Job Overview
The Urgent and Emergency care pathways as part of wider Integrated Neighbourhood Teams offers an exciting opportunity to provide acute, unplanned care in patients' homes, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting early discharge. Applicants must have post‑preceptorship experience for this role. The post holder requires a Full UK driving licence and insurance for business use. Applicants must have current valid UK NMC registration & post‑registration experience. The post may require an immunisation and vaccination report. You will work as part of a wider multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective, and personalised care to patients who are acutely unwell but can be managed within their usual place of residence, including clinical assessments, urgent catheter support, administering medications, monitoring vital signs, and supporting recovery in the community.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Responsibilities
- Deliver nursing care to patients in their own homes, including catheter care, wound care, medication administration, and monitoring.
- Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated with escalation of concerns appropriately.
- Provide clinical supervision and leadership to junior team members.
- Be responsible for the provision of effective learning experiences for pre and post registration students.
- Undertake comprehensive risk assessments associated with the care of patients to ensure nurses and carers safety.
- Act as a role model for other staff and students demonstrating high standards of practice and professional conduct.
- Work without direct supervision and problem‑solve with a solution focused mindset.
- Assess and close trauma wounds using steri‑strips and skin adhesives where clinically appropriate.
- Demonstrate highly technical or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management, including administration of IV medications, venous cannulation, venepuncture, management and care of mid and PICC lines, complex patient monitoring, equipment management and point‑of‑care testing.
- Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient data.
- Manage expected (and occasional unexpected) clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need; escalating to a senior member of staff where appropriate, e.g., in an unexpected event.
Qualifications
- Post‑preceptorship experience in a nursing role.
- Full UK driving licence and insurance for business use.
- Current valid UK Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration with post‑registration experience.
- Immunisation and vaccination report available.
- Ability to work independently and problem‑solve with a solution‑focused mindset.
- Experience in managing trauma wounds using sterile strips and skin adhesives.
- Technical competence in IV medications, venous cannulation, venepuncture, PICC lines, point‑of‑care testing.
- Proficiency in IT systems for patient data.
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