats
- 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
- Ensure timely and effective communication with the team manager and other team members on professional matters
- Liaise with patients/relatives who could be unpredictable/or challenging in their responses because of stress related problem
Please see full job description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Health and Safety awareness
- Equality and diversity awareness
- Understands clinical governance
- Awareness of local and government agendas
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate good time management skills
- Proven relevant experience in a range of clinical skills including complex and specialist skills
- Knowledge of principles of Research and Audit
- Proven relevant experience in communicate complex information to patients, carers, and health and social care staff
- Ability to demonstrate good time management skills
Desirable criteria
- Willing to undertake V150 community practitioner prescribing course
- Palliative care skills
- Understands clinical supervision and able to demonstrate relevance to practice
- Previous experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicole brooks
- Job title
- OOH's Community Nurse Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07798 641817
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