Community Response Nurse

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; Aylsham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization is seeking a registered nurse to join the North Urgent Community Response Team on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role involves supporting urgent care for patients in their homes, with a focus on palliative care and rehabilitation. Candidates must have excellent communication skills, a full driving license, and a strong desire to enhance their nursing skills. The position requires weekend work and offers an opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full and valid driving license and have access to a vehicle.
• Ability to demonstrate holistic assessment in practice.
• Motivated individual who is keen to work with patients.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary admissions.
• Assess and prescribe care pathways in crisis situations.
• Act as the patient’s advocate.
• Provide evidence-based clinical interventions.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Holistic assessment

Initiative

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse to join the North Urgent Community Response Team on a 12 month secondment / fixed term contract, to support urgent community 2 hour response for patients in their own home, with skills in palliative / end of life care, wound care and catheter care and a strong desire to further develop your community nursing skills and experience.

Responsibilities

• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• To assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative and end of life care and/or rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible, with support from Senior colleagues within the wider Urgent Community Response Team.
• To act as the patient’s advocate, facilitating choice and patient empowerment.
• To provide evidence based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on "best practice".
• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support early discharge from hospital.
• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
• To triage referrals on a rotational basis for the Urgent Community Response Team.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to demonstrate holistic assessment.
• The ability to demonstrate initiative and a keen interest in working with this patient group.
• You must hold a full and valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Additional Information

You will be required to work over a 7 day working week including weekends and will be hard working, motivated.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

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Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills.