You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes.
This post will involve working within the Intermediate Care Team with strong links to the Community Nursing Team. To work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing holistic nursing assessment, nursing care, support and advice to patients in their own homes reducing hospital admission and/or length of stay.
Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and the local voluntary sector services. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and ‘can do’ attitude.
Key Responsibilities:
* To provide initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs and multidisciplinary needs of patients and carers in the community. When planning a programme of care, physical, social and emotional and cultural factors are taken into consideration and suitably qualified staff used to facilitate the level of care agreed.
* To work as an autonomous practitioner in the planning and implementation of nursing treatment programmes.
* To advise and instruct carers and patients on health and wellbeing issues, and self-care strategies.
* To carry out specialist and shared complex nursing assessments, to include continuing health care, medication review, prescribing and palliative care.
* To utilise a broad range of specialised nursing skills and knowledge aligning practice to the organisations Medicines Policy for Registered professionals and the NMC Standards for Medicines management (2007) ensuring assessment and competence is maintained and recorded as a nurse prescriber.
* To monitor and evaluate care programmes for patients and carers, promoting effective co-ordination and continuity of patient care.
* To formulate and undertake the nursing care of patients as agreed with the patients themselves and their carers, following a patient contract, within the home environment.
* The care to be carried out is evidence based. Judgement and analysis is used to compare treatment options.
The Newton Abbot Intermediate Care Team are based at Sherborne house. We cover a large geographical patch covering the practice population of nine GP surgeries.
A busy but friendly and supportive team we are committed to staff development through education and training helping staff realise their potential in topics of interest to them and encouraging career pathway progression.
We pride ourselves on delivering high standards of care and building relationships within the communities we are part of.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Jessica Sheardown
Job title: Intermediate Care Team Lead
Email address: jessica.sheardown@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0300 500 40 42
Tara Paine
Clinical Physiotherapy Lead
Newton Abbot Intermediate Care Team
0300 500 4042
tara.paine@nhs.net
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