South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An excellent opportunity has arisen within Hambleton and Richmondshire Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Hospital at Home Service. We are looking for skilled and outstanding clinicians to join our UCR service within the Community and Growing the Friarage Collaborative.
If you possess innovation, dynamism, drive, and are passionate about patient-focused care, this could be the opportunity you are looking for.
The community sister in UCR will have physical assessment and disease management skills and will evidence management of acute/chronic clinical conditions, multiple co-morbidities, and poly-pharmacy, within the home environment, ensuring an optimum standard of patient-centered care. They ideally will be an independent non-medical prescriber; applications will be considered if you do not possess this qualification.
Experience of working in a community setting, working within an emergency assessment unit, or rehabilitation would be an advantage, and we encourage informal visits to the areas.
IF SOMEONE DOES NOT MEET ALL OF THE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA WE ARE HAPPY TO APPOINT AS A BAND 5 TRAINING POST.
Main Duties of the Job
The Urgent Community Response Sister/Charge Nurse will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to continuously assess the needs of individuals with long-term conditions, complex health needs, and acute episodes of ill health requiring an urgent 2-hour response, and agree care plans, utilizing the single assessment process.
The post holder will work autonomously as part of the Community UCR and Hospital at Home to provide a comprehensive assessment and patient-centered care package, utilizing support services and liaising with other agencies to ensure the needs of this client group are met.
About Us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
1. Your Leadership Impact
2. Leading Your Team to Success
3. Leading Into the Future
4. Service Improvement for Beginners
5. Developing Your Service Improvement Skills
6. Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
1. Explore leadership within the NHS
2. Promote Trust values and behaviours
3. Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
4. Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training, you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job Responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* To hold a Diploma/degree awarded by a professional body
* Registered as fit to practice by a professional body, e.g., Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)/ HCPC as a Nurse/Physio/OT/Paramedic
* To have completed the physical assessment and disease management skills course (level 6)
* To be an independent non-medical prescriber or be willing to work towards this within the first 12 months.
* Teaching and mentoring qualification
* Specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
* Professional knowledge acquired supplemented by postgraduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to degree equivalent level.
* Leadership and management course
Experience
* Demonstrates clinical knowledge and skills relevant to the role
* To display effective communication skills, communicating sensitive and contentious information to others
* Able to evidence elements of team leadership experience
* Demonstrates evidence of teaching skills to a range of professionals
Personal Attributes
* Willingness to be challenged
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 Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year (pro rata)
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