Bank Community Staff Nurse - Intermediate Care Team

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We seek dynamic nurses with amazing interpersonal skills to support the leads in the county wide Community Rapid Response & Intermediate Care Team, working to get people out of hospital or preventing hospital admission by playing a major part in their journey, setting goals and support planning with Therapists, Doctors and support workers as an integrated approach for patients in their own home environments. We are looking to recruit new team members who can effectively deliver a range of treatments, including IV therapy and all aspects of nursing care in the patient's own home environment.

The Community Rapid Response & Intermediate Care Team operates as a Virtual Ward across the county, managing patients with sub-acute conditions to aid their recovery from illness or injury within their own homes by preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and reducing length of hospital stay.

Rewards and Benefits

Additional top up rate of 12.07% on the standard hourly rate.
Additional pay enhancements at weekends & public holidays
Bank incentives, including Wagestream (An optional service to allow staff to access a percentage of their earned wages before the monthly pay date
Flexible working across the organisation
Free parking on Trust Sites
NHS Staff Benefits including NHS Pension & Access to Blue Light card!

The initial training provided to successful candidates includes all Trust mandatory training and specific training relevant to the role.

Main duties of the job

The Team are based countywide across Northamptonshire with shifts available from the two locations of Romic House in Kettering (NN16 8TD) & Lotus House in Northampton (NN1 3NR).

In order to respond to the healthcare needs of the local population, the teams operate 7 days a week ensuring the delivery of the service can respond to patients' needs as and when required. The shifts for the service are between 07.00am to 01.00am including weekend and bank holiday working as part of the rota. The successful candidates will be expected to work within these shift patterns. We can offer long and short shifts.

Applicants must hold a valid UK driving license, have access to a vehicle for work purposes at all times on duty and be confident to drive in all driving conditions for this community post. Applicants will be flexible and adaptable, being able to respond to need at short notice.

You will:

assess the healthcare needs of patients and families
monitor the quality of care they're receiving
be professionally accountable for the delivery of care
utilise technology to enable you to update records as you go

Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, recently discharged from hospital and have complex needs.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

29 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

270-TF811-BANK

Job locations

The Intermediate Care Team

Northamptonshire

Telford Way Industrial Estate

Northamptonshire

NN16 8TD

Lotus House

Northampton

Northamptonshire

NN1 3NR

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Experience / Skills

Essential

Evidence of CPD
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work well under pressure
Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.

Desirable

Community Experience

Clinical Skills

Essential

Evidence of assessing patients
Evidence of Working autonomously

Person Specification

Experience / Skills

Essential

Evidence of CPD
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work well under pressure
Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.

Desirable

Community Experience

Clinical Skills

Essential

Evidence of assessing patients
Evidence of Working autonomously

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).