Senior Community Nurse inFinchley inFinchley PUBLISHED
TUE 10 DEC 2024
The Senior Community Nurse will utilize advanced skills to evaluate patients' physical and psychosocial needs, create comprehensive care plans in collaboration with patients, their families, and multidisciplinary teams, and conduct risk assessments to ensure patient safety at home. The position requires delivering autonomous clinical care for patients with complex health conditions, utilizing evidence-based interventions, and adhering to clinical guidelines while also striving to meet performance standards within the Rapid Response team.
CLCH are now seeking a Senior Community Nurse 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
The post holder will be responsible forTo maintain, nurture and support working relationship with all staff working across the NorthDivision, unplanned care team and across all integrated locality teams. Specific responsibilitiesin relation to locality managers/clinical lead, other integrated team colleagues of all professionsand GPs.
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.
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