Community Primary Care Nurse - Twilight / Nights - Band 5

Applications are invited from suitably-qualified and experienced Community Nurses to join the twilight and nights team within the Primary Care health service on the beautiful Island of Guernsey , in the Channel Islands.

The service operates from 18:00 including overnight shifts as required, all year round.

Shift patterns are twilight 18:00-00:30 and night shift 22:30-07:30. The weekly rota is five twilight shifts and one shift continuing until 07:30.

The Community Nursing Service provides assistance in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care for patients.

You will work in the patients homes without direct supervision.

You will also be required to assist with the management of caseloads in order to provide a high quality service as well as providing assistance in the supervision, deployment and teaching of junior staff and student nurses.

You will be a member of a multi-disciplinary team acting as a mentor, preceptor/supervisor.

Duties include (but not limited to); general nursing care - catheter care, parental feed set up, palliative care, wound care, pressure area care and injectables in addition to social care assessments as the team provides both nursing and social support overnight.

Please note; Guernsey has adopted the AfC banding system, but have applied their own salary scale.

The current Band 5 salary range is £38,744 to £49,970 plus an annual bonus of £1,605 and higher penalty rates; 36% evening/Saturday and 72% Sunday/BH.

Annual leave starts at 36 days up to 42 days with full credit for NHS service for annual leave and sick leave.

The island of Guernsey is in the Channel Islands and has a population of 65,000. It has some of Britain's finest and best-kept beaches , an especially mild and sunny climate , and an offbeat, historic harbour town in St. Peter's Port, the island's capital.

This unique integrated health service delivers a diverse range of services including diagnosing and treating patients in the island's acute hospital complex, and supporting people with in the wider community.

Providing excellent care, supported by modern equipment and reliant on Healthcare professionals recruited to a high standard.

Person requirements :

Registered Nurse with full registration with the NMC

A minimum of 12 months post-registration experience in Primary Care/Community or similar transferable-skills setting

A flexible approach to an island-setting and a willingness to rotate to all parts of the Community service as required.

The benefits of working in Guernsey include:

- A higher-than-UK salary.

- An annual bonus of £1,605

- A flat rate 20% income tax.

- No Council tax or VAT

- A relocation payment of £5,000*

- On-site Staff Accommodation or a generous allowance for private rental accommodation*

- A continental lifestyle, where the people are friendly, and crime is very low.

*Full T&C in relocation directive

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If this role is not for you, please remember we offer a generous £500 Bonus for any successful friend or colleague referrals.