Clinical Lead Intermediate Care Nurse | Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum including HCAS (Outer) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Hounslow, TW3 3EL |
| Company: | Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6198507/779-NN-6198507-NM-Z |
Summary
The Hounslow Community Recovery Service provides rehabilitation and reablement for adults in Hounslow following an acute injury, illness or change in health or functional status aiming to improve functional independence and safety. The service is provided in partnership with London Borough of Hounslow (LBH) and includes the LBH Reablement Team.
These are new posts created to support the health needs of patients on the rehabilitation and reablement caseloads, providing direct nursing assessment and interventions alongside supporting, advising and educating the wider team to enhance clinical practice within the service. In this role you will work with people to improve their independence in management of their health conditions and treatments, for example, medication management, pressure care, prevention of exacerbation of long term conditions. You will work closely with the occupational therapists, physiotherapists, support workers and reablement team.
The main duties of the role are outlines in the job description. These are new posts and so we are seeking applicants who are excited for a new challenge and have a desire to explore the opportunities for a new role within an established intermediate care team. You will be supported to complete your independent prescribing training as required.
The service is proud to deliver the following -
A discharge to assess pathway to support early transition from hospital to home
Close working arrangements with local Integrated Discharge Hub to support joint discharge planning
Integrated health and social care reablement service
High quality patient centred intermediate care in peoples own homes to support functional independence and safety
Close working with rapid response, neurorehabilitation, falls and district nursing, ensuring joined up care planning and joint working where appropriate.
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) provide a wide range of healthcare services for the population of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow.
The Clinical Services Directorates have a wide range of responsibilities to manage, including co-ordinating and delivering community primary care services on behalf of the Trust. A wide range of these healthcare services are delivered by staff in the community, who include medical staff, paediatric therapists, therapy assistants, health visitors, specialist nurses, nurses, nursery nurses, paediatric phlebotomists and healthcare support workers with the support of administrative staff working in localities with GPs, other health professionals, early years, education, and social care professionals.
The digitalisation of health services is underway with a requirement to become paper-light by 2023 through improving the use of digital tools and adopting mobile and agile working practices and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical delivery.
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This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Apr 2024