Nurse - Urgent Response Service

Job summary

Calling Nurses! We have an amazing opportunity for you...

Urgent Response is a fast paced, interdisciplinary community team aimed at preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and facilitating timely discharges from hospital. This is an integrated health and social care team that visits patients in their own home and completes assessments in ED creating a bridge between the hospital and community. Patients are over 18 with a range of health and social care needs.

The post holder will have day-to-day responsibility for a designated caseload of clients, organising and prioritising their required programmes of treatment, who require nursing, rehabilitation and care management intervention. The role entails working as a lone practitioner in the community, and possibly within ED, managing situations of risk with telephone support, and seeking support and advice with cases from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge, or skills. Generic health and social care assessments, and comprehensive nursing assessments for those with acute, complex, chronic or palliative care needs, are undertaken using the Single Assessment Process, SAP.

We are looking for candidates who hold a professional registration with NMC.

For this post, you will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have access to the use of a car.

Main duties of the job

• Daily responsibility for a designated caseload of clients, undertaking comprehensive health, social care and risk assessments, planning own workload, and formulating individualized management and treatment plans using evidence-based practice. Reviews of care plans, discharge planning and making onward referrals. Obtain informed consent from client, and work within agreed guidelines for clients unable to give informed consent.
• Work as a lone practitioner managing situations of risk.
• Use assessment tools to assist with accurate assessment and decision making.
• Comply with the Safeguarding Adults Policy of the Trust, ensuring all concerns, incidents and allegations are reported in line with this.
• Empower client and carer involvement in care planning. Demonstrate ability to communicate and discuss information with clients and relatives. Utilise expert skills to motivate clients and carers to maximize treatment outcomes.
• Carry out safe moving and handling practice for clients with a range of dependency needs within the community.
• Ensure self and others comply with Trust Clinical Governance requirements.
• Work within Code of Conduct, NMC, be accountable for own professional actions at all times, seek support from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge or skills, and demonstrate ongoing CPD.
• Accurately record and maintain client records using electronic and paper systems.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.