Job overview

Community Staff Nurse required in West Cumberland Night Nursing Service - 36  hours per week. (3 x 12 hour shifts)

• Do you want to be part of an emerging, unique and diverse organisation that put people at the heart of what we do? A Trust that empowers and engages its workforce to improve care and wellbeing, by delivering better health, better care in partnership?
• Are you looking to develop your knowledge and skills in community services, providing both routine and complex treatments to patients within their own home?
• Do you see the benefits of closer integrated working between health and social care to ensure the best outcomes for patients?
• Are you passionate about wanting to work with patients to help them achieve their goals? Are you caring and compassionate and committed to personalised care?

This position would suit someone who is committed to delivering a high standard of care whilst working within a small, supportive team across based in Whitehaven, although the night nursing service coveres West Cumberland and Carlisle. 

Main duties of the job

• To prioritise referrals and manage workload
• To assess, monitor and continually evaluate risk management of situation and environment for both patient/carer/family and staff and deal with safety issues as identified.
• To assess, deliver and evaluate all aspects of clinical nursing care based on best practice.
• Use of equipment/technology to aid appropriate assessment of patient condition and delivery of treatment such as Doppler, Syringe Driver, enteral feed system, moving and handling equipment
• To carry out a range of clinical duties that involve dealing with body fluids eg venepuncture, wound dressings, catheterisation and tracheostomy care.
• To undertake and obtain samples for diagnostic purposes eg venepuncture, wound swabs, urinary and faecal sampling.
• To support and educate patients/carers in promoting independence and rehabilitation in timely approach using case management model of working.
• To deliver care in promoting comfort for patients who are terminally ill following recognised care pathway.
• To have sound knowledge base of medication and effects on conditions.
• To be responsible for appropriate and cost effective nurse prescribing.
• To administer medications reviewing and monitoring effects.
• To communicate closely with patients and all parties involved in delivery of services.
• To order and ensure effective management of specialist nursing equipment.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria.  The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.