Rapid Response Nurse inWembley inWembley PUBLISHED TUE 12 NOV 2024

Band 6: £42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS PERMANENT
ANTICOAGULATION CASELOAD HOLISTIC INTRAVENOUS WEEKEND

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The Central London Community Health Trust is seeking a Band 6 Rapid Response Nurse to join their team at Sudbury Primary Care in Wembley. The role involves providing high-quality, skilled nursing care to patients in their homes, focusing on rapid response, rehabilitation, and post-acute care across various community settings, including weekends and holidays. Key responsibilities include conducting holistic assessments, prioritizing referrals based on urgency, managing caseloads, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe home care and timely discharges while adhering to clinical guidelines and best practice standards.

The successful candidate will utilize their specialist skills to develop comprehensive care plans, perform clinical interventions such as intravenous therapy and palliative care, and actively participate in service development. The position demands strong clinical judgment, the ability to manage complex health needs autonomously, and a commitment to maintaining clinical quality and performance standards within the Rapid Response team.

CLCH are now looking for a Band 6 Rapid Response Nurse to join them at Sudbury Primary Care based in Wembley.

Duties will include

To deliver high quality, skilled nursing care to patients at home and provide rapid response, rehabilitative and post-acute care in a variety of community settings including weekends and bank holidays. The service operates through agreed shift patterns spanning 8am - 10pm 7 days a week
To utilize specialist skills and knowledge to holistically assess needs and provide short term programmed of nursing care for vulnerable adults based on evidence based practice
To focus on service priorities of admissions avoidance and timely supported discharge
To take responsibility for managing the caseload and the team, with the support of the Team Leader
To supplement locality based planned care team and other health services when acute or concentrated nursing care is required
To actively participate in service development activities

To provide skilled, effective and evidence based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings.
To assess referrals made to service, prioritise and respond according to priority, as appropriate both in terms of level and urgency. To respond within agreed timescales as appropriate.
To use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho social needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with patients, carers and the wider Multidisciplinary Team as needed.
To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients' ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing and arranging necessary nursing and supportive packages.
Provide autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/ or complex health needs and long term conditions.
To provide evidenced based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on 'best practice', in order to improve health outcomes and promote choice, e.g. Intravenous therapy, anticoagulation monitoring, palliative care interventions and catheter and bowel management
Work within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary.
Deliver agreed clinical quality and performance standards within the Rapid Response team.