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Senior Out of Hours Nurse | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 April 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR2 3TU |
| Company: | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7084784/839-7084784-MP |
Summary
As an exciting time to join the UCR Out of Hours Team, we are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Senior Nurse to join our OOH team.
You will be a dynamic, motivated team player that enjoys working overnight and the autonomy of community working.
Experience of dealing with palliative care, catheter care and triage is preferred but full training will be given.
• To coordinate and triage patient visits and provide shift leadership to the Out of Hours Team overnight.
• To undertake patient visits as necessary as part of this role.
• To oversee, triage and clinically prioritise OOH referrals and dispatch the appropriate Team.
• Use Web Fleet Satellite navigation technology to dispatch closest available team.
• To act as a shift leader in the absence of the Clinical Lead Manager and Clinical Lead. To contribute in a clinical capacity, the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their homes, care homes and the travelling community, by assessing, planning,
implementing urgent unplanned care.
• The Out of Hours team operates between 17:30 and 08:00. This role requires flexibility (including weekend working) in order to meet the needs of the service between the service operating hours.
• Coordinate the Out of Hours team to provide care across Norfolk and Waveney, and to utilise demand and capacity models to reflect workload need.
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of patient care, and develop care plans, using clinical reasoning skills, which may need to be delivered from a range of
options
• Assess patients’ holistic needs, communicate complex and sensitive information to patients and carers as to their assessment, diagnoses, prognosis, and treatment plan
• Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, adjust explanations in order to gain
understanding, consent and concordance.
• Use tact and persuasive skills in order to gain the patient’s cooperation in their care management plan. Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professions, and the voluntary sector to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately
• Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit, and that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis
• Demonstrate dexterity and co-ordination when using specialist equipment and fine tools, advanced sensory skills, manual and mobilising skills
• Ensure informed consent is obtained prior to initiating interventions
• If exposed to bodily fluids, infected material, blood products, utilise universal
precautions and adhere to infection control policies
• To assess patients with long term conditions, the frail and elderly, palliative care to
achieve quality of life and independence where possible
• To work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital
• To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital
• Undertake risk assessments and complete incident forms as required and act upon
them appropriately
• To undertake clinical shifts and patient visits to maintain own nursing competencies
• Utilise mobile working and promote the usage within the OOH Team
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Apr 2025
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