Registered Nurse Intermediate Care

Job overview

Are you passionate about working in the complex area of frailty in the community?

Are you a confident registered nurse and decision maker, who can think on their feet and embrace positive risk taking ?

Would you like to work in a dynamic, ground-breaking, and fully integrated intermediate care team?

If the answer to the above is yes, then we would like to hear from you!

Due to re-organisation and restructure in adult community services, we have brand new opportunities for band 5 registered nurses.

Working to a home first agenda, the role is to support service delivery across inpatient, emergency department and community settings.

Our service consists of Health and Social Care colleagues. Consultants, GPs, Advanced Care Practitioners, Urgent community response practitioners, Social Workers, Nursing, Occupational therapists,  Physiotherapists, Discharge Team, rehabilitation assistants and Multi-Disciplinary Assistants all work together to support patient flow. We operate 7 days, 365 days a year to support some of our most vulnerable, older people with frailty.

You will be based across our 4 community bases in addition to our new purpose-built Hub at Harrogate Hospital.

We are proud to offer our Community Nurses:

• A full induction including a community welcome pack
• Preceptorship programme

Main duties of the job

• To undertake the provision of high standards of nursing care in relation to unscheduled urgent community response, hospital at home and intermediate care in the community.
• When required inreach into acute services in ED and acute frailty unit and SDEC
• To plan, implement and evaluate episodes of care.
• To plan and organise workload and delegate to other staff when necessary.
• To undertake nursing assessment, diagnosis and treatment appropriately.
• To work alongside senior nurses and Matron to support the delivery of nursing intervention
• To undertake intermediate care  assessments on behalf of the team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification for further details.

We welcome enquiries about this role before or during your application process. If you would like to find out more then please feel free to contact one of our Clinical Locality Managers who will be able to answer any questions which you may have.

**This job advert will close as soon as a sufficient amount of applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if you are interested.**