Communtiy Staff Nurse

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) is a community health provider operating across the Suffolk/Norfolk border, offering a range of NHS community health and social care services.

Job responsibilities

• Contribute to, support, and promote ECCH’s strategic direction, values, and culture in relation to community health services.
• Discuss all treatment options with sensitivity, knowledge, and expertise; act as a patient advocate when appropriate, respecting patient confidentiality and diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Act as a resource for other health and social care professionals on matters relating to community nursing.
• Participate in clinical supervision within Primary Care Home as required.
• Participate and maintain a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area.
• Develop excellent internal and external network to promote Primary Care Home.
• Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and clinical audit.
• Contribute to an environment conducive to effective working, respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.
• Contribute to change and innovation within Primary Care Home.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary Primary Care Home to deliver planned and unplanned services.
• Work in collaboration with colleagues to contribute to the development of care pathways for patients requiring a range of healthcare needs.
• Work in partnership with senior members of the Primary Care Home to review the delegated caseload and ensure the care provided is of high quality.
• Work with patients towards self‑care and independence utilising health coaching techniques.
• Work collaboratively with residential care home colleagues to promote high standards of care.
• Contribute to the review of current policies/protocols/guidelines and the development of clinical pathways and outcomes for people requiring proactive and reactive services.
• Plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities in a wide range of community settings to ensure best practice is delivered to patients in your delegated area of responsibility.
• Take responsibility for own personal and professional development; maintain competence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role.
• Be wholly accountable for practice, taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and professional competence and ensuring all aspects of professional behaviour as required within the professional code are always followed.
• Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patient records in accordance with ECCH Policy and Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for record keeping.
• Take responsibility to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.
• Be responsible for understanding, following and implementing ECCH policies and procedures.
• Ensure own compliance with ECCH risk management systems, proactively identifying risk, reporting and managing risk within area of responsibility.
• Take responsibility for the cost‑effective management and safe use of expensive clinical equipment.
• Contribute to the effective use of resources.
• Contribute to the evaluation of training programmes to support patients and carers to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to maintain independence.
• All roles within ECCH require staff to demonstrate our ABCD commitments and signature behaviours in the care they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues.
• Our values are summarised by the acronym CARE – Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
• Our four signature behaviours are: Compassion – We Listen, We Learn, We Lead; Action – My Accountability, My Responsibility; Respect – Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money; Everyone – Work Together, Achieve Together.

Qualifications

• Professional Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult).
• BSc in Nursing Practice or equivalent.
• Mentorship / preceptorship qualification / ENB 998 or evidence of working towards a nursing degree.

Experience

• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Ability to demonstrate clinical knowledge and competence within scope of clinical practice.
• Previous experience of working in health care.
• Recent clinical experience in community nursing.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working.

Additional Criteria

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Competent IT skills.
• Effective organisation and time‑management skills.
• Excellent record‑keeping skills.
• Ability to embrace our culture, values and signature behaviours.
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel within the community as required.
• Ability to support trainee nursing associates and act as a role model to all students.
• Personal resilience, emotional control and stress management.
• Health coaching training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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