Job Title: Rapid Response Advanced Nurse or AHP Practitioner Band 7
Location: Bridgewater Community
Pay Rates: Day £25.71 per hour
Sat/Nights £33.42 per hour
Sun/Bank Hols £41.14 per hour
Contract length: 3 months
Working hours: 37.5 over 7 day rota Part Time hours can be considered
preferably working 3 long days per week including weekends and bank holidays, 8am-8pm
About the Trust – Bridgewater Community Healthcare
Bridgewater Community offers high quality community and specialist services to people living in:
* Halton
* St. Helens
* Warrington
The majority of their services are delivered in patients' homes or at locations close to where they live. Such as:
* clinics
* health centres
* GP practices
* community centres
* and schools.
As a provider of both mainstream and specialist care, their role is to focus on providing cost effective NHS care.
They do this by keeping people out of hospital and supporting vulnerable people throughout their lives.
As a dedicated provider of community services, their strategy is to bring more care closer to home.
This means providing a wider range of services in community settings and to keep people healthier for longer by developing more specialist services to support people to live independently at home.
As a member, you'll have fantastic benefits:
* Competitive pay rates – work this week, get paid next week
* Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go – access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
* Essential support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime
* Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
* First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust – access before they are made available to agency
* Varied working options to suit your lifestyle – access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
* Training and development opportunities
* Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
* Stakeholder pension scheme available
What you'll be responsible for:
* To act as a senior clinical professional within the Rapid Response service, as an integrated health and social care team providing an urgent rapid response to Warrington residents, experiencing a health crisis. The aim is to support people to remain at home rather than be admitted to hospital. Liaising with patients the team and colleagues across the wider health and social care environment including NWAS the postholder will promote, maintain and enhance effective multidisciplinary patient care.
* To act as an independent autonomous practitioner to provide specialist treatment and advice to patients and staff which will contribute to the assessment, diagnosis, care and treatment of patients at home preventing unnecessary hospital admission. All referrals will triaged immediately and responded to within two hours, with referrals from NWAS prioritised.
* Possess and demonstrate extended clinical skills in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of patient care needs. Professional autonomy and clinical judgement will be exercised in managing, referring and signposting patients on to wider community services and assets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Clinical
* Participate in and undertake triage to ensure smooth progress of patients through the system.
* Comprehensively assess patients with complex physical, mental and social care needs using advanced clinical examination skills, detailed history taking and biometric monitoring and evaluation skills.
* Receive patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health care problems and initiate and conduct clinical investigations as appropriate.
* Analyse signs and symptoms, laboratory tests and other measures of function, in formulating a diagnosis.
* Perform a medication review and prescribe and change medications as required in accordance with national and local guidance.
* Prescribe following a full holistic assessment and diagnosis for an acute condition.
* Exercise independent and delegated prescribing rights in accordance with current and legal and CCG criteria, and within the clinical situation.
* Have an understanding of the combined impact of all patients' conditions on their health and social care needs in order to improve health outcomes and quality of life.
* Develop short-term individualised treatment and management plans using evidence based practice and proactively monitor patients and review care plans for up to 72 hours.
* Use advanced skills and expert knowledge to identify subtle changes in condition during this period and take appropriate action.
* Exercise a high degree of clinical autonomy and professional judgement, treating patients independently within the service, taking an asset based approach in supporting and managing the handover of patient care to other community based services.
* Identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs.
* Identify at risk patients and manage appropriately in accordance with national and local policy and procedures.
* Act as an advocate for the patient at all times to ensure their individual needs, preferences and choices are taken into consideration.
The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.
You'll have the following qualification/experience:
Qualification:
* NMC Registered Nurse / HCPC Registered Allied Health Care Professional
* Possess a level 7 Masters degree in advanced clinical practice (or equivalent clinical masters degree which includes modules in advanced clinical assessment & pathophysiology)
* V300 Non-Medical Prescribing
* Teaching /Mentorship Qualification
Experience:
* A minimum of 6 month within similar community role
* Urgent Care or Primary care skills and knowledge
* Experience of working in an emergency care/ First contact role and or Crisis management environment within the last 2 years
* Experience of working with patients of all ages.
*Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.
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INDNATB
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £25.71-£41.14 per hour
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Unlimited paid holidays
Experience:
* Clinical Practitioner: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
* NMC (required)
* Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person