Senior Community Nurse - Community Response Team (CRT)
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, forward-thinking, self-motivated individual to join our Community Response Team based in Stratford.
The Community Response Team operates across the hours of 08:30 to 21:30, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.
As a Senior Community Nurse, you will be responsible for assessing and managing the health and care needs of patients in their homes, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting the facilitation of discharges from hospital. You will support patients in the community with long-term conditions, provide end-of-life support, and deliver holistic, comprehensive care to patients in their own homes. You will also work closely with the multidisciplinary team, including therapists, GPs, social services, and urgent response, collaborating with other community service teams to deliver seamless care across the locality, working within an unpredictable and unscheduled workload.
You will be responsible for deputising on behalf of the Band 7 Professional Lead and providing coordination for the team. You will have proven organisational and management skills and will be able to motivate and effectively lead the team in delivering high-quality care to our patients. You will be a clinical role model and have a willingness to develop the team as well as your own professional growth.
Main Duties of the Job
Working in a leadership role as a member of the community response team, responding to visits via Clinical Triage, assessing, planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the programmes of care provided across health, social, and voluntary care sectors as part of a multi-disciplinary community-based rehabilitation team.
Job Responsibilities
To provide effective clinical leadership within the Community Response Team, enabling the service to deliver the highest possible care standards, ensuring that evidence-based practice is used. To act as a role model and exercise good leadership.
Providing highly skilled nursing assessment, intervention, and advice to clients and carers. Communicating with members of the multi-disciplinary team to maintain high standards of care.
To work as an accountable and autonomous professional responsible for the diagnosis, advanced assessment, and treatment of community-dwelling clients who are experiencing a sudden health crisis, including palliative and end-of-life care.
The post holder will guide and support junior staff and students in the organisation of their work, providing clinical advice and specialist expertise.
To deputise for the Professional Lead on an equitable basis with other senior nurses as needed.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, ensuring a high standard of clinical care.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of clients with a wide variety of complex conditions using advanced investigative and analytical skills to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
To formulate individualised treatment plans, using sound clinical reasoning skills and utilising a wide range of evidence-based treatments.
To assess competency for and delegate appropriate tasks to other team members, carers, and their families.
To have clinical responsibility for dealing with unplanned and unpredictable urgent referrals for clients living in the community.
To demonstrate ongoing evaluation of nursing interventions with the client and respond accordingly.
To carry out treatment plans for other professionals in their absence under delegation and within your competency.
To work innovatively to address the challenges posed by providing treatment in a variety of community settings.
To undertake specialist-nursing interventions, which require accuracy and precision, some of which will be invasive.
To demonstrate highly developed knowledge and skills in the health surveillance of acutely ill community-based clients.
To take an active lead in advising and teaching health education and health promotion to clients, other professionals, families, and carers.
To assess for and provide equipment in accordance with ICES (Integrated Community Equipment Store) guidelines.
To regularly work unsupervised and alone in clients' homes.
To immediately report to the Professional Lead/Clinical Lead any variance to the clients' care pathway and document in accordance with the agreed procedure.
To identify urgent need for, and initiate an emergency response, giving appropriate first aid as necessary within own capabilities.
To work at all times strictly within the Trust's Infection Control Guidelines.
To communicate effectively with clients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential, using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
To gain valid consent to intervention where possible in accordance with the legal framework and consent policy. To identify and report concerns where clients may lack capacity.
To liaise and effectively communicate assessment and rehabilitation outcomes with other multi-disciplinary teams, voluntary agencies, and health and social care professionals.
To maintain accurate, comprehensive documentation and maintain confidentiality in accordance with local intermediate care protocols.
To assist in the delivery of training/clinical education for staff and students.
To attend professional meetings and study days appropriate to the needs of the service.
To undertake all mandatory training.
To work within agreed national and local clinical guidelines and be aware of and abide by the guidelines and protocols of the Integrated Team.
To be aware of and abide by the approved policies and procedures of the Trust and the Nursing and Midwifery Councils guidelines on professional conduct.
To be responsible for your own continuing professional development which is demonstrated in a portfolio.
To participate in appraisal scheme and attend external courses where identified as part of individual appraisal.
To maintain adequate levels of nursing stock and undertake a quarterly equipment audit within the work area.
To assist in the recruitment and selection of junior staff.
To adhere to information governance both for internal and external sources for patient data.
This is an outline job description. It is subject to review at periodic intervals and may change over time with the development of Community Services following discussion with the post holder.
Post holder will be required to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel across the South Warwickshire Foundation Trust and to other agencies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (1st Level)
* Degree level qualification or evidence of equivalent knowledge
* Health Needs Assessment Qualification
* Leadership Qualification
* Nurse Prescribing Qualification
* Specialist Practitioner Qualification (or working towards)
* Coaching Skills
Experience
* Competent End of Life experience
* Experience of Personalised Care Planning and complex patient management
* Experience of working in a team environment
* Experience of nurse leadership and management
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development
* Experience in managing complaints
* Experience in service improvement
Skills
* Ability to provide supervision and support staff
* Must be able to demonstrate nurse leadership skills
* Must have experience in utilising health needs assessment skills
* Must have knowledge of clinical supervision
* Must have excellent prioritisation and timekeeping skills
* Must be computer literate and have standard keyboard skills
* Teaching, presentation, and facilitation skills
Personal Qualities
* Ability to work independently, lead and be part of a team
* Ability to influence and adapt to service need and demand
* Ability to be self-motivated
* High level of interpersonal and communication skills
* Excellent role model
* Ability to work at pace
Other
* Must have means of own transport
* Must be a non-smoker during working hours
* Must be willing to undertake Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure to Enhanced / Standard level
* Must be legally entitled to work in this country
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Response Team- Based at Stratford
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