Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
In reach Care Home Nurse
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Care Home In Reach Nurse
This is a cross county post, covering Coventry and North and South Warwickshire, within the community Older Adults Team working with functional mental illness and dementia
This post supports our Hospital at Home Pathway which is a 7 day a week service working between the hours of 08.00-20.00
The Focus Of This Position Is
- Triage care home referrals: completing a full review at point of triage, to identify needs fully, respond to urgent needs quicker and improve service response time in both routine and urgent referrals.
- Care Home Liaison: building relationships with care homes across trust ensuring better communication, relationships and improving outcomes for service users who have complex needs.
- Reducing admission to both General and Mental Health Hospital.
- Better response time to urgent situations: as an in reach nurse to be able to respond within 1-2 working days for urgent contacts which will lead to better outcomes for both services and service users.
- Reducing impact on Older Adult Community Mental Health clinicians: as an reach nurse being able to support junior staff Nurses with community care home referrals.
The main functions of the care home in reach nurse is to support patients within the care home setting to try and prevent placement break and reduction in admission to both general and mental health hospitals
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In addition the care home in reach nurse will lead on completing Diadems assessments using the Diadem tool to reduce waiting times for patients within care homes who do not have a diagnosis of dementia and support with an increase diagnostic rates within care homes
The care home in reach nurse will provide a quicker response to patients to improve the service response time in both routine and urgent referrals.
The care home in reach nurse will promote collaborative working with care homes across Coventry and Warwickshire, supporting them to meet the needs of Older Adult patients through enhanced communication, modelling of good practice, skills and knowledge.
The care home in reach nurse will deliver strategies and support to enable residents to remain in the care home through crisis avoidance and stabilisation. Reducing placement breakdown and improved patient flow of dementia/ Older Adult patients to care homes. The role reduces the impact on Older Adult Community Mental Health clinicians by providing support with formulation and care planning.
About Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT)
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
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We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
- Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- Staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Hannah Thorley
- Job title: Operational Manager
- Email address: hannah.thorley@covwarkpt.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0300 303 4017
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