Virtual Ward Assistant Practitioner
☞ Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Update day: 02-10-2024
Location: Scunthorpe Yorkshire and the Humber
Category: Executive management Production / Operation
Industry: Hospitals Health Care
Position: Entry level
Job type: Full-time
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Are you an Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate and looking for a new challenge? Would you like the opportunity to work for Unplanned Community Services within Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust? Then look no further as an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Virtual ward team in North Lincolnshire.This post will cover the whole of North Lincolnshire under the guidance of the Frailty ACP’s and Virtual Ward coordinators.The local ambition is to bring all strands to work together across an agreed integrated Virtual Ward pathway moving from an individual provider focus to a system-wide approach. The aim is to improve efficiency and patient experience whilst reducing demand on acute hospital inpatient beds.Where it is safe and appropriate to do so, the virtual ward will provide acute clinical care at home (including care homes) with treatment and monitoring for people who would have previously been treated and monitored as inpatients in a hospital bed.You must be flexible, caring, and professional and have the ability to remain calm under pressure.The Virtual ward assistant practitioner is an integral part of the Virtual ward team providing quality nursing care to patients in the community.Duties will include unsupervised delegated nursing duties as defined by the Virtual ward coordinator/ACP, you will work alone developing and maintaining effective channels of communication with other professionals and agencies.The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner will be proficient and competent and work within their scope of practice as governed by the NMC Code (2018) and NMC Standards of Proficiency (2018).The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner will provide holistic and person centred care and support for people in their care.The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner may be expected to participate in audits and service improvement initiatives. The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner will be expected to supervise and support HCAs, Trainee Nursing Associates and Pre-registration nurses.It is anticipated that this role will continue to develop through the acquisition of further skills based on NMC (2018) guidelines and development of the Nursing Associate role.We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/Should we receive a high volume of applications for this vacancy, the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Almond-Bell Job title: Matron Email address: lucy.almondbell@nhs.net Telephone number: 07834172628Deadline: 16-11-2024
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