A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated Nurses to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for our patients in our intermediate care units in North Tyneside and Northumberland plus patients own homes as required.
The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients supporting discharge from hospital and access to rehabilitation. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients return or remain at home with appropriate health and social services support
The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use their clinical skills and non medical prescribing to support patients within our rehab units also to remain at home and avoid admission to hospital plus if required to offer hospital based care to our patients on the virtual ward
You will assess ,plan, and evaluate clients care including families and carers were appropriate.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
To work as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings.
The post holder will have knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning,
diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing. The post holder will use these skills to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of frail patients who may also have complex chronic disease. Formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary.
The post holder will prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Nov 2024
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