Band 6 Nurse NHS@Home

Sirona care & health; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to transforming home healthcare in the community. As part of a dynamic team, you will utilize your clinical expertise to provide acute care to patients with complex needs in their homes. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in people's lives while enjoying comprehensive NHS benefits, including generous annual leave and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme. If you are passionate about healthcare and eager to grow professionally, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

27+ days annual leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Professional development opportunities

Comprehensive NHS benefits

Qualifications

• Exemplary clinical skills for acute patient care.
• Strong communication and IT skills for effective patient management.

Responsibilities

• Triage patients and coordinate daily service tasks.
• Lead monitoring and assessment of patients in the @home service.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Communication Skills

IT Skills

Troubleshooting Skills

Education

Nursing Qualification

Healthcare Degree

Tools

Clinical Software Systems

Job description

NHS@Home is an innovative service, providing care for people who are acutely unwell in their own homes across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. It offers an alternative to hospital and helps people return home from hospital more quickly, to.

The service uses a mixture of face-to-face visits, phone and video calls, and remote monitoring through digital technology, to help people recover safely in the comfort of their own home.

NHS@Home has pathways, covering a wide range of conditions including frailty, respiratory, heart failure, OPAT, Infection and general surgical recovery. Our team provide a very wide range of acute healthcare treatments within the home, in addition to monitoring health conditions and vital signs for deterioration.

The service is run in partnership between Sirona care & health, North Bristol Trust, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and BrisDoc.

"Knowing I was being discharged into the care of the NHS@Home respiratory service made the world of difference to me - I felt very reassured by the fact that the respiratory team were monitoring me so frequently it helped me feel safer and less afraid." -N.L, service user

Your duties will require exemplary clinical, communication, IT and trouble shooting skills to enable you to:

• Triage patients, using multiple systems to support decision making.
• Coordinate daily allocation of service tasks to other staff including administration, to ensure that all tasks are completed and enabling safe and timely care.
• Lead all monitoring and assessment of patient in the @home service, advising on care and treatment and reporting changes in patient condition as required in line with local protocols and guidance.
• Providing acute care to patients (in their homes) with complex and specialist needs in the community, across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
• Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to develop, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Assessing the health and psychosocial needs of the patient within the hospital and community setting.
• Plan and implement treatment and use a wide range of service to meet their needs.
• Utilising a wide range of clinical skills to support the ongoing management of patients in their home environment e.g. delivering IV therapies, venepuncture, cannulation and wound care.
• Communicating effectively, networking and liaising to ensure high quality responsive, safe, efficient and compassionate care is provided for our patients, carers and families.
  
  

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jenny Allam Job title: NHS@home Hub Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07920776275

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