Senior Staff Nurse

Oxleas Nhs Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust seeks an Adult Physical Health, Senior Staff Nurse to join the Rapid Response Team based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. The post focuses on rapid 2-hour assessments for adults 18+, delivering Same Day Emergency Care pathways in the community and coordinating with social care and primary care colleagues.

You will conduct comprehensive nursing assessments, exercise sound clinical reasoning, and manage breast drains, wound care, and IV antibiotics.

Qualifications

• Conduct comprehensive nursing assessments.
• Demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and risk assessment.
• Manage breast drains, wound care and IV antibiotic therapy.
• Lead and line-manage junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team to meet patient needs.
• Provide high standards of practice with emphasis on falls and frailty.
• Coordinate care and identify appropriate onward referrals and integrated pathways.
• Respond to urgent community referrals across hospital and community settings.

Skills

Nursing

Clinical assessment

Falls risk assessment

Wound care

Job description

Job summary
***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***
We are seeking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled Adult Physical Health, Senior Staff Nurse to join our dynamic, integrated multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team.
In this exciting role you will be an integral part of the team developing new pathways to provide Same Day Emergency Care in the community alongside other Adult Community Services, Social Care, Acute Trusts and Primary Care colleagues.
The Rapid Response Team are part of the SE London Accelerator Programme. The Rapid Response Team are delivering the essential elements of the Urgent Community Response pathways. The Rapid Response Team has been operational since 2013 and is a multi-professional team consisting of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers and support staff. The team provide holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age of 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley GP and live in the Borough of Bexley. The Team treats/manages/cares for patients in their usual place of residence with an urgent health or social care need.
The team are based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich and operates 7 days a week, on an 8am-8pm basis, focusing on rapid 2-hour assessments to patients with potential short-term intervention(s).
Candidates are encouraged to visit the Service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team including Consultant Geriatrician, Senior Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Services colleagues to meet the needs of patients referred to the team, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice with a strong emphasis on falls, frailty.
The post holder will conduct comprehensive nursing assessments for patients within acute and community settings. They will need to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills to guide appropriate nursing intervention and when appropriate avoid unnecessary ED presentation. The post holder will also be skilled in the management of breast drains, wound care and intravenous antibiotic therapy.
The post holder will be required to work across hospitals sites on a planned basis and in community when responding to urgent community referrals. Post holder will undertake delegated line management of junior staff, both informal and formal basis.
The team act as a liaison between acute and community settings, by identifying the most appropriate onward referrals and initiating integrated care pathways, ensuring seamless provision of care and on-going case management. Referrals are received from Health and Social Care professionals, Medical Teams, General Practitioners and Ambulance Services.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent