Nurse Specialist-Urgent Community Response Team

at  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2x enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 6 nurses to join our Urgent care response (UCR) team on 6 months fixed term or secondment contracts .UCR is part of the NHS Long Term Plan and Ageing Well Programme to support England’s ageing population and those with complex needs.
The post holder will work beyond normal professional boundaries as a Registered Nurse and will take responsibility, using a case management approach to work with the patient, family, carer, and the patient’s GP to manage the patients’ delivering a collaborative approach for avoidable hospital admissions. You will work closely with primary care, LAS, 111, secondary care, social care and other third sector organisations.
Under the support and guidance of the ACP team, you will review and make clinical judgements, which will require assessment, planning and implementation of treatment, ensuring that all specialist patients and their carers have access to appropriate advice and support.
The post holder will autonomously review patients at home. These patients will have already been assessed by a senior ACP with a plan in place, and your responsibility will be to support the existing clinical management plan with the support of the ACP team and under the guidance of our frailty consultant.
You will also support the team with our falls pickup service.
To work with the multidisciplinary team across an integrated pathway of care to deliver quality standards in line with NICE guidance.
To work with the ACP specialist team to ensure that all patients have equitable access to investigations, treatment and follow-up care .
To work with the UCR team to develop best practice in line with NICE guidance.
To work with the team to develop guidelines to enhance optimal management of patients.
To collect appropriate data against NICE guidance . To use audit as a tool to improve practice and evaluate services.
To work with the team to implement recommendations from National audits and benchmarking.
Please see the attached candidate information pack for full responsibilities of this role.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
To demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills and share this with others to positively influence patient care.
To develop own specialist clinical knowledge and skills and participate in the development of other staff
To reflect on own practice through clinical supervision/mentorship
To provide a comprehensive nursing service for patients with conditions within the specialty.
To work in close liaison with the multi-disciplinary team across the pathway in order to meet the needs of patients and their famillies , and to aim for seamless care.
To use clinical judgement and skills in decision making to manage this caseload of patients . To develop skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct appropriate intervention .
To assist in the development of the service
To vigorously promote the patient’s participation in decision-making, enabling informed choice of treatment .
To contribute to any audits requested by the Trust, Commissioners or Nationally.
To identify deteriorating patients and take the appropriate action to manage the situation, liaising with interdisciplinary team as appropriate .
To obtain valid and effective consent from patients prior to any investigations and treatment. Please see the attached candidate information pack for full responsibilities of this role

Please refer the Job description for details