Community Nurse Twilight & Night Service

Job description

• Driving skills

• RN
• NMC

• Evidence of other registration and education training

• Clinical nursing experience
• Working with people with complex health needs
• Experience of undertaking assessment by utilising evidence-based care.
• Previous experience in the Nursing process, care planning and fluent in record keeping
• Experience of providing holistic care that involves the multidisciplinary team

• Experience of training other students and HCAs
• Participation in audit; research projects, service development
• Post registration experience in a NHS community environment

• Knowledge of out of hospital care and the role of the Community Nurse
• Knowledge of reasonable response to service user needs prioritising and dealing with those needs with a required urgency.
• Knowledge of risk involved in working in the community
• Knowledge of evidence based practice
• Knowledge of management of long-term condition e.g Diabetes and an understanding of the concept of self-management
• Knowledge of infection control
• Literacy and numeracy skills
• Ability to listen effectively and ability to give constructive feedback to clients and colleagues

• Knowledge of recent government legislation and changes in community care delivery
• Knowledge of the Audit process

• Ability to work in a team and be a proactive member and able to engage in change process in the team
• Ability to organise and participate in weekly work allocation and able to prioritise and delegate effectively
• Ability to implement learning in practice and inform others
• Ability to communicate well verbally and in writting such as computerised documentation and data entry.entation and data
• Ability to facilitate and support HCAs

• Ability to critically analyse and evaluate research relevant to practice