Community / IC Nurse Team Practitioner

This post will involve working across both the Intermediate care Team and Community nursing team. It is a newly developing post to increase integration across the services.
You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes.
Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and the local voluntary sector services. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and 'can do' attitude., + To provide initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs of patients and carers in the community. When planning a programme of care, physical, social and emotional and cultural factors are taken into consideration and suitably qualified staff used to facilitate the level of care agreed.
+ To work as an autonomous practitioner in the planning and implementation of nursing treatment programmes.
+ To advise and instruct carers and patients on health and wellbeing issues, and self-care strategies
+ To carry out specialist and shared complex nursing assessments, to include continuing health care, medication review , prescribing and palliative care.
+ To utilise a broad range of specialised nursing skills and knowledge aligning practice to the organisations Medicines Policy for Registered professionals and the NMC Standards for Medicines management (2007) ensuring assessment and competence is maintained and recorded as a nurse prescriber.
+ To monitor and evaluate care programmes for patients and carers, promoting effective co-ordination and continuity of patient care.
+ To formulate and undertake the nursing care of patients as agreed with the patients themselves and their carers, following a patient contract, within the home environment.
+ The care to be carried out is evidence based. Judgement and analysis is used to compare treatment options.

Working for our organisation
The Newton Abbot Intermediate Care Team and Community nursing team are based at Sherborne house. The Community Nurse team is also based at Tower House Surgery in Chudleigh. We cover a large geographical patch covering the practice population of nine GP surgeries.
A busy but friendly and supportive team we are committed to staff development through education and training helping staff realise their potential in topics of interest to them and encouraging career pathways in Community Nursing.
We pride ourselves on delivering high standards of care and building relationships within the communities we are part of.
Why work with us - 1 (pagetiger.com), Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
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You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.
If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a 'Staff Carers' policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer's Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
+ We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Please apply promptly
+ Please read the job description and tailor your application to reflect the role
+ Correspondence will be via Trac, text and email. Please check your email and Trac account regularly.
+ Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band
+ If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion
+ It is your responsibility to assist us in the timely receipt of appropriate references
The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.