Neighbourhood Team Nurse

The team works closely with colleagues across Oxfordshire to provide support for patients in their own home environment. This can be during an acute illness, to prevent hospital admission, or to facilitate discharge from hospital. We are developing our frailty service which focuses on providing elderly frail patients with support and care planning to help them stay at home. In return for your skills and commitment we offer wide-ranging staff benefits. We believe that ongoing support and opportunities to further enhance your clinical skills and knowledge are extremely important, and we will work with you to maximise your potential. For all clinicians, the role will require you to deliver a range of assessments and interventions to patients in their own home to ensure timely treatment and facilitate early discharge and admission avoidance. Skills required for the role includes, clinical triage, and assessments, phlebotomy, ECGs urinary catheterisation, palliative care, and wound care (a training programme can be offered to establish this skill set). If you have a passion to:

• Support patients to remain within their own home environment.
• Avoid unnecessary admissions to hospital.
• Influence service development to deliver high quality holistic acute care.
  
  We are looking for flexible individuals (full time/part time) who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care. It would also suit anyone with a passion for caring for the frail, elderly, and housebound community in their own home.
Registered nurses will require a minimum of two years experience in the community or emergency/urgent care settings as a Registered Nurse with current registration with the NMC.

PML is a successful not-for-profit, GP-led organisation providing various NHS community and primary care clinical services to patients across Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. We have evolved as a NHS healthcare provider since 2004 and in the last few years have grown significantly, now employing around 300 staff with a turnover of circa £16m. PML holds GMS contracts, as well as being a GP Federation representing circa 50 GP practices covering approximately 650,000 patients.