Nursing Associate - Hospital and Care at Home (Virtual Ward)

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the newly formed Hospital and Care at Home (Virtual ward ) service. The service follows different pathways (Frailty, Respiratory, Heart Failure and Infection) to allow patients to be discharged from Hospital earlier to continue their treatment and recovery at home. Patients can also be admitted directly from the community to avoid a hospital admission where possible.

Patients are supported at home by the Hospital and Care at Home team. We can provide virtual monitoring and daily support through home visits or virtually.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the Hospital and Care at Home team to contribute to the ongoing assessments of patients. Providing and monitoring patient care in line with the service pathways as agreed with supervising clinician(s). Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with the wider Hospital and care at Home team.

Establish and maintain effective communication with patient/carers to enable an environment to support therapeutic relationships.

Visit patients at home to review progress against established pathway. Escalate concerns to the clinical team where required. To provide home visits to obtain blood samples when necessary and to set up patients on remote monitoring.

• Contribute to ongoing assessment and monitoring of patients.
• To teach patients how to use remote monitoring.
• Monitor the condition of patients with support of a supervising clinician.
• To provide home visits to patients who may require assistance with virtual monitoring.
• To provide home visits to obtain blood samples when clinically indicated.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk