Job summary

Our Out of Hours Service is a crucial part of our AdultsSpecialist Services delivering care to people who need it urgently or thosewith longer-term conditions. And, were recruiting a Band 5 Community Nurse tohelp us deliver the best experience possible.

As the South Wests largest provider incommunity healthcare, our multi-disciplinary teams of nurses, therapists,clinicians and support colleagues help people remain safe and live asindependently as possible after injury, illness or hospital admission. We takea holistic approach involving people in their care, enabling them to thrive intheir homes and local communities.

And this is where you come in!

We work on a buddy system which means you will never beworking alone youll always have someone with you for every visit during yourshift.

In this role, youll focus on collaborative, safe, effective and evidenced-based practice. Working closely with primary and community services as well as with social care partners, you play a critical role in ensuring a person-centred experience.

Plus, with no rush hour traffic to contend with, save timeon your commute, giving you more free time and flexibility during the day for abetter work/life balance.

Sirona offer enhanced pay rates during evenings andweekends, full NHS benefits including salary and pension, generous annual leaveand well-being support is widely available.

Main duties of the job

In this role, youll focus on collaborative, safe, effective and evidenced-based practice. Working closely with primary and community services as well as with social care partners, you play a critical role in ensuring a person-centred experience.

You will:

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual, patient-centred interventions drawing on a wide range of specialist knowledge gained from practical experience and specific training.
• Be competent in a broad range of clinical skills including catheterisation, pain management, wound care, end of life care and IV medication after specific training and more.
• Actively use and promote shared decision-making, empowering people to improve self-management of their long-term condition while working collaboratively with our teams and system partners
• Supervise colleagues including; peers, students and unregistered workforce in nursing competencies, helping us shape our existing service and contribute to the future design and delivery.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist health care services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, its about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care that we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, service users and communities. We therefore welcome applications from all those who feel they have the skills and attributes we are seeking.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and an NHS pension scheme plus much more! Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for more details.

Additional Information:

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.