Nursing Personnel are recruiting nursing agency Community nurses for acute NHS Trusts across the UK. We are an NHS approved nursing agency on all nursing NHS Framework Agreements. This means Nursing Personnel can offer you continuity of work when and where you need it.
A Community nurses will have the following clinical duties:
Working in a variety of environments, from clinics and health centres to residential accommodation and patients’ own homes, community nurses help the NHS meet the needs of elderly, disabled or vulnerable patients who may not be able to easily visit the hospital.
Community nurses are trained to perform a variety of nursing procedures which may include:
basic care – such as checking temperature, blood pressure and breathing
administering injections
assisting doctors with examinations and medical procedures
cleaning and dressing wounds
setting up intravenous drips and monitoring ongoing care
Community nurses also provide an important educational and advisory service for patients and families, offering information on various aspects of healthcare. In some situations, community nurses may be expected to provide emergency care – where patients have had accidents or suffered complications, such as cardiac arrest.
The role is more than a way to relieve the UK’s busy hospitals and GP surgeries: community nurses offer their patients a level of emotional support and specialize in ‘joint care management’ for situations in which social services or wider care programmes may be involved.
Community nursing jobs can be high pressure: nurses work in environments which change from day to day and lack many of the resources available in a hospital. Given the demanding nature of the role and the spectrum of patients they are required to treat, community nurses should possess excellent communication and listening skills, while demonstrating sensitivity towards the specifics of each unique situation.
Before taking an available nursing post a community nurse must be a qualified and registered nurse (usually with two years’ practical experience) – and will also need additional, degree level training as a ‘specialist practitioner’.
A community nurse must be a registered nurse with the UK NMC. Educational requirements may depend on the healthcare facility, its size, and location. Entry-level requirements for general medical nursing include nursing experience and a nursing qualification recognised by the UK NMC.
Nurses must meet the below:
Nurses must be registered with the NMC
At least 1 months post qualification clinical experience in general medicine
Have right to work in the UK