Community Practitioner

The successful person should have excellent communication skills, strong decision making ability and clinical expertise, together with a drive and passion for improving the way healthcare is provided.

The service operates from 24 hours a day 7 days per week including bank holidays. As this is a community based post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential.

The Trust has a thorough induction programme providing support and guidance, regular staff engagement, feedback sessions and a supportive team ethos.

To be professionally accountable for the delivery of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council.

To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family. To promote public health and well-being.

To be accountable for : Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice.

Enhancing the patient’s experience.

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives.

Efficient and effective use of resources

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Ensure a high standard of safe clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standards.

Take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability.

Practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice within own work area.

Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies and clinical guidelines within own work area.

Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.

Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.

Demonstrate effective communication within the multi-professional team regarding patient care.

Undertake interventional procedures with appropriate consent

Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe use of medical devices.

Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk

Provide specialist advice to own and other professions on therapeutic interventions and clinical practice.

Lead by example, develop self and other staff, and influence the way care is given in a manner that is innovative, open and responds to individual needs.

Provide clinical supervision to other staff.

Work harmoniously and effectively with colleagues, patients and clients and their carers, families and friends, seeking advice from senior practitioners as necessary.

Practise within the scope of personal professional competence and extend this scope as appropriate to service needs.

Delegate aspects of care to others and accept responsibility and accountability for such delegation.

Participate in peer review of own practice.

Day to day supervision/training of staff/students.

To assess individuals holistically using a range of different assessment methods, use physical examination skills, order diagnostic tests for client group.

Incorporate health promotion and prevention into care plans, and comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.

Utilise ‘making every contact count’ as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers, families to support the