Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 225-Div3-6160903
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Science Park
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Staff Nurse - Virtual Ward and Hospital at Home Team
Band 5
Job overview
VIRTAUL WARD AND HOSPITAL AT HOME TEAM - COMMUNITY NURSE
If you are creative, a dynamic thinker and want to influence people to develop similar proactive ideals, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is the place for you. As a Community Nurse at the Virtual Ward you will be expected to manage daily operations of caseload, triage referrals for admission, support staff with patient escalation. Troubleshoot, safety net and make clinical decisions to keep patients safe at home. In addition, you will further develop junior staff.
Please note this vacancy role requires face to face patient management as well as virtual management and therefore the team members will be expected to conduct face to face assessments in line with patient/ caseload needs.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.
To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.
To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students.
To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors.
Providing IV medications in patients home to avoid hospital admission.
Please refer to the vacancy job description and person specification and contact the senior sister of the team.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the vacancy job description and person specification and contact the senior sister of the team.
Person specification
Registered Nursing experience of at least 6-12 months
Essential criteria
- NMC Qualification
- UK Driving Licence
Desirable criteria
- Previous nursing experience
Experience of long term condition management
Essential criteria
- Experience in long term conditions
Desirable criteria
- Degree module for long term conditions ie respiratory, asthma, diabetes
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Jarvis
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775114818
- Additional information
If you are interested in working with us and would like further information please contact our Senior Sister: Emily Jarvis on 07775114818 - available between 8 and 6.
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