Staff Nurse – Physical Health Community Services

• Provide clinical support, assistance, and professionals expertise to all callers to the Community Nursing Triage Telephone Support. This will range from signposting the referral to the appropriate service, making a direct referral, or offering advice.
• Work in conjunction with administrative support staff to provide high quality, clinical triage using knowledge, skills, critical thinking, and professional judgement
• Control and manage calls effectively by using skilled questioning, active listening and excellent verbal communication skills in a calm, professional manner.
• Possess the ability to prioritise tasks, cases, and situations appropriately to ensure effective delivery of services during periods of high demand.
• Possess relevant clinical skills to be able to visit urgent visits in the patient's home, such as catheter care and end of life care.

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• NMC Registration
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate short courses, training or equivalent experience, in a relevant field.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based nursing care.
• Experience in providing supervision to junior colleagues and students in the completion of routine nursing and clinical skills.
• Uphold the Trust's values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstratable examples and experience.

Essential

• Ability to travel between multiple Trust sites and non-Trust locations, including patient homes, some of which may not be easily accessible via public transport.