Professional Lead For Community Nursing
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and enthusiastic Community Nurse Professional Lead with the Torquay Locality. The Community Nurse team comprises of community nurses, health care assistants, phlebotomists, community matrons and practitioners as well as close working with pharmacists, therapists and other multi professional colleagues within the locality.
The Torquay Health and Wellbeing team are renowned for their integrated and supportive approach with colleagues from across Allied Health Professions, Intermediate Care, Social Care and the Voluntary sector. The team are friendly and supportive and work together to meet the needs of patients in the community as best as they can whilst also supporting each other.
The team are creative and always keen to explore new ways of working to improve patient care and service delivery. We work flexibly and encourage a healthy work life balance and are keen to help our team members to develop and always seek opportunities for improving. If you would like to discuss the new post or arrange to come to meet the team, please contact Sarah Bradley, the recruiting manager for an informal chat.
Main duties of the job
To deliver high quality care to the housebound patients of Torquay area and work as part of multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with primary care and secondary care.
To work closely with Professional Leads for Occupational therapy, Social work and physiotherapy in Torquay to develop integrated practice, putting in place new process pathways and adapting practice to support the aims of the Trust and key performance targets.
To lead the development of an integrated and coordinated nursing service Torquay, maintaining and building on partnerships with Practice Nurse and Hospital Nurse colleagues.
To deputise for the professional head of service, Community Services Manager, or other Locality leads where required.
About us
Torquay Health and Well-Being Team are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients.
We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance. The team work very closely with the Intermediate Care team, Urgent Community response Team as well as the integrated social care teams.
We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance.
Link to job page: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9388-24-0285?keyword=community%20nursing&language=en&page=2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum
Closing date
10/03/2024 23:59