Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join West Kent Urgent Care Services Team. Our Urgent Care Service provides a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home. Our aim is to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare.

We carry out detailed holistic assessments, developing personalised plans of care in collaboration with patients and their carers. Our patients are complex, and require proactive risk management, in order to be maintained safely at home. We maintain clinical oversight, and ensure all actions are completed appropriately.

Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control and management via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observations and fundamental nursing care.

This service is providing nursing care within patients’ homes and covering West Kent.  The ability to drive is essential to this post.

Main duties of the job

•     Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care
  • The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient
  • To order equipment and send onward referrals as necessary
  • To support in the supervision and development of all junior staff including Health Care Assistants and Students
  • To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
  • To undertake a range of competent clinical interventions and identify any deterioration in patients’ condition, taking appropriate action.
  • Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs associated within a specific speciality.
  • To support in duty role and complete triages

Additional Working Pattern: Full and part time hours available.  Long days, weekends and night shifts

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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