Job summary
- Main area
- Medical
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Part Time and Full Time Hou
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 153-ME04323
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Hospital at Home
Band 5
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 5 Nurses to join the acute out-patient parental antimicrobial therapy service as part of UHD’s Hospital at Home/Virtual Ward Team. This team will also be providing care to general medical patients in the future with the development of new patient pathways being explored.
Patients who meet defined eligibility criteria and have a ‘Criteria to Reside’ in acute hospital care, may be able to have observations, monitoring and treatments easily delivered at home, under the right supervision of our specialist teams.
The time that each patient spends under this supervision will vary, depending upon their health and care needs. This will be discussed with patients when they are identified as being suitable and will be updated as their condition changes.
The approach provides safe, effective person-centred care, equivalent to that received in an acute hospital setting.
The post requires flexible working between the acute sites and eventually patients’ homes to administer intravenous antimicrobials and perform patient observations and assessments. Providing a high-quality service that is patient-centred is important to us; the successful candidate will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a flexible, dynamic approach to patient care.
The role required an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: Poole Hospital but cross site working will be required
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
Hospital at Home is about providing the elements of acute hospital level care, in the comfort of the patient’s usual home.
You will be work alongside a team of band 7’s. You will be responsible for the screening of patients onto the pathway and caring for a clinical caseload of patients. You will work closely with the lead Consultant Microbiologists and Antimicrobial pharmacist as well as engaging with clinical teams from a variety of specialities and community teams including patients GPs.
The Hospital at Home service is continually developing and being part of this will be part of your role.
Your role will also be vital in assisting with the development and management of the service, service improvement and governance.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Advanced Diploma/ Degree in adult health nursing studies
- Holds valid UK driving license
- NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice in the care of the patient
- Demonstrate understanding of own role and professional expectations and accountability in practice in line with NMC Code
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of role in relation to patient experience, quality and safety agenda’s that support Governance Frameworks
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable clinical experience.
- Experience of caring for patients with acute and long- term conditions within General Medicine
Desirable criteria
- a variety of experience within differing specialities including medicine
Technical skills
Essential criteria
- IT skills
- Demonstrable ability in management of vital signs monitoring and escalation of the deteriorating patient.
- Non-IV medication administration
- IV medication administration
- Venepuncture and cannulation
Desirable criteria
- ECG recording
- Male Catheterisation
- Awareness of audit in practice
- CVAD and PICC lines
- Administration of IV Blood products
Interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication in all forms. Written, oral, IT
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information to patients and carers
- Ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative.
- Able to integrate and work within the MDT
- Time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership and management experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Emma Bell
- Job title
- ECP OPAT Virtual Ward
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 8267
- Additional information
You are also able to speak to any of the OPAT nurses on this number
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