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South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don't need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, forward thinking, self-motivated individual to join our Community Response Team based in Stratford.
The Community Response Team operates across the hours of 08:30 to 21:30, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.
As a Senior Community nurse you will be responsible for assessing and managing the health and care needs of patients in their homes, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting to facilitate discharges from hospital. You will be supporting patients in the community with long term conditions, providing end of their life support and providing holistic, comprehensive care to patients in their own homes. You will also work closely with the Multidisciplinary team including: Therapists, GPs, Social Services, Urgent Response, working collaboratively with the other community service teams to deliver seamless care across the locality, working within an unpredictable and unscheduled workload.
You will also be responsible for deputising on behalf of the Band 7 professional Lead and providing coordination for the team. You will have proven organisational and management skills and will be able to motivate and effectively lead the teams in delivering high quality care to our patients. You will be a clinical role model and have a willingness to develop the team as well as your own professional growth.
Main duties of the job
Working in a leadership role as a member of the community response team, responding to visits via Clinical Triage assessing, planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the programmes of care provided across health, social and voluntary care sectors as part of a multi-disciplinary community-based rehabilitation team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide effective clinical leadership within the Community Response Team, enabling the service to deliver to the highest possible care standards, ensuring that evidence-based practice is used. To act as a role model and exercise good leadership.
Providing highly skilled nursing assessment, intervention and advice to clients and carers. Communicating with members of the multi-disciplinary team to maintain high standards of care.
To work as an accountable and autonomous professional responsible for the diagnosis, advanced assessment and treatment of community dwelling clients who are experiencing a sudden health crisis, who may have additional complex multiple pathology and or social circumstances, including Palliative and End of Life Care.
The post holder will guide and support junior staff and students in the organisation of their work, providing clinical advice and specialist expertise.
To deputise for the Professional Lead on an equitable basis with other senior nurses as needed.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of their work, ensuring a high standard of clinical care.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of clients with a wide variety of complex conditions using advanced investigative and analytical skills of clinical and non-clinical information to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis.
To formulate individualised treatment plans, using sound clinical reasoning skills and utilising a wide range of evidence-based treatments to formulate a specialised programme of care which is client led and goal orientated.
To assess competency for and delegate appropriate tasks to other team members, carers and their families.
To have clinical responsibility for dealing with unplanned and unpredictable urgent referrals for clients living in the community.
To demonstrate ongoing evaluation of nursing interventions with the client and respond accordingly.
To carry out treatment plans for other professionals in their absence under delegation and within your competency.
To work innovatively to address the challenges posed by providing treatment in a variety of community settings.
To undertake specialist-nursing interventions, which require accuracy and precision, some of which will be invasive.
To demonstrate highly developed knowledge and skills in the health surveillance of acutely ill community-based clients.
To take an active lead in advising and teaching health education and health promotion to clients, other professionals, families and carers.
To assess for and provide equipment in accordance with ICES (Integrated Community Equipment Store) guidelines.
To regularly work unsupervised and alone in clients' homes.
To immediately report to the Professional Lead/Clinical lead any variance to the clients care pathway and document in accordance with the agreed procedure.
To identify urgent need for, and initiate an emergency response, giving appropriate first aid as necessary within own capabilities.
To work at all times strictly within the Trust's Infection Control Guidelines. To ensure that therapy / treatment / care does not constitute a risk of infection either to the health professional, the patient / client or to visitors, and to report any situation that compromises the safety of staff, clients / patients or visitors with regard to risk of infection.
To communicate effectively with clients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential, using a wide range of verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
To gain valid consent to intervention where possible in accordance with the legal framework and consent policy. To identify and report concerns where clients may lack capacity.
To liaise and effectively communicate assessment and rehabilitation outcomes with other multi-disciplinary teams, voluntary agencies and health and social care professionals in accordance with South Warwickshire Foundation Trust information sharing guidelines.
To maintain accurate, comprehensive, contemporaneous documentation and maintain confidentiality in accordance with local intermediate care protocols, South Warwickshire Foundation Trust records policy and national professional standards.
To attend professional meetings and study days appropriate to the needs of the service. Thereafter, to provide written evidence of learning and feedback to the Urgent Response Team.
To undertake all mandatory training.
South Warwickshire Foundation Trust endorses the principle that whether people smoke or not is a matter of personal choice but where they smoke is a matter of public concern. The policy on smoking and health protects non-smokers and requires that all the South Warwickshire Foundation Trust premises are smoke free.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Degree or equivalent
* NMC registered
* Evidence of relevant post graduate courses/CPD
* Health Assessment Module
* Leadership Qualification/Training or demonstrable experience
Desirable criteria
* Nurse Prescriber (independent)
Experience
Essential criteria
* Relevant post registration experience including a variety of specialities including Palliative/EOL care.
* Two years' experience in working in the community setting.
* Experience in the clinical supervision and training of staff and students.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Demonstrates knowledge of clinical governance and experience of audit.
* Ability to work independently.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication Skills.
* Forward thinking.
* Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
* Critical appraisal, research and presentation skills.
* Ability to influence and adapt to service need and demand.
* Experience of nurse leadership and management.
* Ability to prioritise and delegate.
* IT literate.
* Ability to work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries.
Personal
Essential criteria
* Committed to personal and team development.
* Ability to work at fast pace.
* Adaptable, flexible and good problem-solving skills.
* Motivation, drive and enthusiasm.
* Confident and assertive.
* Clear vision of role/commitment to speciality.
Other
Essential criteria
* Able to travel independently in the community.
* Car driver.
* Willingness to work on a flexible basis to meet the needs of the service.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
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