Senior Nurse

Come and Join our Award winning team. In June 2023 the FHFT VFW / UCR team was Nominated for a Parliamentary Healthcare Award, we have further been nominated for a FHFT Facing the Future award. The Virtual Frailty Ward / Urgent Community Response team provides an innovative, responsive, safe, effective and caring service that is well led.  The team is commissioned to provide urgent community response / Acute hospital level treatment /intervention in the patients own home. We specialise in patients experiencing an Acute Frailty Crisis, Sepsis, exacerbations of long term conditions. The main aim to reduce or avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and promote patient choice in the delivery of care.   The Urgent Community Response team, whilst based at Frimley Park Hospital, delivers a joined up approach across the local Frimley Health and Care Integrated Board (ICB).

The Band 6 Registered nurse will be a skilled member of the Urgent Community Response team delivering experienced, well led, evidence based, autonomous care across North East Hampshire, Farnham and Surrey Heath.

¨      To work closely with the Consultant Geriatrician, Consultant Nurse for Older people, Advanced Clinical / Nurse Practitioners and administrative team to provide rapid response services and professional, high quality patient care to patients & families in the community setting.

¨      Implementing an individualised agreed Treatment / management plan; incorporating pharmacological considerations, long-term conditions management, frailty syndrome prevention and management, diagnostic reasoning and initiating onward referral to specialist teams as appropriate.

¨      Leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement.

¨      To be responsible for the implementation and evaluation of evidence based care recognising individual patient needs and preferences without direct supervision.

¨      Understand and meet the physical and psychological needs of the person liaising with the hospital at home MDT and other healthcare teams when participating in the care and support of the patient, enabling them to be cared for at home.

¨      To ensure patients care needs are met through maintaining their information needs, promoting their wishes and beliefs, and addressing their concerns in discussion with family or carers, when appropriate.

¨      To act at all times in the UCR/ VFW/ hospital or home within the policies and procedures of Frimley Health NHS FoundationTrust and also The Code (2018) and in a manner which promotes the reputation of the Trust.

¨      To act as an excellent clinical role model and exercise leadership within sphere of practice in the management of patients requiring home care.

¨      To participate in discharge planning and assessment of a patient’s needs, ensuring detailed communication with ongoing care providers  and safe discharge for the patient and carers.

¨      To promote health and prevention of illness, providing information to individuals to prevent or reduce deconditioning and adopt health promoting behaviours

¨       To recognise situations that may be detrimental to health eg housing, social and economic factors and safeguarding concerns and refer to an appropriate agency, liaising with community colleagues and appropriate sharing of information

¨      To work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care.

¨      To provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Trust and Registration standards and guidelines, both via paper and electronic records.

¨      To liaise with Team Leader on untoward incidents, complaints and Team/Staff issues.  To identify risk and implement change to promote safety and continuous improvement.

¨      To act in accordance with Trust policies and the NMC Code of Conduct.

¨      To check and administer drugs in accordance with the Trust/Unit medication policy and personal competency as prescribed.

¨      To maintain your own personal development and profile.  Identify learning needs and opportunities to meet them.

¨      Consolidate and extend own clinical skills in all aspects of nursing / Healthcare, furthering own professional knowledge and maintaining practice in accordance with current evidence and guidelines.

¨      Manage own workload effectively, prioritising and delegating appropriately.

¨      Competently and autonomously undertake extended roles within scope of practice such as venepuncture, cannulation, IV additives and cathererisation

¨      To work as an autonomous and lone specialist practitioner