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Community Staff Nurse | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,521 - £41,956 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 November 2024 |
| Location: | Cheam, Sutton, SM2 8EP |
| Company: | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6637951/343-6637951-RB-SK |
Summary
You will be working as as part of a multi-professional team managing a GP-aligned caseload of patients in the community, ensuring the needs of the patients are identified and met. Promoting the independence of patients, assisting them to maintain/or improve their own physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
We work in collaboration with other teams and colleagues in the community, primary care and social services, to ensure innovative solutions to enhance the patient experience.
· To work as part of a community integrated service that is responsive to the needs of housebound patients within a define caseload.
· To reduce inappropriate hospital admissions, minimise hospital lengths of stay and support vulnerable clients at home by undertaking comprehensive holistic assessment and care plans in order to facilitate and coordinate packages of care in partnership with GPs, patients, health and social care colleagues.
· Work closely with aligned GP surgery, Clinical Commissioning Group and all relevant primary and secondary care and social care professionals, voluntary agencies and London Ambulance Service.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Community Staff Nurse role at Epsom and St Helier.
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Oct 2024