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Senior Staff Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

London

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GBP 34,000 - 45,000

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Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Senior Staff Nurse within the Rapid Response Team. You will be crucial in assessing and managing urgent care needs, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high standards of care. This role offers an opportunity to develop new patient pathways in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

Registered Nurse with relevant experience.
Demonstrated skills in managing complex patient needs.
Experience in acute and community settings is essential.

Responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive nursing assessments for patients.
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Manage patient care in community settings.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Risk assessment

Communication

Education

Nursing degree

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We are seeking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled Band 6 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) typically lasting up to 5 days.

Candidates are welcome to visit the Service.

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.

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. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ibinabo Orubo Job title: Advanced Primary Care Nurse Email address: ibinabo.orubo@nhs.net Telephone number: 0203 889 0980

Berth Ware/ibinabo Orubo

0203 889 0980

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care

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