Bank Nurse Practitioner

Central London Community Health Trust, City of Westminster

Bank Nurse Practitioner

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Central London Community Health Trust, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 day ago, 19 Oct | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: ffc14aefe0634e0aa65be76ae45bccf1

Full Job Description

  • To provide highly skilled and autonomous care to a designated caseload including taking responsibility for the assessment, management, and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings.
  • Act as the Team Leader for the Rapid Response Nursing Team on a rotational basis responsible for day-to-day management of the service; acting as a key point of contact for GPs and other general practice staff. To work within and across professional and organisational boundaries, liaising with GP's other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver individualised and expert nursing care to a high standard to client, and leading communication with all stakeholders. Take designated responsibility for discrete areas of operational management/ clinical practice. Work on a rotational shift basis - 8am - 4pm and 2pm - 10pm, when working on the LAS/UCR car shift is 8am - 6pm all services are 7 day a week including bank holidays.
  • To support the Service Manager/Clinical Lead and colleagues in delivering high quality care that delivers best value and meets the requirements of commissioners.
  • Main duties of the job To provide skilled, effective, and evidence-based nursing care to patients with complex care needs, in a variety of community settings. Utilise advanced clinical and diagnostic skills and expert knowledge to carry out thorough assessments of physical and psycho-social needs to develop a comprehensive short term care plan aiming to optimise health and wellbeing that will prevent a hospital attendance/ admission or allow early discharge home. To include the needs of carers. Provide direct advanced, autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/ or complex health needs and long-term conditions. Work within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures and Patient Group Directions (PGD's) utilising expert judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary. Prescribe as an Independent Nurse Prescriber as required, within professional competence, ensuring that all duties in relation to medicines management meet required professional and CLCH standards.

    We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire. Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to: stay well manage their own health with the right support avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital. We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives. Our vision: deliver great care closer to home. Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence

    £27.48 an hour Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay + Unsocial hours