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Main Responsibilities

As a Nurse/Paramedic, you will work with a good degree of independence, carrying out tasks and responsibilities delegated by the lead clinician . You will be an important part of the team, helping to meet the needs of patients in community settings, initially focusing on those referred through the 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR), and later supporting the development of broader referral pathways.

Working within a multidisciplinary team and across primary, secondary, acute, and social care services in Wiltshire, you will play a key role in coordinating specialist interventions for people who might otherwise require hospital care, or who need timely support to leave emergency departments safely.

You will take responsibility for your clinical caseload and help ensure smooth coordination of care throughout each patient’s journey.

As part of this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Clinical practice – Providing evidence-based advanced clinical skills to support appropriate patient care, under the guidance of a registered clinician. This includes assessing patients, interpreting tests within your scope of practice, and planning care and treatment. You will recognise early signs of deterioration, respond promptly, escalate when needed, and document your actions clearly.
• Management – Organising your time and workload effectively, advocating for patients, managing your caseload day to day, offering advice and treatment recommendations, working closely with clinicians in the Virtual Ward team, and contributing to supervision.
• Leadership – Serving as a positive role model for colleagues and promoting collaborative working. You will help challenge traditional boundaries in a supportive way while upholding high standards of quality, safety, and professional practice.
• Supporting the learning environment – Demonstrating commitment to your own professional development and supporting the learning of colleagues and student nurses.
• Continuous improvement – Noticing areas where practice can be strengthened and contributing to improvement efforts within a Just Culture that values reflection and learning.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered nurse/Paramedic
• Evidence of study at Level 6 or above
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• IV therapy competency
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Experienced in the use of NEWS2 diagnostic tool and when to escalate
• Contribute to the development of others, supervising and teaching, mentoring, including student Nurses
• Previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Good IT skills
• Work within the NMC code of conduct.
• Knowledge of community environment
• Good Communication skills including IT literacy and knowledge of computer systems.
• Undertake evidence based clinical practice.
• Experience of caring for people with long term conditions
• Experience of pressure ulcer prevention
• Awareness of self-neglect, safeguarding and abusive situations to be the patients advocate
• Ability to be an effective team member. Awareness of team dynamics.
• Work within the boundaries of legislation, policies, procedures, and standards.
• Clean driving licence, Car driver and access to a vehicle for daily use

Desirable

• Knowledge of clinical systems such as Systmone.
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Postgraduate certificate in advanced practice or relevant specialty

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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