Main area: Continuing Healthcare Fast Track Nurse Practitioner
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 137-6674109-C
Employer: NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: County Hall
Town: Norwich
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
Norfolk and Waveney ICB are excited to offer this opportunity and look forward to hearing from you if you are a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with a specific interest in compassionate end of life care. You will be required to assess and evaluate patient conditions, in accordance with the National framework for NHS Continuing healthcare, fast track pathway.
You will arrange personalised care, which will require close monitoring. You will be working closely with individuals and their families during a difficult time in their lives. You will be working as part of a team that strives to deliver a high standard of care.
You will be expected to undertake face-to-face visits to complete regular reviews and DSTs where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
* The successful candidate will join the Continuing Healthcare Fast track team, working with autonomy and holding responsibility for managing and prioritising your own workload against the needs of patients and the service requirements.
* You will be required to receive, triage, and accept referrals from appropriate clinicians for patients with a rapidly deteriorating condition who may be entering the terminal phase.
* You will manage an individual caseload, supporting patients and their families with high quality, safe and compassionate care, commissioning appropriate packages of care for patients referred for NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track in accordance with Norfolk and Waveney ICB's policies.
* You will act as a specialist resource for colleagues and other multi-disciplinary team members to advise on Fast Track completion and appropriateness, supporting colleagues with education, clinical work, audit and service development work.
* You will need to be an effective communicator to share sensitive condition-related information successfully with patients, providers and carers in a timely and understandable manner, using different communication methods to clarify understanding.
Person specification
* A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
* Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
* Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
* Ability to take decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of options.
* Previous experience in a similar role in the public sector.
* Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
Your application
Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
We are unable to accept CVs as part of an application. Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job. Be mindful that any offer of employment will be subject to pre-employment checks e.g. health, identity, right to work, qualifications, registration and references. Please provide up-to-date referee details to avoid delay.
To ensure diverse representation at all levels across the workforce and to understand the differing needs of our stakeholders, Norfolk and Waveney ICB is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and to addressing any imbalance of opportunity or disadvantage that an individual with a protected characteristic could face. We would strongly encourage applications from candidates from under-represented backgrounds.
Applicants with a disability need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process providing that you inform us of any special requirements.
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