Community Nurse
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
NEW NORTHUMBRIA VIRTUAL WARD SERVICE
Come and join our rapidly developingCommunity Response Team and help deliverthe Northumbria Virtual Ward Service.
This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful counties in England and be at the cutting edge of delivering acute care to patients in their own home.
The community virtual ward service will provide care to patients in their own home who would otherwise have stayed in hospital.
We have full engagement with our hospital consultants who will retain clinical oversight for their patients on the virtual ward to support the team across each specialist area including respiratory, frailty, heart failure and surgery.
Complementing and utilising our existing community therapy and nursing teams, our virtual ward team will provide intensive treatment, care and monitoring to patients requiring:
IV Therapies
Oxygen and nebuliser titration
Fluid offloading
Post-operative management
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within an MDT team working in the community in order to provide hospital level care to patient's in their usual place of residence.
To be responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined caseload by using team management and organisational skills.
To provide leadership, management and clinical supervision to a Virtual Ward Team and to work in collaboration with the wider Acute and Primary Health Care Team.
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year pro rata per annum
Closing date
06/03/2023