Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for virtual ward senior community nurse practitioners to join a new service in the Virtual Ward team.
Virtual wards are a national initiative and defined as "A Virtual ward is a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care which is enabled by technology" NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Nottinghamshire Integrated care system, aim to deliver this through a Nottinghamshire wide provider collaborative, incorporating Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Nottingham University Hospitals, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare and City Care to deliver an ambition of 400 - 500 beds across the Nottinghamshire by Dec 2023.
Virtual wards allow patients to receive care, remote monitoring and treatment they need in their own home, safely and conveniently rather than in hospital. Virtual Wards provide healthcare systems with a significant opportunity to delivery care through the collaboration of community services and acute hospitals providing an alternative to an acute admission and/or early discharge.
The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire virtual ward is a new service which aims to provide an innovative, responsive, safe, effective, and caring service.
The Virtual ward has positions available Nottinghamshire wide based at Ashfield health village and Park House but delivers a joined-up approach across the Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS).
Main duties of the job
Virtual Wards is a new service coming to Nottinghamshire. It is designed to allow patients to receive the acute care they need at home, including care homes, safely and conveniently rather than in hospital, otherwise known as Hospital at Home. Local focus is currently on developing frailty and respiratory pathways.
Virtual wards provide acute clinical care at home for a short duration (up to 14 days) as an alternative to care in hospital. Patients have their care reviewed daily by a consultant practitioner via a digital platform that allows for the remote monitoring of a patient's condition and escalation to a multidisciplinary team.
Depending on patient need, a virtual ward may also require in-person care, eg to deliver a care assessment or acute level interventions such as IV therapy.
The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Virtual Ward Team provides holistic person-centred care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions in a variety of ways.
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
About us
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
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Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Senior Community Practitioners for a NEW SERVICE for Virtual Wards within the North Nottinghamshire Community Health Services Division.
We are looking to recruit dynamic, flexible, and compassionate Senior Community Practitioners to join this new and exciting service within the localities of North Nottinghamshire (Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Bassetlaw) and South Notts (Nottingham North & East, West and Rushcliffe)
You will work within the existing Virtual Ward team and also in collaboration with system partners such as City Care, Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Doncaster & Bassetlaw and NUH, and will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of delivering excellent patient centred care and innovation.
Providing care to patients either remotely or within a community setting, who require high quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.
This could be the role for you, and we would love to hear from you if you can
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
- Support our patients within a community setting providing timely assessment, treatment and effective discharge from the service.
- have a thirst to use digital and remote technologies within your assessments
- Demonstrate high levels of care and compassion to promote independence, prevent hospital admission or admission to care, support early discharge from hospital and to help people to receive the care they require within the places they call home.
- Enjoy working collaboratively across organisation boundaries, within a multidisciplinary framework, analyse and develop treatment plans whilst providing compassionate, realistic, and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
For a full range of role responsibilities and duties please refer to the attached job description - please ensure you demonstrate the essential criteria in the Job Description and Person Specification in order to be shortlisted for interview.
We have a depth and breadth of services and teams within the Community Health Services Division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with many different clinical levels and skills: everyone has a role to play and everyone is highly valued. We love to grow talent and foster innovation from within our team....so if you have ideas, are highly motivated, flexible and open to new experiences and new ways of working...we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Senior Community Practitioners for a NEW SERVICE for Virtual Wards within the North Nottinghamshire Community Health Services Division.
We are looking to recruit dynamic, flexible, and compassionate Senior Community Practitioners to join this new and exciting service within the localities of North Nottinghamshire (Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Bassetlaw) and South Notts (Nottingham North & East, West and Rushcliffe)
You will work within the existing Virtual Ward team and also in collaboration with system partners such as City Care, Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Doncaster & Bassetlaw and NUH, and will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of delivering excellent patient centred care and innovation.
Providing care to patients either remotely or within a community setting, who require high quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.
This could be the role for you, and we would love to hear from you if you can
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
- Support our patients within a community setting providing timely assessment, treatment and effective discharge from the service.
- have a thirst to use digital and remote technologies within your assessments
- Demonstrate high levels of care and compassion to promote independence, prevent hospital admission or admission to care, support early discharge from hospital and to help people to receive the care they require within the places they call home.
- Enjoy working collaboratively across organisation boundaries, within a multidisciplinary framework, analyse and develop treatment plans whilst providing compassionate, realistic, and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
For a full range of role responsibilities and duties please refer to the attached job description - please ensure you demonstrate the essential criteria in the Job Description and Person Specification in order to be shortlisted for interview.
We have a depth and breadth of services and teams within the Community Health Services Division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with many different clinical levels and skills: everyone has a role to play and everyone is highly valued. We love to grow talent and foster innovation from within our team....so if you have ideas, are highly motivated, flexible and open to new experiences and new ways of working...we want to hear from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 1 Registered General Nurse
- Experience of working at a senior level
- Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience in a health-related subject e.g. Specialist Practice Degree or Leadership Qualification
- Able to demonstrate management competencies
- Advanced clinical assessments courses (Top to toe/Dreams)
Desirable
- Demonstrates continued professional development to maintain professional registration
- Holds a mentorship qualification and has ability to provide mentorship to others
- LBR qualifications
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- End of Life Care
- Frailty / LTC modules
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working autonomously
- Acute care experience
- Community or primary care experience
- Team Leadership
- Caseload Management and experience of triaging of patients with a range of clinical conditions
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of supervising and appraising staff
Desirable
- Project Management
- Conflict Management
- Experience of close working relationships with a variety of statutory agencies and other external organisations
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness of the NHS Modernisation Agenda
- Case management for complex patients
- Ability to seek out current best practice based on research and evidence based enquiry
- Knowledge of the nursing 6 c's
- Understanding of clinical risk assessments and risk management
- Ability to deliver joint managed care
- People and Resource Management
Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Teaching and assessing students
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- IT skills including Word, Excel and electronic patient record systems
- Effective problem solving and decision making skills
- Analytical and Diplomatic
- Motivated
- Able to lead by example
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Manging change
- Can demonstrate up to date evidence based clinical skills
Desirable
- A high level of emotional intelligence
- Ability to demonstrate RCA skills in investigating reported incidents
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 1 Registered General Nurse
- Experience of working at a senior level
- Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience in a health-related subject e.g. Specialist Practice Degree or Leadership Qualification
- Able to demonstrate management competencies
- Advanced clinical assessments courses (Top to toe/Dreams)
Desirable
- Demonstrates continued professional development to maintain professional registration
- Holds a mentorship qualification and has ability to provide mentorship to others
- LBR qualifications
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- End of Life Care
- Frailty / LTC modules
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working autonomously
- Acute care experience
- Community or primary care experience
- Team Leadership
- Caseload Management and experience of triaging of patients with a range of clinical conditions
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of supervising and appraising staff
Desirable
- Project Management
- Conflict Management
- Experience of close working relationships with a variety of statutory agencies and other external organisations
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness of the NHS Modernisation Agenda
- Case management for complex patients
- Ability to seek out current best practice based on research and evidence based enquiry
- Knowledge of the nursing 6 c's
- Understanding of clinical risk assessments and risk management
- Ability to deliver joint managed care
- People and Resource Management
Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Teaching and assessing students
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- IT skills including Word, Excel and electronic patient record systems
- Effective problem solving and decision making skills
- Analytical and Diplomatic
- Motivated
- Able to lead by example
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Manging change
- Can demonstrate up to date evidence based clinical skills
Desirable
- A high level of emotional intelligence
- Ability to demonstrate RCA skills in investigating reported incidents
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
