Job overview

Community nurses make a difference every day to the lives of the people they visit at home.  We are proud of our Community Nursing teams who provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members to encourage patients to receive the care they need in their own home. 

We are looking for Registered Nurse’s with a passion for high quality nursing care and experience in either acute medicine, Emergency Care or community nursing to join our staff bank as a Bank Community Staff Nurse. The post holder will provide acute nursing assessment & interventions in patients’ own homes and will ensure that patients are referred onwards as appropriate to community services once their care episode is complete. 

Rewards and Benefits

• Additional top up rate of 12.07% on the standard hourly rate.  
• Additional pay enhancements at weekends & public holidays
• Bank incentives, including Wagestream (An optional service to allow staff to access a percentage of their earned wages before the monthly pay date
• Flexible working across the organisation
• Free parking on Trust Sites
• NHS Staff Benefits including NHS Pension & Access to Blue Light card! 

The initial training provided to successful candidates includes all Trust mandatory training and specific training relevant to the role. 

You will be able to see shifts through the Allocate Loop app, provide you with flexibility to work around you! 

Main duties of the job

Working life 

As a Bank Community nurse, you'll 

• assess the healthcare needs of patients and families
• monitor the quality of care they're receiving
• be professionally accountable for the delivery of care
• utilise technology to enable you to update records as you go 

Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from hospital, be terminally ill or have physical disabilities.

The service aims to provide an excellent standard of care that supports patients to remain in their home environment. In Northamptonshire you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support the service and focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience. You'll play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and re-admissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible. 

The service core hours are 8am to 6pm, 7 days a week.

Must have skills

You will need to be adaptable and resourceful. You'll need to be well organised, confident and able to cope in diverse situations to deliver patient care. Leadership and management skills are also important, as with all nursing roles, communication skills, problem solving and good judgement are crucial.

You will be part of caring team and be able to work flexibly with minimum supervision, with the ability to prioritise work based on the patient need. 

Join us and become part of Team NHFT. 

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.