OPAT and IV Therapy Nurse (Band 5)

Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust

Job overview

Lincolnshire Community Health Services (LCHS) are working in partnership with the acute trust to provide a new and exciting opportunity for any registered qualified practitioner interested in delivering an IV service to patients in their own homes or community settings.

This job is open to all registered practitioners who are able to deliver or train to deliver IV Therapy, including nurses, paramedics both newly qualified and experienced.

A bespoke training package has been developed where you will work closely with members of the IV team as well as the outpatients and day theatre teams

The job will cover 7 days working, full and part time posts will be considered.

This teams aim will be to provide care to the patients within their own homes or community settings to help ease bed capacity within the acute hospitals and to deliver a care closer to home for their patients.

The new adventure is due to start as soon as possible and will involve a small team of registered practitioners working closely together to deliver patients IV Therapy, mainly antibiotics, to the patient within the comfort of their own homes or communities.

Teams will be based in three community hospital sites across the county, Gainsborough, Skegness and Spalding.

Teams will be line managed by a band 6 and over seen by the Outpatients and Day Theatres Clinical Team Lead.

Job duties.

You will be accountable for the daily delivery of IV Therapy through a CVAD device; interventions will include assessment, treatment, and evaluate your patients care, observations, drug calculations, blood taking, dressing, and recording visits and care delivered in a patient electronic record.

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full-time, Part-time

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum

Closing date

01/02/2023