Community Night Sister/Charge Nurse

Integrated Care System; Woking; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the NHS as a Band 6 UCR Practitioner, offering 24/7 community services in North West Surrey. This role involves patient assessments and individualized care, working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team to support care in the community through various medical needs and conditions.

Benefits

NHS pay and pensions

Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• A minimum of two years post-registration experience required.
• Experience in managing complex care packages necessary.
• Clinical audit participation is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced assessment and care planning for patients with frailty.
• Work collaboratively with UCR clinicians and Clinical Lead.
• Manage patient assessments and support acute hospital admission avoidance.

Skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Clinical skills

Patient advocacy

Education

Registered General Nurse

BSc/Diploma related to HCPC

Post registration qualification

Job description

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team aspires to provide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic. There is the flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation, this advert is for predominantly for out of hours, and you can work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty whilst working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.

Depending on start date, you may be paid on the 24/25 scales with backdated pay being processed once the new pay scales come in to effect.

Please note we do NOT offer UKVI sponsorship, all applicants require right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

To work closely with the UCR clinicians and Clinical Lead as well as (ACPs) & Clinical Leads for frailty, Community Nursing, Frailty GPs, Adult Social Care, community services and the third sector to provide fast reactive services for patients to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions- Falls; Decompensation of Frailty; Reduced Function/Decondition/reduced mobility; Urgent equipment provision, Confusion / Delirium, Palliative / EOL crisis support; Urgent Catheter Care, Urgent support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer breakdown.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/B1406-community-health-services-two-hour-urgent-community-response-standard.pdf

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About us

CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longestestablished NHS community services provider, so our 500+ employees getNHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of5%.

Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including thecare certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access tothe Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management andleadership courses and programmes.

We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion,Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council calledThe Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices areheard at Board level.CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focusedindividual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!

We welcome candidates fromall backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying forand if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the namedindividual for this advert, or our recruitment team.

Job responsibilities

1.1To work closely with the UCRclinicians and Clinical Lead as well as (ACPs) & Clinical Leads forfrailty, Community Nursing, Frailty GPs, Adult Social Care, community servicesand the third sector to provide fast reactive services for patients to supportacute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9Common Critical Conditions- Falls; Decompensation of Frailty; Reduced Function/Decondition/reduced mobility;Urgent equipment provision, Confusion / Delirium, Palliative / EOL crisissupport; Urgent Catheter Care, Urgent support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer breakdown. [https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/B1406-community-health-services-two-hour-urgent-community-response-standard.pdf ]

1.2To provide advanced assessment and care planning, including historytaking and physical assessment for patients with frailty.

1.3To work closely with the frailty GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners& Clinical Leads for UCR & Frailty, adult social care and the thirdsector carers and patients to assist in proactively identifying and managingpatients with frailty and supporting them and their carers in the developmentand delivery of personalised care plans.

1.4To provide strong holistic assessment and treatment planning of patientswith frailty, without direct supervision.

1.5To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues andspecifically, primary care and community teams and Social Care professionals,leading and facilitating a patient or client focused, co-ordinated casemanagement approach across primary and secondary care for people who are mostvulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admission to hospital.

1.6To participate in and influence efforts across health and social servicesto shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice,improve quality of life, promote self-management and assure early interventionthrough the proactive provision of care in or as close to the patients ownhome as possible.

1.7The UCR clinicianwill work across the caseload and the single point of access or (equivalent),using their clinical skills to identify the needs of patients and the correctservices to liaise with.

1.8The UCR clinicianwill provide expertise within their professional discipline, to the wider team.

1.9Provide professionalleadership within the team, supporting the Clinical leads for UCR, and the Band7 Team Leads in managing the team and ensuring safe and effective staffinglevels and provision of resources to ensure continuous service delivery andenhancing clinical practice.

1.10 Adviseon the promotion of health and prevention of illness and provide information toindividuals and groups to prevent disease, where possible. Recognise situationsthat may be detrimental to health for example housing, social and economicfactors and refer to an appropriate agency and liaise with members of theCommunity Care Team.

1.11 Toprovide case management using extended skills where appropriately trained toavoid hospital admission and manage sometimes complex clinical needs in thecommunity setting.

1.12 Toprovide assessment of patients, using analytical and judgment skills. Toprovide appropriate patient centred treatment using evidence-based practicewhere-ever possible. Patients will present with acute or chronic conditions andcomplex multi-system pathologies e.g. neuro, respiratory conditions,orthopaedic rehabilitation and age-related deterioration.

1.13 Todevise effective, personalised plans of care for each patient with specifictherapeutic knowledge, recognizing him or her as an individual. The plan ofcare, which has been developed in conjunction with the patient, carer, andrelevant others, should be outcome based and ensure appropriate pathways ofcare and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

1.14 Thegoals and objectives of any intervention are clearly established andnegotiated, and where appropriate can be assessed through use of outcomemeasures/ objective markers.

1.15 Toprovide a holistic and therapeutic treatment programme or where appropriatedirect the intervention as necessary through UCR Band 5 Clinicians, CommunityRehab Assistants, HCAs or other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Person Specification

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Broad range of enhanced clinical skills
• Ability to advocate patient issues
• Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
• Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise
• Ability to understand and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and apply to practice.
• Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management
• Computer literate including emails and spreadsheets.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Personal Qualities

• Car driver with valid licence and access to a car for work purposes
• Reliable and flexible
• Ability to work well in stressful situations
• Innovative and adaptable
• Commitment to attend forums or training as learning needs are identified

Experience

• A minimum of two years post registration experience
• Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people
• Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting
• Involved in the implementation and management of change
• Evidence of innovative practice
• Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit/research relating to clinical practice
• Participates in regular clinical supervision
• Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner or BSc/Diploma leading to inclusion on the Health and Care Professions
• Council Register as an Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Paramedic
• Post registration qualification or University Degree
• Teaching and assessing qualification Mentorship or equivalent mentorship qualification PETALS
• Masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training
• AHP candidate

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£40,617 to £48,778 a yearincludes high cost area supplements (HCAS)