Main area Acute Care at Home - North Staffordshire Virtual Ward Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (08:00 - 22:00 across 7 days including Bank Holidays) Job ref 205-7263308
Employer University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Acute Care at Home Service - North Staffordshire Virtual Wards, Floor 3, Smithfield One Town Hanley Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/07/2025 23:59
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Are you a Staff Nurse within an acute care setting looking for an opportunity to work within a Community Care setting whilst utilising your acute care skills to deliver a unique service that aims to bring hospital care to the Patient within their own home? If so, this unique role is for you.
The Acute Care at Home service is a partnership between the University Hospital of North Midlands (UHNM), University Hospital of Derby and Burton (UHDB), Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT) and Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT). The successful applicants will join an integrated, collaboratively focused team, employing proactive clinical practice and knowledge, toprovide clinical assessment, monitoring and support, as part of our urgent carepathways.
As a Staff Nurse working within the North Staffordshire team, you will play a key role in supporting hospital admission avoidance and supporting patients to leave hospital sooner than would otherwise be possible.You will deliver high quality, professional evidence-based care when visiting patients across North Staffordshire.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously under the guidance of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse and be responsible for the clinical assessment of a designated group of patients on the Virtual Ward.
They will carry out face to face visits to deliver care and assess response to treatment plans to inform consultant led programmes of care, always maintaining quality and safety standards.
As part of the role, they will utilise skills such as delivery of IV medications and health monitoring for patients with a wide range of medical conditions across North Staffordshire. They will act as a professional role model to staff and service users contributing to staff education and development plus quality improvement initiates and service development.
You will be required to have access to a vehicle which can be used for work purposes or able to travel as required to meet the needs of the service. Please note not all office locations or client care bases may be reached by public transport?
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Perform a wide range of tasks such as administration of IV medications, venous cannulation and venepuncture, urinary catheterisation, perform ECGs.
* Direct clinical assessment and care provision of people in their home environment, who have been identified as meeting the Virtual Ward admission criteria.
* Participation in daily Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and Consultant ward rounds, ensuring that patient related information is up to date and information is disseminated accordingly.
* Act as a point of contact providing advice, support and guidance to patients, relatives, colleagues and other professionals on issues relating to care.
* Communicating sensitive information concerning patients’ medical condition(s) and status which involves relationship building, displaying persuasive and reassurance skills always acting in the best interests of patients.
* Recording and communicating information relating to patient care in a clear and concise manner to a high standard.
* Demonstrating skills to assess and interpret specialist acute and other patient conditions within the patient’s home environment, initiating actions as appropriate.
* Management of medications, including providing advice and guidance, administration of Intravenous medications.
* Perform diagnostic testing including venepuncture, ECGs, Urinalysis, peak flow.
* Dealing with distressed relatives, care of the terminally ill and with the consequences of terminal illness.
* Contributing to the formal induction of all new staff and the development of staff training programmes.
* Contribute to the principles of clinical governance ensuring that quality standards are set and monitored.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration
* Degree level study in relevant field
Experience
* 1 years post registration experience
* Experienced in venepuncture
* Experience in an acute care setting
* Experienced in Venous Cannulation
* Experienced in IV medications administration
* Experience in an Acute Care setting
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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