Virtual Ward Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner – Band 4
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner in the Virtual Ward. The Virtual Ward has been commissioned to provide a safe alternative to manage and monitor a specific group of patients with acute respiratory illness, Frailty or Heart Failure as an alternative to hospital admission and/or to facilitate earlier discharge from hospital. The patients' care will be delivered in their own home by utilizing cutting-edge patient-friendly technology to provide remote monitoring, along with additional tailored in-person or telephone support.
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to enable patients to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life?
The successful post holder will be accountable to the Virtual Ward Lead Nurse and will be personally accountable for the nursing standards of delegated duties, providing evidence-based care, advice, and information to patients and carers.
Main duties of the job
* Providing care to patients either remotely or within a community setting, who require high-quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective, and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.
* Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrate high levels of care and compassion promoting independence, preventing hospital admission or admission to care, and supporting early discharge from hospital helping people receive the care at home.
* Provide necessary support to individuals requiring ongoing care needs, monitor individuals remotely and deliver specific treatment/care plans and be directly involved in the wider MDT approach to admissions avoidance plan of care.
* Support remote monitoring of a patient's condition escalating concerns to the specialist clinical staff or senior decision maker.
* Provide holistic person-centred care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions in a variety of ways.
* Support our patients within a community setting providing timely assessment, treatment, and effective discharge from the service.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high-quality care every time':
* Being a clinically led organisation.
* Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust.
* A positive patient experience every time.
* A great place to work.
* Managing our money well.
As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
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* Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
* If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Person Specification
* Registered Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner Qualification.
* Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.
* Understanding scope of practice and professional accountability.
* Experience of working in Acute and Community settings.
Knowledge & Experience
* Demonstrate evidence of working as part of a multiprofessional team.
* Recognise and work within limits of own competence.
* Evidence of CPD.
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Experience of delivering teaching/education to patients/carers.
Skills and Aptitudes
* IT skills and ability to analyse data.
* Enthusiasm and ability to work as part of a team.
* Extended Clinical skills of venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation, wound care.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements including electronic patient record systems.
* Awareness and application of digital technology.
* Awareness of the National virtual ward programme.
Personal Circumstances
* Able to travel independently of public transport across North Cumbria.
* Able to work flexibly across a range of acute and community settings.
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.
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
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