Newly Qualified Nurse – District Nursing

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you a 3rd year nursing student or a newly qualified nurse who is passionate about delivering high quality nursing care to people in their own homes?

Would you like to get the best out of your professional role whilst enhancing or developing your core nursing skills to become a competent, autonomous practitioner?

If the answer is yes, then we want you to work with us.

Community nursing is a challenging and rewarding career, providing care for patients within their own homes and the community setting.

Main duties of the job

District nurses make a difference everyday to the lives of the people they visit at home and in residential care homes. They provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members.

You will visit patients in their own homes and provide a comprehensive range of clinical nursing activities. A key aspect of the role will involve working with the wider multidisciplinary team to help plan and deliver complex care to enable patients to remain in their home environment for as long as possible.

Working as part of an integrated locality team, you will work in partnership to reduce hospital admission and facilitate discharge by providing clinical holistic assessment and treatment.

You will promote optimal levels of independence and wellbeing for patients whilst facilitating teaching and support for formal and informal carers.

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full-time, Part-time

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum

Closing date

21/08/2023