Community Staff Nurse -Triage Nurse / Virtual Assessment

The post holder will work within the District Nursing triage team and wider a Multi-Disciplinary Team in the Community. The post holder will support the discharge plans for patients ensuring seamless transition to the District Nursing Service. They will be responsible to ensure good clinical practices and high standards of care are maintained in order to meet patient needs
supported by Community Specialist Practitioner in District Nursing (CSP). They will support the workforce to deliver evidenced based wound care, excellent End of Life care provision and evaluation of programmes of care for a specific group of Patient groups within the community., CLINICAL AND OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITES
1. To effectively prioritise and triage patient referrals into the service with the support of a Community Specialist Practitioner (CSP) in District Nursing.
2. Undertake responsibility for the triage of patients referred into the service under the supervision of a Community Specialist Practitioner (CSP) in District Nursing. To ensure initial assessment of care needs and the provision and evaluation of individual patient programmes of care including prescribing equipment and the discharge of patients from the caseload has occurred in a timely manner.
3. Assume delegated responsibility for holistic assessment and the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation through the triage process.
4. As required to provide high quality palliative care to patients and their families, as required.
5. Maintain clinical competency in a range of extended skills as required to meet the needs of patients within the service.
6. Work with other health care colleagues, voluntary and statutory organisations to ensure that the holistic needs of patients are met wherever possible.
7. Where the post holder is a non-medical prescriber, practice responsibly and maintains competence to effectively prescribe from the relevant Prescribing Formulary such as The Great Manchester wound care formulary and BNF.
8. To carry out clinical risk assessments within sphere of competence as required.
9. Work as an effective team member to actively contribute to public health initiatives including health needs assessment and projects to meet needs identified.
10. To promote health education and healthy lifestyles within the community, including use of motivational interviewing and negotiation skills where appropriate.
11. As required to demonstrate to patients and unpaid carers in their homes the safe use of equipment prescribed by the District Nursing team.
12. To act as an advocate to facilitate the views and choices expressed by patients and their carers.
13. To refer people to other practitioners when needs and risks are beyond one's own scope of practice or require longer term support
SECTION 2- KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
COMMUNICATION
1. Maintain effective communication both within and outside of the clinical team to ensure that patient needs are met by the most appropriate agency.
2. To communicate with patients and carers to maximise their involvement and understanding of their condition, care and treatment.
3. Provide effective skilled communication of sensitive issues, counselling and reassurance to maximise patient and carer well-being.
4. Maintain competence in IT skills and make best use of IT systems to enhance patient care.
5. Maintain contemporaneous clinical records in line with NMC Standards.
6. Identifying potential opportunities to influence the development of knowledge, ideas and practice and prioritising those that have the most potential for success
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached and can be downloaded.
New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a developing integrated organisation. If you are a self-motivated, dynamic individual with a passion for community care, this could be the position for you.

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Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
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We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more., For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute. These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.