Urgent Community Response Nurse / Paramedic | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 pa inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 December 2024 |
| Location: | London, W8 7NX |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6774357/333-G-CIS-0183-A |
Summary
Are you caring, compassionate and committed to providing the best service possible to patients?
Do you want to help deliver care to people in their homes in the Inner London Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith & Fulham with an opportunity to work with a supportive skilled team and develop yourself to provide admission avoidance care?
Make a difference to those who require rapid response in their own homes - with enthusiasm, energy and passion - we are looking for Band 6
Registered Nurses or Paramedics who have experience in community or tertiary services and want to continue developing as independent practitioners.(Newly Qualified staff cannot be considered for this role).
Due to an opportunity to grow our teams we are aiming to recruit the best team players who will be passionate about providing care, proactive, engaged and committed to delivering an excellent standard of care in the home to those in need.
Community experience is not essential but applicants will need to demonstrate the Trust core Values and that they understand the issues involved in working in people's own homes, working alone and being able to work outside of regular working hours, weekends, public holidays and face to face visits will be essential.
This position will require you to visit various locations throughout the London Boroughs of H&F, K&C and Westminster. We run a seven-day service and our working hours are 8 am until 10 pm/365 per year.
We are a supportive and fast-paced team’s that strives for the very best. We provide an excellent development and supervision programme and a first-class learning experience in all aspects of community care. We also make it easy for you to access continuing professional development resources, which will support you in completing qualifications or modules to help you develop.
We want you to make us your future.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
• To assess, plan, implement and provide evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carer’s and other appropriate members of the multi professional team.
• To have agreed areas of responsibility and work as part of the team.
• To provide nursing care to patient in the community
• To see patients with potentially undifferentiated diagnosis including; objective assessment, physical assessment, treatment, follow-up and developing care plans.
• To ensure all patients on the caseload are managed well and discharged safely either to their GP or for further ongoing assessment, rehabilitation treatment and care.
• To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and events in Primary and Secondary Health Care.
• Liaising with community services partners
• To be an active member of the team and the team’s development.
• To provide support and health education for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.
• To comply with professional codes of conduct.
• To be able to work flexibly and relieve colleagues/rotate across the three boroughs as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.
• To ensure that own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies.
This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024
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