Main area: Urgent Community Response Team
Grade Band: 6
Contract: 10 months (Fixed term/secondment - post cover until 20/10/2025)
Hours: 30 hours per week (service covers 7 days operational Monday to Sunday)
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
Job ref: 362-A-24-6836195
Employer: Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Regent House
Town: Stockport
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/02/2025 23:59
Band 6
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner to join us in the Urgent Community Response/Virtual Ward Team.
The role involves supporting the delivery of the 2 hour Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward mandates to improve out of hospital care and support the management of patients in their own home.
The team provides urgent care to people in their homes, helping to avoid hospital admissions and enabling people to live independently for longer.
Main duties of the job
* Assess, plan, implement and review patients in their own home using research and evidence-based knowledge.
* Monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice.
Person specification
Education and training
* 1st level registered nurse
* Degree qualification or equivalent experience
* Prescribing qualification or ability to work towards it
* Teaching/mentoring qualification
* Urgent care/ED experience or additional qualification
* CSP or equivalent
Knowledge
* Broad range of specialist knowledge of medical conditions and treatments
* Knowledge of relevant Government legislation and health economy pressures
* Evidence of CPD
* Knowledge of Trust policies and procedures
Experience
* Experience of managing a team/day-to-day workload
* Evidence of managing change
* Evidence of autonomous practice
* Experience of responding to sudden and unplanned changes in medical conditions
* Community experience/crisis response
* Experience of patients with long-term conditions
* Experience of MDT working
Skills and abilities
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Able to work under pressure
* Accurate and legible record keeping
* Demonstrated collaborative working
* Effective written and oral communication
* Problem-solving and analytical skills
* Clinical expertise in own field
* Familiar with standard computer programmes
Work related circumstances
* OH clearance/essential car driver/DBS clearance
Applicants are encouraged to read the documents attached to this vacancy before applying, including the job description and person specification.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees.
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