The remit of the Rapid Response Team is to provide ‘hospital at home’ to people during periods of acute illness and or Reablement in order to prevent hospital admission or to facilitate early discharge.
The team works as a partner within a wider multi-disciplinary team which includes General Practitioners, Consultants, District Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Support and Wellbeing Workers and the Voluntary sector.
The post holder will work collaboratively with and support members of the multidisciplinary team in the delivery, development and management of complex health and social care issues. In particular, they will be responsible for ensuring the timely provision of a high standard of nursing assessment, advice, planning, implementation, training support and evaluation of care taking into account the social context in which a person lives. They will therefore be engaged in the planning and delivery of collaborative care packages that cross the health and social care boundaries.
The post holder is expected to hold organisational skills, demonstrate and apply a broad range of nursing knowledge, interventions and skills. Knowledge of the principles of health promotion and preventing illness will be fundamental as will having a comprehensive understanding of the roles of others in health and social care.
Key Responsibilities:
* To work collaboratively with health and social care professionals.
* To carry out health and social care assessments.
* To work as an autonomous practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work, within agreed national local and professional standards and guidelines.
* To accept referrals from other disciplines unsupervised and co-ordinate intensive and complex packages of care with other multi-disciplinary agencies.
* To use enhanced clinical skills and knowledge to assess the physical and psychosocial needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with the patient, their carers and the wider MDT as needed.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Additional Responsibilities:
* Support students.
* Undertake risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of the patient’s ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing and arranging necessary and supportive packages of care.
* Develop and implement evidenced based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on best practice, specialist knowledge, experience and specific training to improve health outcomes and promote choice.
* Ensure that nursing and rehabilitation models of care are used when assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating specialist programmes of prescribed patient care.
* To work in close collaboration with all other community agencies including District Nursing Services, community based therapists, social workers and health and wellbeing workers.
* To be accountable as the named nurse/key worker for individual patient care, according to CRT Borough practice. Undertake detailed risk assessments on every visit, to ensure the safety of both staff and patients. Undertake clinical observations using own clinical judgement and to interpret, record and accurately report to the team and responsible clinician.
* To adapt treatment programmes to suit the patient’s home environment, requiring creative thinking and problem solving skills.
* To undertake specialist nursing wound care with patients.
* To facilitate pain management.
* To facilitate continence and bowel management.
* To provide care to the elderly in the context of their complex needs including associated confusion and dementia, difficulty in understanding, and challenging behaviour.
* To perform nursing procedures in the patient’s own home.
* To assess and supervise medication, give patient advice and liaise with local pharmacist, GP, hospice or clinician to discuss appropriate medication and self-administration methods.
* To identify toxicity, overdoses and contra-indications.
* To implement or arrange unplanned procedures such as cannulation, venepuncture, monitoring of vital signs, oxygen saturations and adjusting medications.
* To select and administer appropriate medication for symptom control or take an appropriate course of action e.g. contacting out of hours GP, hospice referral, bereavement counselling. (non-prescribers can only work from existing prescription)
* To arrange the dispensing, safe acquisition and delivery of drugs to the patient’s home.
* To undertake diabetes management newly diagnosed, advising, supporting, health promotion and requesting appropriate investigations e.g. HbA1c, fasting glucose etc. also ongoing management, monitoring blood sugars.
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