Job overview

Band 5 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.

Band 5 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

· keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments

· ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures

· ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.

Vaccination

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

An opportunity for a Staff Nurse wishing to work part time hours to join our friendly Twilight Team

Our aim is to be the best we can, offering excellent person-centred, safe and Evidenced based care to those who access our services.  Our Twilight District Nursing Team deliver “out of hours care” to people in their own homes and/or designated buildings. The team is made up of both staff nurses and healthcare assistants, who provide out of hours district nursing service.

You must hold a relevant Nursing Qualification with significant experience as a staff nurse. You must be a car driver and have access to a car for use at work with business insurance.

You will:

• perform joint visits to provide nursing care to patients allocated by a senior staff member
• take responsibility for the assessment, management and evaluation of evidence based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings, and promote effective teamwork within the wider Health Care Team.

Part Time 4.5 hour shifts. 4 shifts per week (18.0hrs/week).

The service operates seven days a week between the hours of 16:30 -00:30

The post consist of 4.5 hour shifts. The shift starts at either 18:00 until 22:30hrs or 19:30 until 00:00hrs depending on the service needs. The contracted hours will be 18.0 hours per week. 

Working for our organisation

Values

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members. As a Band 5 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.