Staff Nurse Home First

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Lewes; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Nurse to join their Home First service. The role involves assessing and supporting patients post-discharge, promoting independence and self-care. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, experience in community care, and a commitment to professional development. The position offers flexible working options and the chance to make a positive impact on patient recovery and well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Compassionate leadership environment

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in community and end-of-life care.
• Proven ability to assess and manage patient needs holistically.
• Excellent communication skills with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess and discharge patients in collaboration with the team.
• Empower patients in their care and promote self-care.
• Identify patient status changes and act accordingly.
• Maintain high standard of clinical documentation.
• Attend mandatory training and professional development.

Skills

Holistic assessment

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Patient self-care promotion

Knowledge of clinical governance

Education

Nursing Registration

Mentorship Qualification

Tools

Clinical audit tools

Job description

The Home First service brings together nurses,paramedics,therapists,healthand therapy assistants, to work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patient's own home.

Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. Patients who are discharged from hospital into Home First will be receiving step-down intermediate care, involving community-based assessments and interventions provided in their own home to support recovery and monitoring of their health in the early days post discharge to prevent re-admission. Home First will, whererequired, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.

You could become part of our exciting service, bringing the unique benefits of a wraparound recovery service from hospital discharge. The principle of the service ensuring that recovery involves working towards the person being as independent as possible through enablement.

We are looking for a Nurse to join us, so if you're an ambitious, proactive, and looking for a dynamic role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent community care, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Holistically assess, plan, monitor, evaluate and discharge patients whilst working in an integrated manner with the multi-disciplinary team.

Empower patients to work as partners in their care, respecting individual choice and difference and encouraging self-care where able. Support patients in a programme of self-care/enablement.

Facilitate patients and their families to plan for the future and improve end of life care ensuring that choices are reflected in personalised care plans.

Identify significant change in patient's physical, psychological and social status, acting on findings, seeking guidance and/or reporting to the appropriate member of the multi-disciplinary team.

Demonstrate effective time management by prioritisation and delegation of patient care, promoting continuity whenever possible and working in collaboration within the team.

Demonstrate commitment to continual professional development, participating in clinical supervision and working within the NMC code and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust policies demonstrating awareness of personal accountability for own actions.

Demonstrate a high standard of clinical information collation and documentation, adhering to Trust and national guidelines pertaining to the collection and storage of clinical data.

To attend all mandatory and statutory training as appropriate to role.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Communication and working relationships

Working in partnership, the post-holder communicates effectively with patients and their carers, the multi-disciplinary team and other key stakeholders on a range of complex health care matters, issues, ideas and situations.

Assist in maintaining a safe working environment for self, colleagues, patients and others, report any accidents or untoward occurrences as per policy and undertake any investigations as required for untoward incidence, complaints, risk management and health and safety issues.

They act as an information resource for patients, multi-disciplinary colleagues and other stakeholders. Responsible for signposting and referring individuals, families, carers and communities to the most appropriate agencies/services to support their needs.

Contribute to ensuring effective liaison and communication with other professional groups and outside agencies, acting as an information source, and work in partnership in the interests of patients.

Create opportunities for people to communicate effectively and in a manner that recognises barriers to this by modifying/changing existing communication method.

Holistic assessment and care planning.

Individualised care and the promotion of self-care.

Safe and effective review and referral to the appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team.

Effective delegation and prioritisation of workload.

Professional development as required to maintain area of practice, and as negotiated in supervision.

An awareness of health, safety and security risks.

Engagement in service provision and change.

Person Specification

Qualifications/professional registration

• Experience of dealing with a wide range of people at all levels, including clients, carers, therapists, health and social care colleagues and other professionals
• Mentorship Qualification or work towards
• Demonstrates commitment to and recent evidence of further education and professional development
• Experienced in a variety of clinical settings
• Experience of working within the Community
• Experience of EOL patients and EOL care

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
• Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management, catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers
• Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
• Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
• Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
• Ability to work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team
• Good communication and negotiation skills

Other Requirements

• Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
• Access to a vehicle for work purposes
• Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
• Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
• Demonstrate a high level of understanding of self, able to identify personal limitations and shows openness to address them

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum pro rata