Overnight Nurse /Paramedic

Job summary

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic person to to join our new enlarged Enfield Overnight Community service.

As a senior member of the Overnight service Team, you will be expected to be a competent nurse who is able to adapt to Overnight servcie (community Admission Avoidance) Discharge to Assess (accelerated discharge service). You will be part of a community team where your proven ability to make high level clinical decisions will aid patient recovery.

This will include having a direct link to the patient's discharging medical team for liaison and support where necessary and with the patients GP or other health care professional to prevent hospital admission.

The Overnight Team's primary aim is hospital admission avoidance and ensuring patients remain safe in the community. The team reviews patients with worsening medical and functional conditions within their own home and liaise with the wider community teams to prevent clinical deterioration and admission to acute hospital.

Please see the Job description for further details.

Main duties of the job

To undertake highly skilled and complex nursing activities directly related to the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care.

To make skilled clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly.

To ensure that clinical practice is contemporary to meeting the needs of patients and families.

To ensure that each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and that their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.

To deliver nursing care to patients within their home, that is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity is enhanced.

To address distressing and emotional needs of patients and carers in an exemplary manner.

Attend regular MDT meetings with acute services, therapists, social services, care homes and GP Practices.

To participate in annual appraisal review.

To comply with all mandatory training: fire, violence awareness, CPR, manual handling, child protection and safeguarding of vulnerable adults.

To provide supervision, annual appraisal and monitoring the work of community nurses (Band 5), Health Care Assistants and students with support from senior staff

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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