Job summary
The Community Rehab Unit is a 14-bedded inpatient unit, that delivers rehab in a safe and high-quality care setting and ensures a positive patient experience within an enabling environment where patients participate in a rehab programme.

It delivers personalised, high-quality care and ensures a positive patient experience within an enabling environment where patients are encouraged to do as much as they can to maintain their independence. You will be supported by the Unit Lead and Senior Nurses in the division to achieve this goal.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team, bringing excellent clinical skills and a passion to provide the highest quality patient-focused care. You must be a team player with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work using your own initiative as well as part of the wider team.

We offer flexible working patterns in accordance with the Trust's rostering policy, which includes a well-balanced combination of days, nights and weekends in order to meet the needs of our patients and ensure we provide a fair and equal working environment for the whole team.

Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the team providing nursing care for patients on the Community Unit.

The post holder has the following key elements in their role:

• A professional role promoting a positive image of the Community Unit
• Provision of nursing care for Community Unit patients
• An educational role for patients, carers and new team members
• Instigate / participate in the assessment, implementation and evaluation of patient care.
• Ensure that contemporaneous patient records (including clinical observations) are maintained, all paper entries dated, timed and signed and electronic records attributable to yourself.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration
• Clinically up-to-date
• Knowledge of the principles of manual handling and blood borne disease

Desirable

• Completion of required Trust mandatory training updates
• Contribute to own personal development
• Assist with learning and development activities

Experience
Essential

• Professional/role model
• Flexible
• Good interpersonal skills
• Can demonstrate key competencies of the Behavioural Framework
• Awareness of personal safety
• Organisational skills
• Ability to motivate others and maintain own motivation

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder
• Awareness of personal safety
• Good communication skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.