Senior Community Nurse - UCR

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southwick; Presencial; GBP 35.000 - 48.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior UCR Nurse to join our Urgent Community Response team. The post focuses on rapid assessment and intervention for patients in crisis, aiming to prevent hospital admissions and support safe, home-based care.

You will carry out holistic assessments, develop care plans, perform clinical interventions, and supervise junior staff, working with colleagues across health and social care to meet complex patient needs.

Formación

• Current NMC registration and a nursing qualification.
• Experience in urgent/community settings is preferred.
• Ability to lead, supervise and develop others within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsabilidades

• Undertake holistic assessments for patients in crisis in the community.
• Develop and implement care plans with multidisciplinary input.
• Provide clinical interventions to stabilize conditions.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff and new starters.
• Coordinate discharge planning and inter-agency liaison to meet needs.
• Promote person-centred care and maintain high standards of documentation.

Conocimientos

Holistic assessment

Clinical leadership

Autonomous practice

Patient advocacy

Educación

NMC Registered Nurse

Descripción del empleo

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Senior Nurse to join our Urgent Community Response (UCR) team. The UCR service provides rapid assessment and intervention to patients experiencing a health crisis, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting individuals to remain safely at home., As a Senior UCR Nurse, you will undertake holistic assessments, develop and implement care plans, provide clinical interventions, and work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues across health and social care services. You will manage complex patients within the community, exercise clinical decision-making, and support junior staff through supervision and leadership.

Monitor the quality of care planning, implementation and evaluation to ensure optimum quality is maintained

Ensure that medicines in your area are handled and administered according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.

Inform the Community Matron of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care

Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met

Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients' needs

Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.

Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care

Ensure that discharge and transfer planning for patients is done in a proactive and interdisciplinary manner

Practice, role model and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice

Practice, role model and promote safe and effective recording in line with trust policies and professional standards

Encourage a culture of patient wellness and coproduction

Demonstrate, care, compassion, competence, effective communication, courage and commitment with all patients and carers

Ensure patients with palliative care needs (and their families) have those needs met

The successful candidate will be a confident autonomous practitioner with excellent assessment skills, a patient-centred approach, and a commitment to delivering high-quality care in a fast-paced environment. In return, we offer a supportive team, opportunities for professional development, and the chance to make a real difference to patients across our local community.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes are essential.

In return, we offer a supportive working environment, regular supervision, professional development opportunities and the chance to make a real difference to the lives of patients within the local community.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence