Community Equipment Nurse inDarlington inDarlington PUBLISHED
MON 11 NOV 2024
This newly established post is a 9-month secondment, requiring the successful candidate to manage their own caseload, with opportunities for flexible working, including both base and remote duties. Key functions also include providing clinical input into the equipment catalogue, leading in-service training, conducting audits, and participating in service reviews to ensure high-quality care for the population of County Durham and Darlington. Travel within the area to visit service users is necessary.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust are one of the largest integrated organisations in the Country, providing hospital and community services to a popluations of over 650,000. We are an ambitious and innovative organisation with a talented workforce of over 7,000 colleagues. Our Vision is to be 'Right First Time, Every Time' and our mission is to provide safe, compassionate and joined up care to the population of County Durham and Darlington.
-Do you have enthusiasm and motivation to take on new challenges with our forward thinking Trust?
-Are you an excellent team worker but also have the drive to lead and infleunce change?
-Do you strive or aspire to provide seamless holistic patient centred care within a progressive multi disciplinary team?
We are looking for a dynamic nurse to support an expansion of the clinical advisory team based along side the community equipment service (Medequip). The primary focus for the posts will be to clinically review care home residents and their equipment to support effective use of the equipment service, manage care home long term loan equipment and support development of community equipment prescription pathways
As a member of the organisation the post holder will work within the newly expanded clinical advisory team supporting the established Clinical Equipment advisor and the commissioning team managing the equipment services contract. The post holder will be able to independently manage their own caseload and have the opportunity to work at base and remotely dependent on duties.
The role will primarily focus on clinically reviewing care home residents to ensure the equipment provided from the community equipment service is being used appropriately and is traceable
Opportunities to:
- Expand knowledge of community equipment and have clinical input into the equipment catalogue choices
- Develop links with commissioning
- Be involved with developing equipment prescription pathways
-Lead and participate in peer support and in service training
-Work within a dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team
The successful applicant would work Monday to Friday in the community equipment service.
About us
This role is a newly established post for a 9 month secondment to support the established clinical equipment advisor.
The community equipment service (Medequip) is managed by commissioning teams from North East and North Cumbria ICB, Durham County Council and Darlington Borough Council. The post holder will provide support to the established Clinical Equipment Advisor to provide clinical support to commissioning teams and equipment prescribers with the aim where appropriate and ensure right equipment at the right time for service users. The post holder will be aware of budget responsibilities and be involved in authorisation of equipment.
There is the opportunity to work flexibly with the post holder managing their own caseload. There is the requirement for the post holder to be able to travel anywhere within County Durham and Darlington to visit service users in their own home.
The post holder will support with audits and service reviews.
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