Staff Nurse- OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy)

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

The closing date is 28 January 2025

Job summary

To work as part of the new Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) service who provide clinical expertise which ensures clinical excellence underpinned by evidence-based practice.

Treatment will be provided in an outpatient setting or in the patient's own home working alongside our existing community services such as DAART and Virtual Ward. This is to facilitate admission avoidance and early discharge thus reducing the length of stay in hospital for patients receiving IV antimicrobial therapy with the support of microbiology.

To provide the treatment for repatriated STW GP based patients that are requiring home IV treatment following appropriate governance processes. To coordinate and support the IV service and Trust in any new developments of service pathways that the OPAT service can provide under the lead of a Consultant.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

To ensure that personal professional practice meets and exceeds the standards set for provision of patient care and contributes to overall excellence within the clinical area.
Regularly, to take charge of a clinical area, including the assessment of patient care needs, and the development, implementation, and evaluation of patient care programmes.
To act as the OPAT co-ordinator in the absence of senior personnel.
To provide professional leadership and support to nursing colleagues.To contribute to the effective use of resources and assist in the ordering of replacement stock in the absence of the Housekeeper /HCA.
To assist with supervising and assessing student nurses with their learning and experience in OPAT.
To maintain effective communication with various disciplines, relatives, patients and outside agencies within the clinical environment.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Date posted

14 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

825-6039472-OPS-B

Job locations

The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Mytton Oak Road

Shrewsbury

SY3 8XQ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

RGN NMC Registered

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi agency health/social care/ environment
Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services.
Experience with Intravenous Antibiotic treatment and physical assessment

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Able to assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
Evidence of personal and professional development.
Influencing, engaging and collaboration skills.
Evidence of using research to enhance quality of care.
Good knowledge of profession specific core skills and processes.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

RGN NMC Registered

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi agency health/social care/ environment
Experience of successful partnership working arrangements with other services.
Experience with Intravenous Antibiotic treatment and physical assessment

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Able to assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
Evidence of personal and professional development.
Influencing, engaging and collaboration skills.
Evidence of using research to enhance quality of care.
Good knowledge of profession specific core skills and processes.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).