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Clinical Nurse Prescriber | Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Job details
Posting date: 15 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 15 May 2024
Location: Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG
Company: Isle of Wight NHS
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6229209/470-23-C-9163-KP-2

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Summary


The Community Rapid Response team have an exciting training opportunity for a Senior Staff Nurse wishing to progress into advanced practice. We are recruiting fora Band 7 Registered Nurse who wishes to join our team. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care.

The successful candidate will provide highly specialist person centred care which always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based. The Registered Nurse must be to willing to carry out advanced assessments and have the ability to prescribe a plan of care in order to safely care for the patient at home and avoid hospital admission.

The team operate 7 days/week from 08:00-18:00/10:00-20:00 and the primary function is to reduce hospitalisation rates for adults, including the provision of an urgent community response.

To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description & person specification document attached. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. We welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

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Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population. Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.

This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.

We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.

On 1stJuly 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.

The team consists of a consultant nurse practitioner, advanced clinical practitioners, registered nurses, physiotherapy, an occupational therapist, associate practitioners, and a social care officer. Referrals come from: primary care, community rehabilitation, local hospice, Age UK, emergency portals, acute wards, and adult social care.

As part of a multi-professional team, the post holder will practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed in line with the relevant code of professional conduct.

To plan and manage complete episodes of care; undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of service users to incorporate pharmacological considerations; making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis and advanced decision making skills.

Participate in change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence based practice, clinical audit, research and education. To promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.

Contribute to the planning and development of integrated services.


This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024

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