Community Nurse (CRT)

The Community React Team (CRT) are searching for a Band 6 Nurse to provide person focused care to our patients living in the Wigan borough. This opportunity is for a permanent, full time post (37.5 hours) with shifts across Monday to Sunday.

WWL's Community React Team (CRT) is a collaborative, responsive service for adults (over 18) within the Wigan Borough. CRT provides an urgent care response with the aim of reducing hospital admissions and, facilitating early discharge from hospital.

CRT consists of GP's, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Clinical Triage Nurses, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners, Support Workers and Administrative staff and is led by an operational and clinical lead.

The service ensures patients are cared for in their usual residence within the community setting by offering a medical review, clinical procedures, assessments, investigations, therapy assessments and short-term care. The focus is to ensure the patient is safe to be left at home by offering co-ordinated care urgently in the right place, at the right time, by the most suitable health care professionals.

Our dedicated team is here to help our patients to live life as they choose, in their own homes and care homes. We are passionate about delivering person centred care that make a different in our patients lives.

NMC registration & NHS experience is essential.

Main duties of the job

Be responsible for providing high quality intensive packages of care to meet the needs of patients in their own home. Acting as a clinical role model ensure high standards are embedded with clinical practice delegating nursing care and interventions to other members of the team according to their level of knowledge.

In collaboration with the Community React Team leads and Nursing Team leader, be proactive in supporting the clinical nursing developments within the service i.e., IV therapies, new care pathways to avoid hospital admissions, single point of access and single assessment process.

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values 'the WWL Way'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.