Band 6- Associate Community Matron Haringey Urgent Response Services

The post holder will work in the Haringey Rapid Response and Hospital at Home team which is part of the wider multi-agency Haringey Urgent Community Response service which supports hospital discharges and admission avoidance. Hospital @ Home is co-located and integrated with therapy and district nursing colleagues and aims to respond to patient referralsin the community within 2 hours to prevent admission to hospital. The post holder willprimarily be working in Haringey borough but may be required to see patients in other NCL boroughs., Provide specialist, high quality, expert nursing care and support for patients who are suitable for Rapid Response and Hospital at Home care in liaison with the multidisciplinary teams (MDT) through assessment and care planning.

• Initiate agreed range of diagnostic tests.
• Refer to other disciplines/professions when required.
• Support patients to self-manage, monitor their condition and make informed choices.
• Act as a named nurse for designated patients within the service
• Ensure that nursing documentation ismaintainedtorequired standards and to beacompetent user of and participate inthe ongoing development of the Trust's planned Electronic Patient Record
• Promote the development of evidenced based practice.
• Participate in clinical supervision to agreed standard.
• Ensure high standards of care are given to all patients.
• Advise patients on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness.
• Be responsible for gaining intravenous access and administration of prescribed medication for patients requiring short-term antibiotics and for monitoring their care.
• Collaborate with medical colleagues in ensuring that appropriate investigations and procedures are performed to complete the patients' treatments and that patient and their families are fully informed and understand the purpose for these.
  
  Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.