Band 6 Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward Nurse in Solihull inSolihull PUBLISHED MON 9 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section
Job description
The Urgent Community Response Team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission within their own home within 2 hours of referral to the service. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors.
The post holder will work in the Urgent community response team and Virtual Wards to assist in the prevention of inappropriate hospital admissions and the facilitation of hospital discharge in line with the overall objectives of the service.
The post holder will ensure access to Urgent Health Assessments, provide and monitor short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions.
To work in partnership with primary, secondary and other health and social care providers, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.
To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.
To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better
The post holder will be expected to work within a flexible working pattern over a 7-day week in the urgent community response team as required.
* Carry out comprehensive holistic assessments of the care needs of people referred to the service seeking support and advice from senior colleagues in situations that are outside the post holder's sphere of competence.
* With support where necessary from senior colleagues, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care designed to maintain the patient in his / her own home.
* In situations where the patient cannot be maintained safely at home facilitate admission to the most appropriate setting.
* Demonstrate, teach and supervise basic nursing care that families can safely provide between visits.
* In conjunction with therapists, measure for and order special adaptations and equipment indicated by the assessment and plan of care.
* Carry out a range of nursing interventions, to include cannulation and IV drug
administration, working within the scope of professional practice
* Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with colleagues and stakeholders, utilising electronic methods of communication within the remit of the Data Protection Act ensuring clinical information is conveyed within a timeframe that ensures patient safety.
* Ensure safe and effective clinical practice.
* Enhance patient experience.
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