Enhanced Clinical Practitioner for OPAT

University Hospitals Dorset; Poole; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution is seeking a Band 7 Extended Clinical Practitioner to join their innovative virtual ward for a 9-month maternity cover. The role focuses on administering intravenous antimicrobials, managing clinical pathways, and ensuring high-quality patient care through collaboration with various teams. You'll play a crucial part in service management and improvement within a developing project aimed at enhancing patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with Band 7 experience.
• Strong team player with a focus on patient care.
• Ability to coordinate patient pathways.

Responsibilities

• Administer intravenous antimicrobials to patients.
• Manage own clinical caseload and collaborate with specialists.
• Develop OPAT pathway ensuring effective patient assessments.

Skills

Patient-centered care

Team collaboration

Flexible approach

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 7 ECP’s to join the the acute out-patient parental antimicrobial therapy service as part of UHD’s Virtual Ward/Hospital at Home Project. This position is for 9months to cover Maternity leave. The post requires flexible working between the acute sites and eventually patients’ homes to administer intravenous antimicrobials. Providing a high-quality service that is patient-centred is important to us; the successful candidate will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a flexible, dynamic approach to patient care.

This project is still in developmental stages and continuing the development and expansion of patient pathways will be a major part of your role.

You will be responsible for the screening of patients onto the pathway, have your own clinical caseload of patients and work closely with the lead Consultant Microbiologist as well as engaging with clinical teams from a variety of specialities and community teams including patients GPs.

Your role will also be vital for management of the service, service improvement and governance.

This team is currently based on the treatment and investigation unit (TIU) and the role will also involve working alongside the TIU team

The aim of this role is to help continue to develop the OPAT pathway. As a band 7 ECP you will help co-ordinate and organise patients suitable for the IV OPAT service, ensuring timely and effective assessment for suitability, recruitment to and oversight of the delivery of IV antibiotics to appropriate patients, including admission avoidance, and early supported discharge. There will be a degree of flexibility around how this role is delivered to support best practice for individual patients initially this service with be based on the treatment investigation unit. The delivery of high quality, effective, integrated and compassionate care is central to this role

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Annika Hazel Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0300 019 8439

This Post is to cover 9 months Maternity leave

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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