Senior Registered Nurse

We are recruiting for a skilled Senior Nurse to join our Urgent Care Service in East Kent.Urgent Care Services provides short term health, therapy and care support to enable service users to remain in the community / home environment. This may include treatingacutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.We are looking to recruit an experienced band 6 practitioner to the service primarily based in Herne Bay. You will need to be comfortable with lone working and driving long distances across the geographical area.It is essential that you are comfortable with lone working and possess the relevant skills and knowledge to work independently with minimal supervision.A full valid driving license and access to a car is essential.,

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care
• The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient
• To order equipment and send onward referrals as necessary
• To act as a lead and senior practitioner to support junior staff to carry out assessments/reassessments of service users and/or pathways with complex needs across the relevant field.
• To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
• To undertake a range of competent clinical interventions and identify any deterioration in patients' condition, taking appropriate action.
• Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs.
• To support in duty role and complete triages
• To support the Clinical Lead in the management of the team
• To support and make recommendations to senior managers in order to prioritise and focus efforts to drive forward and achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and statutory requirements.
About us Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both