The post holder will work beyond normal professional boundaries as a Registered Nurse and will take responsibility, using a case management approach to work with the patient, family, carer, and the patient's GP to manage the patients' delivering a collaborative approach for avoidable hospital admissions. You will work closely with primary care, LAS, 111, secondary care, social care and other third sector organisations., + Under the support and guidance of the ACP team, you will review and make clinical judgements, which will require assessment, planning and implementation of treatment, ensuring that all specialist patients and their carers have access to appropriate advice and support.
+ The post holder will autonomously review patients at home. These patients will have already been assessed by a senior ACP with a plan in place, and your responsibility will be to support the existing clinical management plan with the support of the ACP team and under the guidance of our frailty consultant.
+ You will also support the team with our falls pickup service.
+ To work with the multidisciplinary team across an integrated pathway of care to deliver quality standards in line with NICE guidance.
+ To work with the ACP specialist team to ensure that all patients have equitable access to investigations, treatment and follow-up care.
+ To work with the UCR team to develop best practice in line with NICE guidance.
+ To work with the team to develop guidelines to enhance optimal management of patients.
+ To collect appropriate data against NICE guidance. To use audit as a tool to improve practice and evaluate services.
+ To work with the team to implement recommendations from National audits and benchmarking.
Please see the attached candidate information pack for full responsibilities of this role.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, + To develop own specialist clinical knowledge and skills and participate in the development of other staff
+ To reflect on own practice through clinical supervision/mentorship
+ To provide a comprehensive nursing service for patients with conditions within the specialty.
+ To work in close liaison with the multi-disciplinary team across the pathway in order to meet the needs of patients and their famillies, and to aim for seamless care.
+ To use clinical judgement and skills in decision making to manage this caseload of patients. To develop skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct appropriate intervention.
+ To assist in the development of the service
+ To vigorously promote the patient's participation in decision-making, enabling informed choice of treatment.
+ To contribute to any audits requested by the Trust, Commissioners or Nationally.
+ To identify deteriorating patients and take the appropriate action to manage the situation, liaising with interdisciplinary team as appropriate.
+ To obtain valid and effective consent from patients prior to any investigations and treatment. Please see the attached candidate information pack for full responsibilities of this role.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2x enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 6 nurses to join our Urgent care response (UCR) team on 6 months fixed term or secondment contracts .UCR is part of the NHS Long Term Plan and Ageing Well Programme to support England's ageing population and those with complex needs.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.