Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 164-6414199
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nottingham City Hospital
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
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Respiratory Virtual Ward Band 6 Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
A fantastic opportunity has arisen within respiratory medicine for a nurse to work within the 'respiratory virtual ward'. They which will be based within respiratory medicine at the CITY campus, NUH. You will be working alongside another band 6 nurse, and a band 3 administrator.
Virtual wards support patients to get the care, monitoring and support they need, from a hospital without actually being in a physical bed, in the hospital facilitating early discharge.
Working hours will be Monday to Friday. Will also be expected to support RAU/the SDEC as needs if patients require readmission/reescalation into the hospital setting.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.
The successful candidate will work alongside our community colleagues and hospital respiratory MDT colleagues to: identify suitable patients, facilitate early discharge, contribute to the virtual ward MDT, make the links with the community and then follow up accordingly. They will be the point of contact for the respiratory virtual ward at the hospital.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be working with the small but already established virtual ward team with our community virtual ward colleagues to help lead and support this new service.
The successful candidate should be motivated and have the ability to inspire staff and have previous experience and evidence of implementing changes and embedding good practise into the culture of our department. It is essential that you are able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team demonstrating excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to support the development of the respiratory service. The successful applicant needs to have excellent organisational and time management skills with an aptitude for problem solving. You must have excellent clinical knowledge and skills, demonstrated through completion of competency packages . You will need to be a good communicator, be self-motivated, provide high standards of clinical skills and have the ability to influence and drive innovative practice within a face growing and exciting speciality setting.
Person specification
NMC registered nurse
Essential criteria
- Current level one NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Nursing related degree
experience
Essential criteria
- respiratory experience
Desirable criteria
- virtual ward experience
- Experience in supervision of registered, non-registered staff and students
- Awareness of IT systems/EBP/CG
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an ability of CNS role, problem solve and to implement nursing change process
Desirable criteria
- • Able to critically analyse and evaluate research findings and apply these to clinical practice
Communication and relationship skilss
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
- experience participating in MDT meetings
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alice Khaira
- Job title
- Deputy Respiratory Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812276780
- Additional information
We would encourage an informal visit and a chance to chat to our virtual ward team.
Alice Khaira
Contact:
07812276780
0115 969 1169 x72212
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