Rapid Response Nurse

Job summary Band 6 Rapid Response Overnight NurseHours: 23 hour post (x2 hours shifts South Warwickshire Foundation Trust, Out of Hospital Community Services in collaboration with Myton Hospice, Shakespeare Hospice and Shipston Home Nursing are working together to provide a Rapid Response overnight service within the South Warwickshire area.The aim of the service is to provide care for patients and their families, helping them to achieve their preference to be cared for at home at the end of life.
The service also offers urgent support to catheter patient in order to prevent hospital attendance.
The service will operate between the hours of and staffed by Band 6 Registered Nurses and Senior health care assistants.
The team will work closely with the existing community teams to ensure patients receive a seamless and wrap around service and excellent care.We are looking for an experienced, skilled and knowledgeable Registered Nurse who is able to work flexibly as part of the team.
If you feel you have the necessary qualifications, qualities and a passion to provide excellent end of life care we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job To provide an efficient Rapid Response End of Life Nursing service across South Warwickshire.
To provide strong clinical leadership and empower team members to ensure all aspects of patient care are delivered, demonstrate clinical excellence and maintain consistently high standards of nursing practice in palliative care and catheter care.The post holder will be responsible for actively managing a clinical caseload of patients requiring specialist core palliative care needs.Manage support and develop Healthcare Assistants.
Act as a resource for professionals and non professionals involved in palliative care within the community.
Establish effective working relationships with Primary Care Health Teams to provide palliative care nursing to patients and families within their own home.
About us Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC.
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from hospital to Community and covering areas such as Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence.
We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'.
Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work.
It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job description Job responsibilities Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management and proactive planning towards the end of life.Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of person-centred care and using the underpinning philosophy of co-creating care with people with palliative care needs.Supports and contributes to the development and promotion of the nursing service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.Supports patient and public involvement within the sphere of practice.Supports and contributes to quantitative and qualitative data collection of the nursing service in order to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality and contributes to providing reports demonstrating the evidence.Participates in service reviews and initiatives to drive service improvement Supports and contributes to the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines.Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway.Makes sure that people with palliative care needs are aware that they are interacting with a SWFT Palliative Care Professional.Acts as a role model for excellent communication skills and expertise.Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation skills when dealing with difficult or challenging situations.Assist in maintaining patient statistics by keeping up to date patient notes and clinical database.Participate in agreed methods of off - duty planning to provide a service to patients and families between the hours of 2200 and 0800 seven days a week.Positively support the project lead in managerial decisions and change management issues.Participate in regular reflective practice and clinical supervision.Ensure compliance with all SWFT policies and procedures.
Line Management ResponsibilitiesParticipates in specified meetings in order to contribute to strategic service planning and implement continuous improvements to palliative care practice.Manage performance and professional development of Health Care assistants.
Provision of Professional AdviceWorks across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem solving.Supports and manages change within a complex environment including across organisational boundaries in the pursuit of excellent palliative and end of life care.Influences the development of others through education and training.Utilises patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change.Provides palliative care advice to patients, carers, and all members of the multidisciplinary health care team concerning clinical investigations, disease and symptom management, and other issues within sphere of competence.Uses knowledge to refer patients and carers to other specialist/multidisciplinary services.Advises patients, carers and health care professionals on services impacting on palliative care in both acute and primary care settings in addition to social services and voluntary sector organisations across North Warwickshire.
Communications and Working RelationshipsUses high level of interpersonal and communication skills for the purposes of facilitating ethical clinical decision making.Negotiates with health and social care professionals involving contact with acute and primary care sector together with statutory and voluntary services to facilitate seamless access to and transition between palliative care services for patients and carers.Uses alternative methods to communicate with patients where there are barriers present hearing disabilities, mental health, language and sensory impairment.
Control of ResourcesAccurately records and manages personally generated patient information in compliance with data protection regulations.Maintains data base of service information for the purposes of audit and service development.Manages office resources in order to fulfil job responsibilities.Uses Microsoft Office to create documents, reports and educational materials.
Judgement and Decision Making /Freedom to ActActively integrates theory and practice within the field of palliative care.Assesses peoples information needs and provides relevant information to meet those needs through the use of information prescriptions.Provides clinical expertise, advice and support across service boundaries.Supports the nursing contribution to service development, ensuring the pursuit of excellence in care.Follows an agreed care pathway, refers to other professionals and sign-posts to other agencies as appropriate.Supports and contributes to the development of policy and clinical guidelines.Participates in policy formation and implementation related to palliative care.
Working Conditions ie Shift Work or Requirement to TravelWorks flexibly regarding time in order to meet service needs.Accesses independent means of transport for domiciliary visits and meetings.Manages risks of lone working in community setting.
Responsibility for Research and DevelopmentUndertakes audit at request of Project Lead.Identifies mechanisms to obtain and use feedback in order to develop patient focussed service.Takes personal responsibility for life -long learning and continuous personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework and actively engages with learning and development opportunities offered by SWFT.Demonstrates continuous evaluation of practice and make changes where appropriate.Other DutiesResponsible for the safe use of training, therapeutic and communication equipment projectors, nebulisers, TENS machines, mobile phones.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered General Nurse First level degree in related subject or undertaking a degree pathway Post-basic qualification in cancer/palliative care or relevant subject or workings towards Evidence of continued professional development Desirable Evidence of training in audit/ quality improvement methodology Advanced communications skills training or prepared to work towards Evidence of training in teaching / education or prepared to work towards Evidence of masters level learning or prepared to work towards Nurse prescribing Experience Essential Relevant post registration experience, at Band 5 or above, in cancer, palliative &/ or end of life care within current role Experience of multi-professional working Experience of teaching Evidence of good communications skills Ability to support and influence change Desirable Experience of audit and research Skills Essential IT literate Teaching/assessment and presentations skills Organisation and negotiation skills Effective communication Ability to motivate self and others Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team Flexible attitude to working Desirable Exemplar written communication skills European Computer Driving Licence or equivalent Leadership and motivational skills Personal Essential Diplomatic Calm and objective Assertive, confident, yet approachable Personally and professionally mature Recognition of own limitations Demonstrates enthusiasm Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations Other Essential Able to travel between sites