Job summary
- Main area
- Community Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 225-DIV3-6277083
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Science Park
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 12:00
- Interview date
- 23/07/2024
Employer heading
![The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust logo](https://static.trac.jobs/employer-logos/412.png)
Specialist Nurse Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
The Job vacancy is for a Specialist Nurse Practitioner within the Rapid Intervention Team/GP Home Visiting Service.
The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic and flexible service providing unplanned and urgent care. The team support patients through acute episodes of ill health in their own homes as an alternative to hospital. They provide enhanced and complex care in a crisis then hand stable patients to Planned Care colleagues.
The successful person should have excellent communication skills, strong decision making ability and clinical expertise, together with a drive and passion for improving the way healthcare is provided.
Desirable criteria to include Advanced Health Assessment and V300 Nurse Prescribing or already working towards.
The service will be operating a 24 hour service as part of new service initiatives including bank holidays therefore team members will be expected to work shifts on a set rolling rota basis. As this is a community based post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
To deliver autonomous advanced level practice encompasses aspects of education, research and management but is firmly grounded in direct compassionate care provision or clinical work with patients, families, caseloads and populations.
Nurses working at an advanced level will promote public health and well-being using ‘making every contact count’ as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers and families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.
To be accountable for :
Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice
Enhancing the patient’s experience
Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives
Efficient and effective use of resources
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To see full list of duties and main responsibilities, please refer to the full job description on the Trust website.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Degree level study
Desirable criteria
- MCs level study
- Evidence of professional updating in last 12 months
- V300 prescribing qualification
Experience/skills
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience (i.e. specialist/nurse practitioner
- Community experience
Desirable criteria
- Admission avoidance/rapid response experience
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
- Rebecca Currie
- Job title
- Urgent Care Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917958099
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