Acute Care at Home Practitioner inSwindon inSwindon PUBLISHED 14 DEC 2023

Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata  PERMANENT 
The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths.

The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths. This will include assessment, developing care plans, setting treatment objectives and maintaining associated records.2. To clinically assess the patient utilising the skills acquired from undertaking the physical and clinical reasoning course (PACR) course or equivalent, to ensure the safe assessment of patients in their diagnosis and treatment plan.3. The post holder will contribute to the leadership, management and organisation of the Hospital at Home team as required, ensuring a standard of care that is evidence based, clinically effective and consistent with contemporary models of care.4. To communicate effectively with Service Users and Carers, acting as a source of counsel, advisor and listener within acute, chronic and terminal illness.5. To communicate effectively with other health and social care professionals, including GPs.6. To develop positive relationships with service users and their carers ensuring that open and effective communication is in place.7. To professionally and sensitively deal with delicate and sensitive issues pertaining to service users and their carers including dealing with anxious, distressed service users and relatives at times

We are recruiting for a advertising for a Band 6 nurse to work collaboratively within our integrated Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response team, now called Acute Care at Home service delivering care to acutely unwell patients in their own home and those patients that will require an urgent community assessment and provision of care within a timely response. This service operates between the hours of 8am and 8pm, seven days per week, with an expectation to support our community nursing teams until 22.00 hours. The successful applicant will be required to take shared responsibility for the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and making onward referral when appropriate. Supporting patients to optimise and maintain their independence in the home environment will be achieved in partnership with the wider community clinician teams, primary care health and social care professionals. Care will be delivered within operational and clinical protocols that support safe high-quality clinical practice

The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths. This will include assessment, developing care plans, setting treatment objectives and maintaining associated records and to clinically assess the patient utilising the skills acquired from undertaking the physical and clinical reasoning course (PACR) course or equivalent, to ensure the safe assessment of patients in their diagnosis and treatment plan.

The post holder will contribute to the leadership, management and organisation of the Hospital at Home team as required, ensuring a standard of care that is evidence based, clinically effective and consistent with contemporary models of care.This service is provided 365 days per year therefore it is a requirement that the postholder will work weekends and twilight shifts and will require a driving licence and access to a car with business insurance.

The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths. This will include assessment, developing care plans, setting treatment objectives and maintaining associated records.2. To clinically assess the patient utilising the skills acquired from undertaking the physical and clinical reasoning course (PACR) course or equivalent, to ensure the safe assessment of patients in their diagnosis and treatment plan.3. The post holder will contribute to the leadership, management and organisation of the Hospital at Home team as required, ensuring a standard of care that is evidence based, clinically effective and consistent with contemporary models of care.4. To communicate effectively with Service Users and Carers, acting as a source of counsel, advisor and listener within acute, chronic and terminal illness.5. To communicate effectively with other health and social care professionals, including GPs.6. To develop positive relationships with service users and their carers ensuring that open and effective communication is in place.7. To professionally and sensitively deal with delicate and sensitive issues pertaining to service users and their carers including dealing with anxious, distressed service users and relatives at times

We are recruiting for a advertising for a Band 6 nurse to work collaboratively within our integrated Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response team, now called Acute Care at Home service delivering care to acutely unwell patients in their own home and those patients that will require an urgent community assessment and provision of care within a timely response. This service operates between the hours of 8am and 8pm, seven days per week, with an expectation to support our community nursing teams until 22.00 hours. The successful applicant will be required to take shared responsibility for the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and making onward referral when appropriate. Supporting patients to optimise and maintain their independence in the home environment will be achieved in partnership with the wider community clinician teams, primary care health and social care professionals. Care will be delivered within operational and clinical protocols that support safe high-quality clinical practice

The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths. This will include assessment, developing care plans, setting treatment objectives and maintaining associated records and to clinically assess the patient utilising the skills acquired from undertaking the physical and clinical reasoning course (PACR) course or equivalent, to ensure the safe assessment of patients in their diagnosis and treatment plan.

The post holder will contribute to the leadership, management and organisation of the Hospital at Home team as required, ensuring a standard of care that is evidence based, clinically effective and consistent with contemporary models of care.This service is provided 365 days per year therefore it is a requirement that the postholder will work weekends and twilight shifts and will require a driving licence and access to a car with business insurance.



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