Registered Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Registered nurse practitioners to join our team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Provide optimum quality of care to patients, offering support to the multi-professional team. Will take management responsibility for an identified caseload of patients on regular shifts. Provide care for patients within their own home administering intravenous antibiotics following assessment by COPAT team.

COpAT allows patients to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment that they need in their own home. This includes supporting early discharge out of hospital.

**A full UK valid driving license and access to a car is essential for this role**

Please note this post is not suitable for applicants who are required to undertake the OSCE training programme. Applicants who do not have current valid UK NMC registration will not be considered for this post.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an individual with  strong core clinical experience who can demonstrate working within the Multi-professional team and drive our ambitious vision to do things differently  for our patients, support our team to transform how we deliver care.

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to patients/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
• A competent practitioner, teaching, assessing and supervising/providing mentorship appropriate students or junior staff.
• Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated, involving patients and users.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide optimum quality of care to patients, offering support to the multi- professional team. Will take management responsibility for an identified area on regular shifts. Provide care for patients within their own home following assessment by the COPAT team
• Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities to support patient care pathways.
• Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data.
• Manage expected (and occasional unexpected) clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need, referring to a senior member of staff where appropriate e.g. in an unexpected event.
• Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards
• Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times

For further details please see the attached job description.