Job summary
Hospital At Home Band 7 Clinical Lead Nurse
The brand new Hospital at Home service was set up in
December 2022 to provide hospital level care at home for our frail patients. Because
of this we have a number of Band 7 nursing posts available for dedicated
skilled practitioners.
The service gives suitable patients the opportunity to
receive acute care and treatment where they feel most comfortable in their own
home. Patients will be seen by a variety of skilled healthcare professionals
including doctors, nurses and AHPs.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for nurses with Advanced Clinical Skills who
are willing to develop further as part of the Hospital at Home Team. You will
be expected to assess, plan care and monitor patients in conjunction with their
medical plan.
You will be supported and have the opportunity to develop
your career further while in post. This is a really progressive new service and
we are seeking enthusiastic senior nurses to support its development.
If you have any questions, you can contact:
Rowena Lloyd-Squires- Clinical Lead r.lloydsquires@nhs.net
Harriet Lamble Service Manager: h.lamble@nhs.net
Closing Date- 08/06/2023
Interviews week commencing 19/06/2023
About us
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is a friendly, supportive, busy but welcoming acute and community Trust that is ambitious about developing our services and your career.
Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development. There are over 4,500 members of our Royal Surrey family.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in the community and homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. We are investing in our colleagues through our health and wellbeing programme and a commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.
There has never been a better time to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Hospital at Home team works with the acute frailty team to provide a service in patients
However, the majority of referrals are for our frail elderly population. This is conducted through
a comprehensive assessment in the patients own and the provision of short intensive
intervention. This will be working with the Urgent Community Response team and other
services including GPs, Community Matrons and nurses, therapists and rehabilitation
assistants Guidance and expanding the team.
The service operates 8am to 8pm 7 days a week and the post holder is required to work shifts
within this times.
The Hospital at Home team are based in the Community Coordination Centre triaging referrals
in the Hospital at Home services. You will be expected to visit patients that require holistic
assessment and care in order to keep the patient at home. These may be patients already
known to Adult Community Services who have had a change in their care/nursing needs or
new patients referred in from external services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Hospital at Home team works with the acute frailty team to provide a service in patients
However, the majority of referrals are for our frail elderly population. This is conducted through
a comprehensive assessment in the patients own and the provision of short intensive
intervention. This will be working with the Urgent Community Response team and other
services including GPs, Community Matrons and nurses, therapists and rehabilitation
assistants Guidance and expanding the team.
The service operates 8am to 8pm 7 days a week and the post holder is required to work shifts
within this times.
The Hospital at Home team are based in the Community Coordination Centre triaging referrals
in the Hospital at Home services. You will be expected to visit patients that require holistic
assessment and care in order to keep the patient at home. These may be patients already
known to Adult Community Services who have had a change in their care/nursing needs or
new patients referred in from external services.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in leading an MDT team.
- Management of complex patients with a frailty markers and or multiple co-morbidities.
- Advanced clinical skills with experience of history taking and physical assessment.
- Experience of working autonomously.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Experience of working with people with long term conditions.
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to Nursing.
- Understanding of health care policy and how this impacts on community service.
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to integration.
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities is relation to Hospital at Home.
- Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously.
- Experience of staff management and appraisal.
- Demonstrable evidence of service improvement/implementing local change Demonstrable evidence of service improvement / implementing local change.
- Ability to prioritise and managed daily department workload, assess patients care needs and teams workload without direct supervision.
- Business planning skills.
- Working as part of a fully integrated MDT.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent, specialist knowledge acquired through relevant experience.
- Current NMC registration.
- Current 1st Level Registration (Registered Nurse).
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development and significant post-graduate experience in community healthcare.
- Teaching, learning and assessing NMC Assessor/Supervisor.
- Health assessment level 7.
Desirable
- Leadership Qualification.
- Management Qualification.
- V300 Non-Medical Prescribing.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (V100) qualification.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in leading an MDT team.
- Management of complex patients with a frailty markers and or multiple co-morbidities.
- Advanced clinical skills with experience of history taking and physical assessment.
- Experience of working autonomously.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Experience of working with people with long term conditions.
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to Nursing.
- Understanding of health care policy and how this impacts on community service.
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to integration.
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities is relation to Hospital at Home.
- Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously.
- Experience of staff management and appraisal.
- Demonstrable evidence of service improvement/implementing local change Demonstrable evidence of service improvement / implementing local change.
- Ability to prioritise and managed daily department workload, assess patients care needs and teams workload without direct supervision.
- Business planning skills.
- Working as part of a fully integrated MDT.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent, specialist knowledge acquired through relevant experience.
- Current NMC registration.
- Current 1st Level Registration (Registered Nurse).
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development and significant post-graduate experience in community healthcare.
- Teaching, learning and assessing NMC Assessor/Supervisor.
- Health assessment level 7.
Desirable
- Leadership Qualification.
- Management Qualification.
- V300 Non-Medical Prescribing.
- Non-Medical Prescribing (V100) qualification.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
