NHSHome Nurse | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 pa / pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS2 8HW |
| Company: | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6224365/387-M-2914-EP |
Summary
NHS@Home is an innovative service, providing care for people who are acutely unwell in their own homes across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. It offers an alternative to hospital and helps people return home from hospital more quickly, too.
NHS@Home has five pathways, covering a wide range of conditions including frailty, respiratory, heart failure, and general medical & surgical recovery. Our team provide a very wide range of acute healthcare treatments within the home, in addition to monitoring health conditions and vital signs for deterioration.
Working our team you will utilise a wide set of acute care skills in the community setting. You will contribute to a multi-disciplinary approach, undertaking virtual board rounds and working alongside specialist doctors, advanced clinical practitioners, nurses, AHP's and pharmacists to deliver an effective treatment plan that will make a real difference to the lives of local people.
• Delivering care to patients in their own home across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire based from either from the Weston General Hospital ORBristol Royal Infirmary (which ever is most convenient for you).
• Flexible working
• No night shifts
• Full and part-time opportunities
• Secondments are welcome
• Full induction and continuous training provided
Working within the NHS@Home service, your duties will include:
• Providing acute care to patients with complex and specialist needs in the community, across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
• Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to develop, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Assessing the health and psychosocial needs of the patient within the hospital and community setting.
• Plan and implement treatment and use a wide range of service to meet their needs.
• Utilising a wide range of clinical skills to support the ongoing management of patients in their home environment e.g. delivering IV therapies, venepuncture, cannulation and wound care (not exhaustive list).
• Communicating effectively, networking and liaising to ensure high quality responsive, safe, efficient and compassionate care is provided for our patients, carers and famili
The service uses a mixture of face-to-face visits, phone and video calls, and remote monitoring through digital technology, to help people recover safely in the comfort of their own home.
The service is run in partnership between Sirona care & health, North Bristol Trust, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and BrisDoc.
Join our friendly and innovative team and become part of the future of the NHS.
Secondments are supported and are a great way to experience a new way of delivering nursing care whilst remaining part of UHBW.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed Job Description and Personal Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
The post holder will work in collaboration with the NHS@Home team at the Bristol Royal Infirmary OR Weston General Hospital plus our BNSSG system partners at Sirona and NBT. Hours of operation are 0700-21:30
It is essential that you have daily access to an insured car (business insurance) as you will be driving to people's home to provide nursing care. Travel expenses will be paid.
You must also be registered on the permanent NMC register for this post.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024
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