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Return to Nursing - Senior Healthcare Support Worker

Job details
Posting date: 24 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum, pro rata
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 24 May 2024
Location: Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Company: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6153308/310-ASMH-6153308

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Summary

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.


This post is a great development opportunity for a Band 4 Return to Practice Nurse looking to gain experience and insight into working with adults with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to practice a full range of specialist nursing skills in mental and physical health while attending a return to practice nursing course through Angla Ruskin University one day a week.

The length of the return to practice course will depend on previous experience and assessed competencies. The candidate will be a supernumerary member of the team while engaged on the return to practice course. Following the completion of the course the practitioner will transition to a band 5 nursing role on S3.
• Carry out clinical observations on patients, recognising, recording, and reporting abnormalities and changes in patients' condition to the Registered Practitioner.
• Assist in planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual programmes of care for patients.
• Assist in ensuring patients' nutritional needs are met
• Participating in meal preparation.
• Providing meal supervision and post meal observations.
• Undertake phlebotomy training and training in conducting ECG
• Participate in the process of involving relatives/carers in the provision of patient care.
• Utilise early warning score indicators in eating disorders (Marsi MEWS) to recognise any patient deterioration/sudden change in condition, reporting immediately to a Registered Practitioner.
• Prepare and undertake interventions consistent with evidenced based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet patients' needs.
• Participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings and CPA meetings
• Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times.
• Contribute to the prevention and control of infection in line with Trust guidelines.
• Ensure that essential information on the patients' condition and progress is recorded in accordance with Trust guidelines.
• Understand the need to maintain and respect patient confidentiality.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities


• The Return to Practice Nurse will be undertaking a training programme within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Anglia Ruskin University. A placement within an agreed clinical area will be undertaken as part of the course. A minimum of 150 hours will be spent in clinical practice.
• The Return to Practice Nurse will assist in the overall implementation and evaluation of care as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• The Return to Practice Nurse is expected to plan, implement, deliver, and maintain high standards of care.
• The Return to Practice Nurse will be skilled in taking appropriate action(s) to achieve the planned outcome.
• The Return to Practice Nurse is expected to work under supervision across a 24-hour service within an agreed clinical environment.
• The Return to Practice Nurse will be expected to practice in accordance with Trust policies, guidelines, standards, and statutory requirements and operate within defined competency boundaries.
• It is required that Return to Practice Nurses will commit to undertake the formal education of the course and successfully complete all components of the training programme within the contract period.


This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024

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