Staff Nurse - Virtual Ward and Hospital at Home Team

Job overview

VIRTAUL WARD AND HOSPITAL AT HOME TEAM

If you are creative, a dynamic thinker and want to influence people to develop similar proactive ideals, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is the place for you. As a Community Nurse at the Virtual Ward you will be expected to manage daily operations of caseload, triage referrals for admission, support staff with patient escalation. Troubleshoot, safety net and make clinical decisions to keep patients safe at home. In addition, you will further develop junior staff. Proficiency in IT and the ability to quickly learn multiple computer systems are crucial for this position.

Please note this vacancy role requires face to face patient management as well as virtual management and therefore the team members will be expected to conduct face to face assessments in line with patient/ caseload needs. We are particularly interested in nurses with a surgical background as we look to develop our surgical pathways.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.

To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.

To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students.

To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors.

Providing IV medications to patients with a home environment and clinic/outpatient setting to avoid hospital admission.

Please refer to the vacancy job description and person specification and contact the senior sister of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.