Community Staff Nurse inMaidstone inMaidstone PUBLISHED 31 AUG 2024
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This service is part of the Urgent Care Services which provides a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home.
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 prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control and management via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observations and 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
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Dewar Job title: Operational Lead Email address:
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 prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control and management via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observations and 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.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Dewar Job title: Operational Lead Email address:
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 prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control and management via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observations and 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
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Dewar Job title: Operational Lead Email address:
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