NHS@Home Nurse or Paramedic

Job overview

We are seeking a Nurse or Paramedic to join our team!

NHS@Home is an innovative service, providing care for people who are acutely unwell in their own homes across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. It offers an alternative to hospital and helps people return home from hospital more quickly, to.

The service uses a mixture of face-to-face visits & telephone calls, and remote monitoring through digital technology, to help people recover safely in the comfort of their own home.

NHS@Home has pathways, covering a wide range of conditions including frailty, respiratory, heart failure, OPAT, Infection and general surgical recovery. Our team provide a very wide range of acute healthcare treatments within the home, in addition to monitoring health conditions and vital signs for deterioration.

The service is run in partnership between Sirona care & health, North Bristol Trust, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

"Knowing I was being discharged into the care of the NHS@Home respiratory service made the world of difference to me - I felt very reassured by the fact that the respiratory team were monitoring me so frequently it helped me feel safer and less afraid." -N.L, service user

Main duties of the job

Your duties will require exemplary clinical, communication, IT and trouble shooting skills to enable you to:

• Provide clinical face to face and virtual monitoring and assessment of patient in the @home service, advising on care and treatment and reporting changes in patient condition as required in line with local protocols and guidance.
• Providing acute care to patients (in their homes) with complex and specialist needs in the community, across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
• Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to develop, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Assessing the health and psychosocial needs of the patient within the hospital and community setting.
• Plan and implement treatment and use a wide range of service to meet their needs.
• Utilising a wide range of clinical skills to support the ongoing management of patients in their home environment e.g. Comprehensive Health Assessment, observations, venepuncture, ECG, bladder scanning and wound care.
• Communicating effectively, networking and liaising to ensure high quality responsive, safe, efficient and compassionate care is provided for our patients, carers and families.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

If you currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 14 months remaining until the expiry date. If you do not disclose your expiry date within your application, it may not be considered. Please only provide the expiry date and not your share code within your application.

Please use your 'Supporting Information' to demonstrate and provide evidence in how you meet the Person Specification below.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.