Job summary
Band 6 Rapid Response Nurse/Paramedic
Exciting opportunity!
We are looking for Nurses or Paramedics with a passion for patient care, who want to develop their skills and push themselves outside the normal boundaries of their practice and who have a real drive to make sure their patient gets the best treatment possible. Excellent communication skills and a strong work ethic are essential and in return we offer significant development opportunities and a better work life balance than many traditional nursing and paramedic roles.
You will be part of a community team where your proven ability to make clinical decisions will aid patient recovery. This will include having a direct link to the patient's discharging medical and therapy team for liaison and support where necessary and with the patients GP or other health care professional to prevent hospital re-admission.
Our referrals mainly come from GPs and the London Ambulance Service. We provide a Rapid Response service to provide an initial holistic assessment at home within two hours, doing tests such as blood and urine sampling and developing and initialising treatment plans.
You will provide assessments and interventions and will make high impact clinical decisions. You will be expected to work autonomously whilst drawing assistance from other colleagues in primary and secondary care.
We encourage any Nurses and Paramedics with an acute background to apply as we value experience as much as academic achievement.
Main duties of the job
- To deliver nursing care to patients within their home, that is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity is enhanced.
- To undertake highly skilled and complex nursing activities directly related to the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care.
- To make skilled clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly.
- Management of complex patient care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.
- To ensure that each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and that their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.
- To provide health information and health promotion for patients and their families on the caseload including formal pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic obstructive airways disease.
- To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions.
- Attend regular MDT meetings with acute services, therapists, social services, care homes and GP Practices.
- To evaluate your practice through audit and outcome measures with support of senior colleagues when required. To participate in Quality Improvement work.
- To work with the acute hospitals to prevent admission to hospital such as in-reaching.
- To maintain and develop specific departmental duties as designated by service lead.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Band 6 Rapid Response Practitioner you will:
- Attend to patients to do a Rapid Response initial assessment and for follow up visits.
- Develop your clinical skills into a more well-rounded holistic approach to patient care.
- Develop new skills outside of your normal scope of practice including skills from Paramedicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy tasks.
- Gain experience in day to day management of the team including taking handovers and helping to make treatment plans.
- Supervise junior staff and students
- Attend in-service training and have Continued Professional Development opportunities
Enfield Rapid Access Service works 7 days a week from 8am until 10pm. You will be expected to work weekends and bank holidays although these will be distributed throughout the team. Shift patterns are made up of:
08:00 20:00
10:00 22:00
In return for your skills and dedication to the team and our patients we endeavour to provide:
- A supportive environment to learn and develop your new skills.
- Working with a MDT to push your knowledge beyond normal clinical practice.
- Regular training above and beyond statutory and mandatory training.
- An emphasis on a good work life balance including meal breaks to enable staff to perform at their best.
- An experienced and supportive management team who listen and act on your feedback, and who all have a clinical background with community experience
- The opportunity to deliver training sessions.
- A full NHS benefits package plus a lease car option.
- Agenda for change pay scale band 6 + outer London weighting and unsocial hours enhancements where appropriate.
For this post, the following are essential:
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills
- Current NMC or HCPC registration
- Strong work ethic
- Ability to drive, a current UK driving license and access to a car for work
This post is a specialist community role and may not be suitable for everyone. We would strongly encourage potential applicants to call for an informal discussion about the role and to consider arranging to visit the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Band 6 Rapid Response Practitioner you will:
- Attend to patients to do a Rapid Response initial assessment and for follow up visits.
- Develop your clinical skills into a more well-rounded holistic approach to patient care.
- Develop new skills outside of your normal scope of practice including skills from Paramedicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy tasks.
- Gain experience in day to day management of the team including taking handovers and helping to make treatment plans.
- Supervise junior staff and students
- Attend in-service training and have Continued Professional Development opportunities
Enfield Rapid Access Service works 7 days a week from 8am until 10pm. You will be expected to work weekends and bank holidays although these will be distributed throughout the team. Shift patterns are made up of:
08:00 20:00
10:00 22:00
In return for your skills and dedication to the team and our patients we endeavour to provide:
- A supportive environment to learn and develop your new skills.
- Working with a MDT to push your knowledge beyond normal clinical practice.
- Regular training above and beyond statutory and mandatory training.
- An emphasis on a good work life balance including meal breaks to enable staff to perform at their best.
- An experienced and supportive management team who listen and act on your feedback, and who all have a clinical background with community experience
- The opportunity to deliver training sessions.
- A full NHS benefits package plus a lease car option.
- Agenda for change pay scale band 6 + outer London weighting and unsocial hours enhancements where appropriate.
For this post, the following are essential:
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills
- Current NMC or HCPC registration
- Strong work ethic
- Ability to drive, a current UK driving license and access to a car for work
This post is a specialist community role and may not be suitable for everyone. We would strongly encourage potential applicants to call for an informal discussion about the role and to consider arranging to visit the service.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration/ or Paramedic Registered
- Bachelor's Degree - or working towards
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Assessment Course
- Independent Prescribing (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within Community Nursing/Paramedic environment
- Extensive post registration in acute care, ITU, A&E, AMU, acute assessment unit
Skills
Essential
- Physical assessment skills and ability to take and interpret observations, and make a sound professional judgement
- Competent with medication administration, including intravenous antibiotics, venepuncture, cannulation, insertion of urinary catheters.
- Able to maintain electronic patient records. Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing.
Leadership
Essential
- Understanding of the role of Primary Care in admission prevention and supporting a timely discharge
- Demonstrates Trust values, good communication and being a good team player
- Demonstrates knowledge of the role applied for. Willing to learn in a new or change of environment
Other
Essential
- Full Driving Licence and Access of car for work
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration/ or Paramedic Registered
- Bachelor's Degree - or working towards
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Assessment Course
- Independent Prescribing (or working towards)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within Community Nursing/Paramedic environment
- Extensive post registration in acute care, ITU, A&E, AMU, acute assessment unit
Skills
Essential
- Physical assessment skills and ability to take and interpret observations, and make a sound professional judgement
- Competent with medication administration, including intravenous antibiotics, venepuncture, cannulation, insertion of urinary catheters.
- Able to maintain electronic patient records. Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing.
Leadership
Essential
- Understanding of the role of Primary Care in admission prevention and supporting a timely discharge
- Demonstrates Trust values, good communication and being a good team player
- Demonstrates knowledge of the role applied for. Willing to learn in a new or change of environment
Other
Essential
- Full Driving Licence and Access of car for work
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
