Senior Community Nurse - Frailty Team

An opportunity for a Senior Nurse to join the Community Assessment Unit (CAU) at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and the Urgent Care Response (UCR) team in the community. The post is a 30 hour-per-week substantive post covering the Fareham and Gosport Area, with the understanding that support will be provided to Petersfield CAU. You will be working within the outpatient CAU clinic setting at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and in the community setting where you will be responding to the urgent care needs of service users in their own homes. This is an excellent opportunity if you enjoy having varied work experience and want to broaden your knowledge and skills in both a clinic and community setting. This role is critical to preventing hospital admissions as part of the Ageing Well agenda and monitoring patients in their own home as part of the UCR virtual ward. As the role will be delivered in patients' homes and clinic-based settings, you will be working closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team. We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and motivated professional with excellent clinical and communication skills, who can work autonomously within the scope of practice as a registered practitioner. This position involves a proportionate amount of time driving when carrying out UCR visits, therefore you will need to be a car owner and have access to a vehicle for work with the correct level of insurance.Main duties of the job

• To work independently within the team and to be responsible for the Community Assessment Unit caseload and prioritising effectively, to ensure timely assessment and discharge.
• Carry out all aspects of patient care, treatments and procedures within agreed policies and procedures of the Trust.
• Take on a specific area of interest/project/link role and act as a resource for the team to develop.
• Deputise and support the Clinical Manager, ensuring smooth and safe running of the Unit.
• Participate in the appraisal system.
• Address poor performance as it occurs and manage and report any serious incidents of misconduct.
• Effectively manage staff absence according to trust policy.
• Ensure newly appointed staff are fully inducted and documentation completed.
• Ensure effective and safe skill mix when completing the three-monthly electronic roster.
• Assist in the first line treatment and referral of patients with complex medical conditions under the frailty model.
• Give and receive regular reports on the progress of patients, immediately acting on any changes in the patients' condition and reporting them to the relevant health care professional.
• Work with medical staff and other members of the health care team to ensure that treatments are carried out within agreed policies.
• Receive patients and their relatives in a calm, courteous and reassuring manner, participate in providing information and support.
  
  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

£39,959 to £48,117 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata