Staff Nurse Home First South (East)

Job overview

The Home First Team (South) are offering an exciting opportunity for a NMC Registered Band 5 Nurse to join the Community based Discharge to Assess (D2A) Service working in and around Stafford region.

The Team covers the whole of South Staffordshire and provides clinical support for patients in the community to support people to return home through the discharge to assess pathway following a period of acute care in hospital.

The team also work to facilitate safe hospital discharges for patients leaving acute care and to offer them nursing support in their own home environment.

The ethos of the team is to support people to remain in their own home and to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

You will be responsible for will assessing, managing, planning and delivering care, to patients allocated to the service. You work with and support peers, Senior Nurse Co-coordinator (Band 6) and be a proactive and effective team member.

The service operates a 24/7 service, and you will be expected to work 5 shifts in 7 days on a rota basis. We are currently offering part-time and full-time opportunities.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to travel independently over a large geographical area.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Nurse in the Home First Team, you will be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies. To establish and monitor good working relationships with other health and social care professionals, statutory and voluntary organisations.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
• Act as a role model and motivate team members in working towards innovative and high standard of practice.
• Participate and support the Senior Nurse Coordinator and Clinical Lead in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
• Support the Senior Nurse Coordinator and Clinical Lead in the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture.
• Provide holistic assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of care as part of the D2A process.
• Providing public health, health promotional programs to improve.
• Be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health.
• Early supported discharge.
• Advise Senior Nurse Coordinator and Clinical Lead of any issues that may affect the patient or the service.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed overview of the role and the requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in nursing or equivalent
• Registration with NMC
• Commitment to work towards Mentorship Qualification

• Working towards Mentorship Qualification

Training

• Evidence of / willing to undertake post-registration training relevant to post

Work Experience

• Relevant experience / placement to the role including assessment and management of long term conditions, post-operative conditions and wound care
• Ability to manage time and caseload effectively.
• Supporting service users, families and carers in dealing with people with nursing needs

• Experience in the delivery of healthcare
• relevant placemements including surgical and medical

knowledge

• Evidence of clinical knowledge relevant to the post, with knowledge of care planning
• Understanding of Information Governance, Data Protection
• NMC Standards and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

• Awareness of standardised assessments and outcome measures
• Awareness of relevant NSF's and NICE guidance

Skills and Competencies

• Basic IT skills
• Initiate, and participate in networks and discussion groups
• Discharge and transfer individuals where appropriate
• Provision of support and direction to student nurses, Promoting Independence Workers, Assistant practitioners and new starters
• Prioritise treatment and care for individuals according to their health status and needs

Personal Attributes

• Working across community settings and have the ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post.
• Flexibility with working hours to enable 7 day working