Community Staff Nurse inMaidstone inMaidstone PUBLISHED 10 DEC 2023
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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Find out more about the community difference here.
Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This post is to support the Virtual Ward model which is a collaboration with the acute trust to deliver hospital standard treatment within a patients' home. The virtual ward philosophy is that care is led by a specialist and provides acute clinical care at home which would otherwise be provided in a hospital for a short duration of up to 14 days. This community service is nurse led with access to support at the Virtual monitoring Hub.
This service is part of the Urgent Care Services which provides a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home. Our aim is to preventunnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hoursfor patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell peoplethat would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days ayear.Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control andmanagement via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observationsand fundamental nursing care.This service is providing nursing care within patients' homes and covering West Kent. The ability to drive is essential to this post.
- Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care.
- The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient
- To order equipment and send onward referrals as necessary
- To support in the supervision and development of all junior staff including Health Care Assistants and Students
- To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
- To undertake a range of competent clinical interventions and identify any deterioration in patients' condition, taking appropriate action
- Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs associated within a specific speciality
- To support in duty role and complete triages
Additional Working Pattern: Long days covering a 7 day services
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Find out more about the community difference here.
Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This post is to support the Virtual Ward model which is a collaboration with the acute trust to deliver hospital standard treatment within a patients' home. The virtual ward philosophy is that care is led by a specialist and provides acute clinical care at home which would otherwise be provided in a hospital for a short duration of up to 14 days. This community service is nurse led with access to support at the Virtual monitoring Hub.
This service is part of the Urgent Care Services which provides a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home. Our aim is to preventunnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hoursfor patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell peoplethat would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days ayear.Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control andmanagement via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observationsand fundamental nursing care.This service is providing nursing care within patients' homes and covering West Kent. The ability to drive is essential to this post.
- Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care.
- The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient
- To order equipment and send onward referrals as necessary
- To support in the supervision and development of all junior staff including Health Care Assistants and Students
- To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
- To undertake a range of competent clinical interventions and identify any deterioration in patients' condition, taking appropriate action
- Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs associated within a specific speciality
- To support in duty role and complete triages
Additional Working Pattern: Long days covering a 7 day services
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