Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
About
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Key details
Location
Site: Salford Care Organisation
Address: St James House, Pendleton Way
Town: Salford
Postcode: M6 5FW
Major / Minor Region: Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 p.a inc.
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)
Specialty
Main area: Community Services
Job overview
We take referrals for medical and/or social crisis from the community (e.g. NWAS, GPS) and SRFT departments, aiming to promote early discharge from hospital and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions by implementing clinical treatment/care plans in the patient's own homes in the Salford area.
The team manages acutely unwell patients at home using a variety of pathways (e.g. IV antibiotics via cellulitis pathway, DVT pathway). We are currently developing further pathways to manage patients in their own environment and prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital (e.g. heart failure pathway).
This is expanding to include Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) virtual wards model of care, working as part of a team utilising technology and new ways of working to provide a safe alternative to hospital admission and support people to be discharged from hospital earlier than may have been possible previously. The focus of this role is delivering high quality care in the community, holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and reviewing care provision across the Virtual Wards pathways of care. This is an exciting opportunity to shape services that will improve the experience of healthcare for the population of Salford and deliver an NHS national priority.
Advert
We are looking to recruit an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join our Community Urgent Response/Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) virtual wards / Home IV (OPAT) team to work with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians including Advanced practitioners, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, and support staff to provide high quality comprehensive care to patients who require step down from hospital and provide clinical interventions in the home environment to prevent hospital admissions, working closely with NWAS and GPs.
You will have current NMC Registration, preferably 2 years community experience, and a clinically based nursing degree. A car user is essential to this role.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note an NMC PRN Pin is not a full NMC Pin and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: NMC Guide
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: NCA Careers
We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions to candidates in advance.
This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas therefore if you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies and will not be liable for fees for candidates submitted speculatively.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
NMC Registered
Essential criteria
* Must have current NMC registration and be eligible to practice
Desirable criteria
* V300 prescribing qualification
RGN/RN qualification
Essential criteria
* RGN/RN qualification degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* ENB998/Preparation for Mentorship/ Evidence of supporting students
Knowledge/experience
Essential criteria
* 1 years post registration experience
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in a community setting
Documents
* Band 6 RN JD/PS (, 274.2)PDFKB
* Functional Requirements (, 120.7)PDFKB
* Sponsorship & eVisa Information (, 141.8)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Jane Lillywhite
Job title: Nurse Team Lead
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0161 206 6666
Additional information:
Vikki Allen
Lead Nurse
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