South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, well-motivated and flexible Junior Nurse Practitioner to join our Urgent Community Response Services across Sunderland within the Recovery at Home Team at Leechmere.
Recovery at Home is a nurse led service, which delivers rapid assessment and treatment to patients in their own home with an acute illness and/or injury. The Team provides holistic care/intervention 24/7, with the intent to prevent admission/readmission to hospital. You must be dynamic, motivated, and enthusiastic with a flexible approach to working with relevant experience in an acute care or community environment.
The team consists of an extensive MDT which includes Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Health Care Assistants, Therapy Assistants/Exercise Practitioners and Administrative staff. The team also works closely alongside partner agencies including those from the local and voluntary sector.
This role involves assessing people in their own homes who are either acutely unwell or have recently been discharged from hospital and require enhanced intervention and short-term support for their physical and functional health needs to remain at home.
Full time and part time hours will be considered for this post.
Main duties of the job
This is a unique and rewarding role which will allow you to work with patients within their usual place of residence to enable them to remain there safely alongside you developing your own clinical skills.
The service is committed to providing a sound environment for education and training to support the successful candidate within this role.
The service is fast-paced, and you would be expected to see a wide range of patients who present with a variety of conditions.
The post holder will need to be proactive with their own learning and work to identified timescales.
Job responsibilities
* To provide care to people in their own homes to prevent admission/readmission to hospital by providing rapid assessment of patients in the community over a 24-hour period.
* Undertake comprehensive holistic assessment of patients in both planned and unplanned situations, be able to prioritise clinical need, initiating investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and implement a plan of care reflecting evidence-based guidance.
* To maintain agreed standards of care, integrity, and dignity of all patients in an environment which is conducive to caring for those patients in their own homes.
* Undertake triage within the service determining clinical priority of calls, working with the coordinator to ensure teams are dispatched to respond to the referral.
* Work collaboratively with multi-professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective and evidence-based.
* To develop his/her scope of professional practice to support the team to meet service requirements in accordance with professional guidelines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse.
* Degree in Nursing/working towards completion.
* Clinical Skills Certificate.
* Teaching and assessing in clinical practice Mentorship experience/working towards.
* Teaching Qualification.
Experience
* Post registration experience in acute care/practice.
* Portfolio and evidence of continuous professional development with a willingness to extend skills and knowledge.
* Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working.
* Community Experience.
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
* Good planning and organisational skills.
* Ability to delegate.
* Ability to organise workload, work autonomously and within a team.
* Clear, concise, accountable record keeping/report writing skills.
* IT literate.
* Phlebotomy and Cannulation Skills.
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 Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year (Pro-Rata for part time hours)
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