UCLH@HOME Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse

Whittington Health NHS Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Camden Town seeks a dedicated professional to lead community care for patients transitioning from hospital to home. The role involves patient care, team leadership, and utilizing remote monitoring solutions to support health post-discharge. Ideal candidates will come from backgrounds in emergency care, primary care, or acute medicine and demonstrate a passion for patient-centered care.

Benefits

Support for professional development

Friendly and diverse work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in emergency care, primary care, or acute medicine is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills for patient and team interactions.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage complex situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for patients transferred from hospital to community.
• Lead case-finding and coordinate transfers home.
• Deliver direct care using remote monitoring technologies.

Skills

Leadership in care

Patient care

Remote monitoring technologies

Job description

Overview

To provide care for patients who are transferred to the community from UCLH prior to estimated discharge date. The post holder will have a leadership role and take responsibility for case-finding, team co-ordination and organisation of transfers home. We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds including emergency nurses, primary care and acute medicine. It is an exciting time to join our team and be supported to enhance your scope of autonomous practice. If you are seeking a challenge, are passionate about patient care and interested in joining an enthusiastic, dynamic and dedicated team we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for patients transferred from hospital to the community before discharge date.
• Play a leadership role and take responsibility for case-finding, team coordination and organisation of transfers home.
• Direct care delivery within the patient’s own home and, where appropriate, the use of remote monitoring technologies.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce representative of this population and are open to differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes in recruitment, training, promotion and other employment policies that are sensitive to these differences. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

• To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All staff must safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines; participate in required training and supervision; comply with professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Safeguarding and information

• Be familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for safeguarding children and young people.
• Be familiar with the London Multi-Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan-London Procedures.
• Be familiar with local information-sharing protocols and systems.

Your application and processes

• Provide only a business email address for referees.
• Ensure you include evidence of meeting the essential requirements as listed in the job description, as this forms the basis of shortlisting.
• Closing dates are indicative; adverts may close early. If you do not hear from us within about 3 weeks after the closing date, you may not have been shortlisted. If you require feedback, contact the appointing manager in the advert.
• Check emails regularly; correspondence may be via tracing systems and may go to junk folders.
• Employment is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC registered doctors.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK will be considered alongside all other applications. Please check eligibility under the UKVI points-based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed.
• If offered a role with a NLPSS partner trust, identity and right-to-work documents may be verified remotely using a certified identity verification service provider (TrustID). You may be asked to capture images of documents and a "selfie" for facial matching. TrustID may perform a digital address check using external services; this check does not impact your credit rating.
• During recruitment, identity documentation will be scanned using devices that recognise security features of the documents provided.
• The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details; information is stored securely to set up the employee record in the ESR HR system.

UCLH@Home opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our UCLH@HOME team, a service provided by Whittington Health in partnership with UCLH. We are at the forefront of integrated care, providing innovative and transformational care that best serves local communities. UCLH@Home is an NHS service that supports patients to leave hospital once medically optimised and safe to be managed in the community. While under this service, patients remain under the care of their consultant team. As a member of our team, your role will include direct care delivery within the patient’s own home and the use of remote monitoring technologies.