Total 2 job vacancies by Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Job Purpose - Monday to Friday
The service delivers high quality care to patients at in their own home with a primary purpose to prevent hospital attendance/ admission and facilitate early discharge from hospital. The service operates from 8am to 10pm, 7 days a week.



The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with Acute Trusts, the Adult Community Nursing Teams, other health care professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver excellent standards of patient care.





Thepostholderwillberequired to:



· Work on a rotational shift basis within the Herts Unplanned Care Team – service operating hours 8am 10pm 7 day a week.

· Be the clinical leader for designated shifts on a rotational basis responsible for day-to-day management of the service.

· Take designated responsibility for discrete areas of operational management, line management and clinical practice.

· Prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision.



· Utilise advanced clinical and diagnostic skills and expert knowledge to carry out thorough assessments of physical and psycho-social needs in order to develop a comprehensive short term care plan aiming to optimise health and wellbeing that will prevent a hospital attendance/ admission or allow early discharge home.

· Provide direct advanced, autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/ or complex health needs and long term conditions.

· Work within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures and Patient Group Directions (PGD’s) utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary.

· Carry out specialist clinical care and treatments based on best possible evidence that will improve health outcomes. This will include cannulation, administrationofintravenousinfusionsandantibiotics,anticoagulationmonitoring,palliativecareinterventions andcatheterandbowel management.

· Deliveragreedclinicalqualityandperformancestandardswithinpractice.

· Toassessreferralstotheteamandrespondwithin2hourstoensure adequate care and support for patients and carers.

· Be goal and outcome orientated, whilst maintaining a high level ofperformance.

· WorkwithintheprinciplesoftheSingleAssessmentProcess.

Why join?
• Earn more per hour -bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
• See the best shifts first –bank staff get priority over all agency workers
• Book the shifts you want on your phone –build your own rota on our bank booking system
• Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team –a local teamdedicated to helping you
• Access NHS benefits –such as NHS pension contributions and discounts
• Access Trust benefits –get support with your career development and mental health
• Become part of an integrated team –feel more valued and supported in your work

Please see attached Job Description for a comprehensive list of role specific duties and responsibilities

Both verbal and written communication skills, and experience of team working will be essential to the role. Strong interpersonal skills will also be essential. You must be an NMC registered, UK based nurse to apply for this role, as it is 'zero-hours' it does not attract visa sponsorship. You must also have at least 6 months acute experience.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024

Job Purpose - Monday to Friday
The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with other health care professionals,statutory and voluntary agencies and the Planned Care locality teams to deliver excellent standards of patient care for patients requiring support in unplanned care.

The post holder will be required to:

· To deliver high quality, skilled clinical care to patients at home and provide rapid response, rehabilitative and post-acute carein a varietyofcommunitysettingsincludingweekendsandbankholidays.The service operates through pre-rostered shift patterns spanning 8am -10pm7daysaweek.

· Toutilisespecialist skillsandknowledgetoholisticallyassessneedsand provideshort term programmes of nursing care for vulnerable adults basedonevidencebasedpractice.

· To work, as required, on a flexible basis to cover all roles required within the team including in-reach support at Watford General Hospital.

· Toworkwithinandacrossprofessional andorganisational boundaries,liaisingwithGP’s other professionalsandstatutoryandvoluntaryagenciestodeliverindividualisedand expertclinicalcaretoahighstandardtoclients.

· Totakeresponsibilityformanagingthecaseloadandtheteam,withthe supportoftheSenior Nurses.

· TosupporttheLocality Manager/Clinical Leadand colleaguesindeliveringhighqualitycarethatdeliversbestvalue,andmeetstherequirementsofcommissioners.





· To provide skilled, effective and evidence based clinical care to patients in a variety of community settings.

· To use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho­ socialneedsanddevelopacomprehensiveandconcordantplanofcarewith patients, carersandthewiderMultidisciplinaryTeamasneeded.

· To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients' ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting,providingandarrangingnecessarynursingandsupportivepackages.

· Provide autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/ or complex health needs and long termconditions.

· To support appropriate and timely case-finding of patients suitable for the service including working to support in-reach to local acute trusts as needed

· To provide evidenced based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on'bestpractice',inordertoimprovehealthoutcomesandpromote choice,e.g.Intravenoustherapy, anticoagulation monitoring, palliative care interventionsandcatheterandbowelmanagement.

Why join?
• Earn more per hour -bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
• See the best shifts first –bank staff get priority over all agency workers
• Book the shifts you want on your phone –build your own rota on our bank booking system
• Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team –a local teamdedicated to helping you
• Access NHS benefits –such as NHS pension contributions and discounts
• Access Trust benefits –get support with your career development and mental health
• Become part of an integrated team –feel more valued and supported in your work

Please see attached Job Description for a comprehensive list of role specific duties and responsibilities

Both verbal and written communication skills, and experience of team working will be essential to the role. Strong interpersonal skills will also be essential. You must be an NMC registered, UK based nurse to apply for this role, as it is 'zero-hours' it does not attract visa sponsorship. You must also have at least 6 months acute experience.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Nov 2024