Community Staff Nurse

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An award winning organisation with over 9000 employees across services in North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Essex, we are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers.What can we offer you?

• Our SOOTHE resources are supporting staff across the trust with their physical and mental health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
• Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
• Annual Big SOOTHE week provides time to reflect on the demands following the pandemic and connect with others to feel able to face future challenges as we move forward.
• “In our Gift” provides a platform for your voice to be heard to implement change
• Purchase additional annual leave as well as wellbeing days
• Career development opportunities and coaching
• Access to in house training programs, leadership management and NVQ qualifications as well as our wellbeing and recovery college
• Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
• Flexible working wherever possible including opportunities for homeworking
• Opportunities to connect of important issues such as Sustainability and digital working
• Empower and engage our staff with LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and STAFF Surveys
• Cycle to work scheme
• Commitment to create a more diverse and inclusive organisation through our Staff Equality Network
• NHS pension scheme
• You would be eligible for NHS discounts including blue light card and red guava

Community Nursing Staff Nurse –

• 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 lead development in others around knowledge and skills in community services?
• Are you passionate about wanting to work with staff and patients to help them achieve their goals? Are you caring and compassionate and committed to personalised care?

Within the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT) we have an opportunity for a Community Staff Nurse to work within our Ambulatory clinics. The clinic locations and teams are spread across the 3 areas that we cover, these being the Stafford locality, Seisdon and Cannock. We are looking to recruit a dedicated and compassionate nurse to work in any of the South West Alliance localities to further enhance the high quality patient experience we offer in the community clinics.The successful applicant needs to have a high quality commitment to provide care in a variety of clinic settings across the south of our locality, undertaking elements of simple and complex wound care, catheter care, continence management, pressure ulcer prevention and management and also medication administration.This is an exciting time to join the team and you will be a part of excellent way of working to meet the changing demand on community nursing.“MPFT positively welcomes diversity and aims to be a truly inclusive place to work. We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic people from all backgrounds that care about making a difference.”For more information, please contact -Sara Hilditch,07814831868 sara.hilditch@mpft.nhs.ukIMPORTANT INFORMATION about your application. Please read. .The Trust treats personal data collected during the recruitment process in accordance with the Information Governance Policy. Information about how your data is used and the basis for processing your data is contained within the Trust’s Privacy Notice

• UPDATES & CORRESPONDENCE – All correspondence will be sent via email to the email address you used when making your application. Please check your email regularly. If you have selected updates by text messaging we will also correspond via this method.
• EMPLOYMENT CHECKS – If selected for interview, you will be sent an email with the details of the documentation you need to bring along with you to verify your Right to work in the UK, your identity and DBS Check. Failure to bring the documentation will delay your employment if you are successful at interview.
• REFERENCES - Please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last 3 years of employment and advise of any gaps in employment. We will not request references prior to interview unless you have given permission on your application form to do so, however, if you are offered a position with the Trust, references will be requested at the point of offer and by completing this application you are giving your approval for this information to be requested.

MPFT is committed to the equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates from all areas of the community, who meet the specific criteria of the post regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, physical / mental disability or offending background.The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.The Trust has a positive attitude to employees and job applicants with mental health issues.PLEASE NOTE: should we have a high volume of applications the Trust may close the vacancy early