Nurse Case Manager

Are you looking for an interesting and challenging community based role? We are a dynamic, friendly and specialist team and can offer you the time and opportunity to make a real difference to the quality of care that the people we support receive in community nursing home settings. We are looking for an innovative nurse case manager to join the team, working in close collaboration with colleagues from social care, Acute trusts, primary care, care home providers and our clinical commissioning group (CCG) to really make a difference for service users and their families. The successful candidate will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, responsible for providing person-centred, holistic assessment to facilitate discharge. Our team provides therapy and nursing input across 3 different care homes throughout the city. You will be expected to move between units as required to meet service need. Our caseload is referred into us from acute trust wards and often have complex medical history including fractures, frailty, respiratory, cardiac conditions, amputees and neurology. Our patients are with us for a short term rehab program and needs assessment to facilitate returning home as quickly as possible, facilitating discharge from hospital, ensuring their future needs are met.,

• To manage a caseload of Intermediate Care Unit based patients with complex needs, using specialist skills and evidence based/patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate intervention
• To provide supervision of students on practice placement.
• To participate in the planning, delivery and evaluation of Intermediate Care services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
• To be an active member of the inter-disciplinary Intermediate Care team in the provision of patient-centred care.
• To develop and provide clinical expertise in a designated specialism and participate in the dissemination of evidence based practice across the service.
  
  The team is spread across 3 care homes in the city and work very holistically in a supportive team environment to maximise the outcomes for our patients. We work closely with Therapists as well as staff from private sector care homes.
We have a strong emphasis on personal development, to improve ourselves and the service we offer. Regular supervision and appraisal is offered to all in the team, to build a better service for the patients who we care for. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.