Are you a confident, innovative, forward thinking professional who is looking to use your skills within unplanned care? Do you like change? Do you like to think outside the box? If you answer 'yes' to any of these then we are the team for you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Home First Unplanned Care Nursing Team based in Milton Keynes. Home 1st provides a 24/7 seamless service in supporting unplanned care and admission avoidance in the community. We are currently recruiting band 5 Registered Nurses to work within Home 1st Unplanned Care.

We are looking for clinicians ideally with community experience to join our nurse lead team. When you join our team you will contribute to our goal of developing our service beyond the traditional scope of Nursing in response to the challenging health care needs that we are facing nationally.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

Main duties of the job

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, and The NMC Code.

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

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

To response in a timely manner to unplanned nursing care referrals.

To recognise the deteriorating patient and escalate appropriately.

Management of patient care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as

Manage the effective coordination and continuity of patient care working closely with external agencies and community

To ensure that clinical practice is contemporary to meeting the needs of patients and to ensure each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.

To provide health information and health promotion for patients and their

To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing / care home, community nursing services and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital

To evaluate your practice through audit and outcome measures with support of senior colleagues when

To maintain and develop specific departmental duties as designated by clinical

About us

If you thought there was something more you were looking for, then CNWL can offer:

• Flexible working
• Buying and selling annual leave
• An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits from dependents, ill health retirement benefits and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay)
• Employee assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
• Staying well at work service for tailored employment related support to staff
• Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
• Staff wellbeing zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
• A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) network
• Disabled employee's network
• Carers at Work network
• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME)
• Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust benefits: you can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks.
• Childcare vouchers
• Salary sacrifice
• Travel discounts
• Interest free season ticket loans

Job description Job responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

CLINICAL

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, and The NMC Code.

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

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

To response in a timely manner to unplanned nursing care referrals.

To recognise the deteriorating patient and escalate appropriately.

To make clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly with support from senior

To ensure effective implementation of infection control

Management of patient care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as

Manage the effective coordination and continuity of patient care working closely with external agencies and community

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

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

To provide health information and health promotion for patients and their

To participate in resource projects, teaching, mentoring and health promotion programs as

To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing / care home, community nursing services and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital

To evaluate your practice through audit and outcome measures with support of senior colleagues when

To maintain and develop specific departmental duties as designated by clinical

To undertake any other duties that may be

To work at other sites in the trust if required.

Person Specification Registered Nurse Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Full Driving License and Use of Own Vehicle
• Demonstratable post RGN qualification

Desirable

• Community Nursing experience

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