Community Staff Nurse - Unplanned Care

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bradford is seeking a passionate nurse to join their Unplanned Care Team. The role involves providing timely, high-quality care to patients in their homes while collaborating with various disciplines. This position offers flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits to support staff well-being. Interested candidates should be motivated to work in proactive community care settings.

Benefits

Increased mileage rates

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Passionate and caring nature, qualified or in training nurse.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the assessment of health needs and deliver care in patients' homes.
• Prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharges from hospital.

Job description

Overview

Are you a passionate and caring nurse, either qualified or in training, looking to work in a dynamic community nursing team? If so, we would like to meet you. A vacancy has arisen within the Unplanned Care Team, which has an innovative approach to nursing care. It involves quick responses to patients in their home to assess and manage the presenting issue, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and help to facilitate early hospital discharges. We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working in the community with patients in their home setting.

Responsibilities

As part of the Unplanned Care Team, you will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients. You will be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service covering 24-hours-a-day with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high-quality care. To work as part of the community nursing team in unplanned care ensuring high quality health care is delivered to patients in their own home. The post holder will be responsible for their own workload and work in collaboration with the wider Community Partnerships and Primary Care Networks. The post holder will be responsible for participating in the assessment of health needs, delivery of care to the practice population, preventing hospital admissions and facilitating early discharges from hospital. The unplanned service is delivered over a seven-day rota, covering 24-hour shift pattern. Working agilely across the service.

Values

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Working arrangements & Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.