Hospital at Home - Senior Nurse
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Positions available in Worthing.
It's an exciting time for our Hospital@Home Service. We are expanding and recruiting to our new teams who will work with patients in their homes to provide a virtual ward service for early supported discharge and admission avoidance.
Hospital @ Home teams will provide specialty virtual ward beds. They will be multi-speciality supporting patients across respiratory, heart failure and frailty in partnership with acute care, consultants and specialist nurses.
We are looking for Senior Staff Nurses to join us, so if you're an ambitious, proactive, and experienced nurse looking to be part of a supportive team and use your skills to provide excellent community care, we'd love to hear from you.
This is an amazing opportunity to become a member of the team as a senior staffnurse working together to support patients through the critical first few days after they leave hospital and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. The focus of this role is delivering holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment care plans, alongside reviewing care provision.
We are a multidisciplinary team working flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.
The team works closely with other services within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, as well as our acute and community partners, GPs, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), adult social care and voluntary and third sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will use your clinical expertise and problem-solving skills to support patients and the team. This involves completing clinical assessment, planning and the implementing care and identifying deteriorating patients.
As a member of the team, you will receive support from members of the multidisciplinary team and participate in the in-service learning programme. While developing your own specialist areas of practice, relevant to the team, you will supervise and support the development of colleagues, including those outside of your professional group and pre-registration students.
You will play an active role in the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. This is a fantastic environment in which to develop your leadership skills through formal and supported training, using these to assist in shaping future clinical practice of the team.
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a car due to the geographic area covered by the team.
About us
Why work for us?
- Positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
- Rated 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients' homes and in our community hospitals
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
- Supportive team environments
- Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Date posted
04 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year Per Annum/Pro Rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share
Reference number
150-TS8334-VWW-G
Job locations
Southfield House
Worthing
BN11 1RY
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Southfield House
Worthing
BN11 1RY
Employer's website
https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
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