Community Nurse Co-ordinator

Position: Community Nurse Co-ordinator
Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 plus company bens
Location: Newcastle and surrounding areas
Hours: Full time, permanent

PULSE Community Healthcare is a leading provider of Complex Care Services in individuals own homes and within the community. We deliver genuine person centred care, focused on achieving outcomes that really make a difference to peoples lives.

We have en exciting opportunity for a Community Nurse to join our team in Newcastle.

Overseeing the clinical aspects of all care provision for our complex care clients, you will work to the highest level of standards encouraging best practice in all areas of work at all times.

You will be a registered Nurse with a current NMC pin number with at least 3 yeas post qualification experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•Undertake assessments for new packages of care
•Review care plans and risk assessments on a regular basis
•Assess competencies of the staff working in the packages
•Recruit any nurses required to join the team
•Coordinate and oversee care provision to complex care clients in their own homes.
•Manager the clinical aspects of the care in partnership with other healthcare professionals

Frequent travel is required to visit clients, therefore you must be a car driver and be flexible to travel to different locations around the Newcastle.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Nurse who is perhaps is looking for a change of direction to use their clinical knowledge.

It would be an advantage to have experience in Acute, ITU, HDU or District Nursing. Experience of dealing with tracheotomy care and ventilated patients would be preferred, along with previous experience in the community.

About Pulse:

PULSE recruits health and social care professionals for temporary and permanent jobs in the UK and abroad. We are the UK’s leading independent provider of healthcare bank staff management services and also provide all kinds of specialist care packages in the home and in the community.

We’re an approved supplier to the NHS and we hold contracts with NHS trusts, private hospitals, social service departments and local authorities nationwide. We also work with hospitals in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.

In 2010, for the second year running, PULSE was named Staffing Agency of the Year by the respected industry publication, Health Investor. In 2011, PULSE was voted as one of the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For for the third year running.

Company Benefits:

•Competitive basic salary
•25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service
•Private Medical Insurance
•Salary sacrifice pension scheme
•Life Assurance
•Employee assistance programme

In addition to your core benefits we can also offer you flexible benefits such as:

•Option to buy or sell up to three days annual leave
•Salary Sacrifice Childcare vouchers
•Enhanced healthcare cover
•Enhanced life assurance

If you are interested in applying for this role, please email your cv to Melina Bolton or call 0161 245 4453