Sister / Charge Nurse IV Therapy

You will be accountable for the delivery of high quality care to patients within their own home and other community settings. Nursing interventions include Home blood transfusions, Administration of intravenous antibiotics and chemotherapy in a domiciliary setting as well as the delivery of IV medication in a clinic setting. The team work closely with Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and haematology specialist in treating a wide range of conditions.
You will support with the monitoring of short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions. The post holder will promote health/wellbeing and independence for patients on the team caseload to ensure a safe and effective IV service is delivered. Assessing patients suitability for OPAT.
The postholder will co-ordinate the shift, managing workload, capacity and demand.

Working for our organisation
You will work in partnership with patients, carers and other health and social care agencies to promote independence and develop individual plans of care relevant to patient need within their limitations to practice
We value regular appraisal and supervision and ensure personal and professional development opportunities are available. Candidates will need to be able to travel to meet the needs of this post and will therefore need access to a vehicle for work.

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Bolton Community IV therapy team within the Integrated Community Division. The role is that of a band 6 staff nurse.
This is a full time post and will be required to work between the hours of 8.30am and 10 pm, across 7 days a week.
The post holder will work as part of the IV Therapy team with the supervision of the IV Team Leader to assist in the prevention of inappropriate hospital admissions and the facilitation of hospital discharge in line with the overall objectives of the service.