We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated Nurses to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence-based, clinically effective service for our patients in their own homes.
The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response and supporting unplanned care. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support.
The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use their clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support patients to remain at home and avoid admission to hospital and also offer hospital-based care to our patients on the virtual ward.
You will assess, plan, and evaluate clients' care including families and carers where appropriate.
To work as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings. The post holder will have knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long-term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning, and independent prescribing. The post holder will use these skills within the community to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of LTC, exacerbation, acute illness, and injuries.
The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of frail patients who may also have complex chronic disease, formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analyzing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary.
The post holder will prescribe safe, effective, and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.
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