London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustThe Short Term Assessment, Rehabilitation and Reablement Service (STARRS) are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic Senior Nurse who will bring new ideas and share their excellent working practice within this busy, friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team.
Are you a quick thinking, problem-solving dynamic Nurse? Are you looking to enhance your assessment and treatment skills for patients in crisis? Do you enjoy working alongside other professionals and services to achieve the best outcome for your patients? This post could be what you are looking for! STARRS provides Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services which can include specialist assessment, equipment and short-term packages of care.
We are an energetic service, which provides a comprehensive service to enable safe, timely Early Supported Discharge from the acute hospital, thereby, reducing the length of hospital stay by continuing patient care at home. The team is operational 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 20:30.
Main duties of the jobProvide the highest standard of evidence-based nursing care to patients within their own home, working with agreed management care plans and protocols.Using Healthcare digital technology to monitor patients with different Specialities. Modern technology used to monitor patients remotely with approved health applications.Monitoring patients through digital dashboard for clinical parameters and follow up the appropriate clinical action as required.Working closely with other Virtual ward Specialities service and making sure that all clinical data are captured, and patients are monitored accordingly.Undertake and manage the comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and auditing of clinical care provision both in primary, secondary and tertiary care when appropriate.Optimise hospital bed utilisation and reduce the length of stay by ensuring the timely, safe transfer/discharges of patients to the most appropriate and agreed environment as well as preventing inappropriate hospital admission in line with the philosophy of the acute Trust and Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).For this post, the following are essential:
NMC RegistrationBroad range of experience and excellent communication skillsCar driver (the Trust has a lease car facility available)Registered car driver with clean UK licence.About usLondon North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UKSt Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel diseaseEaling Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House HospiceCentral Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job responsibilitiesTo view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person SpecificationExperienceExperience working in Acute/Community SettingQualificationsEvidence of Leadership Courses /TrainingDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
Salary: £42,939 to £50,697 a year inclusive of HCAS.
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