Band 7 Nurse Virtual Ward

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom North Middlesex University Hospital Full time

Job overview

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We are look for a nurse who will proactively manage a caseload of patients requiring complex case management in order to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge to improve patient health outcomes. Patients requiring case management in the Rapid Response and Virtual Ward service will be identified by case-finding in the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit, Accident and Emergency department, NMUH wards and also via Community referrals e.g., GP, Care Homes, Community Nurses, and LAS. 

The post holder will be a senior nurse within the NMUH VW Service and therefore act as a clinical leader and role model to staff, offering clinical advice on the care of patients with complex needs as required. They will work with colleagues and managers to support the integration of care pathways and patient care across community and acute settings. This post will also involve in reach to hospital settings.

Main duties of the job

Working autonomously, the post holder will have continuing responsibility for proactively monitoring and managing, patients on the caseload. The post holder will be expected to develop skills in physical assessment, diagnostic reasoning and nurse independent prescribing and use these both in the community and ambulatory care centre setting. Using these skills will assist in the recognition of early symptoms of disease exacerbation, acute illness, and injuries. 

The post holder will be expected to co-ordinate care and navigate the patient through pathways across the primary, secondary care interface, including the prevention of unnecessary admissions, facilitating appropriate ones through in-reach case finding in both the hospital setting also via GP referral.

Care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment will underpin all care delivered as well as Standards for Better Health Care, National Service Frameworks, the long-term conditions agenda, hospital avoidance and care closer to home.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical/Professional Role Provide specialist, high quality, expert nursing care and support for patients who are suitable for Virtual Ward (VW) care in liaison with the multidisciplinary teams (MDT) through assessment and care planning. Initiate agreed range of diagnostic tests. Refer to other disciplines/professions when required. Support patients to self-manage, monitor their condition, and make informed choices. Act as a named nurse for designated patients within the service Ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to required standards and to be a competent user of and participate in the ongoing development of the Trust’s planned Electronic Patient Record. Promote the development of evidenced based practice. Participate in clinical supervision to agreed standard Ensure high standards of care are given to all patients. Advise patients on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness. Be responsible for gaining intravenous access and administration of prescribed medication for patients requiring short-term antibiotics and for monitoring their care. Collaborate with medical colleagues in ensuring that appropriate investigations and procedures are performed to complete the patients’ treatments and that patient, and their families are fully informed and understand the purpose for these.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse with current NMC registration Evidence of continued professional development Advanced Clinical Assessment Course Independent Nurse Prescriber

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Phlebotomy, IV Cannulation and IV therapy skills and knowledge (Including PICC and Central line) Physical assessment skills training & V300 Prescriber Ability to assess and implement appropriate care plan and adapt plan depending on patient’s response to treatment. Ability to assess and identify the deteriorating patient Excellent clinical reasoning skills & decision- making skills Excellent drug/medication knowledge and able to link pharmacology to patient’s treatment and presentation

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive post registration experience in Acute care Experience of managing staff recruitment and retention Experience of managing a team

Trust Values

Essential criteria

Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your  identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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