Senior Out of Hours Nurse

Job overview

As an exciting time to join the Urgent Community Response Out of Hours Team, we are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Senior Nurse to join our team.

You will be a dynamic, motivated team player that enjoys working overnight and the autonomy of community working.

Experience of dealing with palliative care, catheter care and triage is preferred but full training will be given.

Main duties of the job

To lead in the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own place of residence by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care in order to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitating early supported discharge. You will be expected to lead conversations with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on a regular basis enabling safe, appropriate and patient centred care to be delivered to this complex patient group.

This role will predominantly involve face to face nursing care and assessment within a patient’s usual place of residence, with an element of Triage and allocation for the Urgent Community Response Team on a rota basis plus other supportive activities as part of the Multidisciplinary Team.

This is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery are, 8pm-8am 365 days per year.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of the Urgent Community Response Team you will be required: To assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative and end of life care and/or rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.

To act as the patients advocate, facilitating choice and patient empowerment. To provide evidence based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on “best practice”. To work within the integrated team to support early discharge from hospital. To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital. To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users. To triage and allocate referrals on a rotational basis for the Urgent Community Response Team.