Community Nurses | Essex Partnership University NHS Trust

What do Community Nurses do?

As a Community Nurse, you will play a key role through anticipatory case management of health care needs, supporting service users with their independence.

This could involve:

Treating and caring for people in a safe environment
Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions
Providing palliative care
Wound care
Preventing the deterioration of health

What do you need to join us?

You need:

A NMC UK Registration
Hold a full valid UK driving licence
Own a car

As well as these, there are certain qualities we look for in Community Nurses:

Is confident and able to cope in potentially challenging situations

Takes a holistic, person-centred approach to care.

Considers the service users other health conditions and social issues.

Is ready to develop skills, knowledge and career.

Community nurse delivers an integrative holistic, person-centred approach to care.

Community nurse adopts a systems leadership approach and engages in local transformation.

Community nurse pro-actively case manages individual service users – working together – for hospital avoidance.

Community nurse is a part of a virtual ward for urgent complex care management within the community.

Community nurse engages in local organised shared learning opportunities and optimise the use of the available resources.

Community nurse helps drive National and Local agendas – Ageing well, Frailty, End of Life.

Community nurse acts as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professional accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by our NMC code of conduct and trust polices.

Community nurse adopts digital technology in practice including the implementation of the RAG system applied within the electronic handover tool and utilise MST as a platform to build PCN relationships.

Community nurse is courageous and accepts accountability.

Community nurse engages in local organised shared learning opportunities and optimise the use of the available resources.

What our team have to say about working in Community Nursing:

Become a Healthcare Community Leader

Being the role model – leading by example, is important part of nurses role. Being proactive and professional when providing advice, guidance and support in clinical practice. To work in collaboration with the trust, universities and social care – which is in line with the NHS Long Term Plan 2019 vision.

Represent EPUT and our service at:

Primary Care Network Meetings
South East Essex Frailty Networks
Local End of Care Networks
South East Essex Respiratory networks
others when necessary

The work requires community nurses to be proactive and responsive in managing both long term and short-term patients. The patients are now more complex, and their needs often require the potential for collaborative working.

The community Nurse role is both - preventative and supportive and plays a crucial role in the primary health care team.

Community nurses assess complex patients, putting plans into place alongside other MDT professionals to maintain patients at home and prevent hospital admission.

They provide specialist advice in community nursing and to be the interface with primary and acute care.

Community nursing has greatly evolved over the years and offers highly skilled mix of care which prevents hospital admission and maintains patients to remain cared for in their own environment.

As a nurse in the community, you are the frontline of care and must be able to manage patients effectively and make quick decisions.

Community nursing is a service that has become much more dynamic over the years and to be part of nursing people to allow them to remain in their own homes can be complex but very enjoyable and rewarding.

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