Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Staff Nurse
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Job Title: Adult Physical Health, Senior Staff Nurse
We are seeking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled Adult Physical Health, Senior Staff Nurse to join our dynamic, integrated multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team.
In this exciting role you will be an integral part of the team developing new pathways to provide Same Day Emergency Care in the community alongside other Adult Community Services, Social Care, Acute Trusts and Primary Care colleagues.
About the Rapid Response Team
The Rapid Response Team are part of the SE London Accelerator Programme. The Rapid Response Team are delivering the essential elements of the Urgent Community Response pathways. The Rapid Response Team has been operational since 2013 and is a multi-professional team consisting of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, and support staff. The team provides holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age of 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley GP and live in the Borough of Bexley. The Team treats/manages/cares for patients in their usual place of residence with an urgent health or social care need.
The team is based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich and operates 7 days a week, on an 8am-8pm basis, focusing on rapid 2-hour assessments to patients with potential short-term intervention(s).
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The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team including Consultant Geriatrician, Senior Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Social Services colleagues to meet the needs of patients referred to the team, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice with a strong emphasis on falls, frailty.
- Conduct comprehensive nursing assessments for patients within acute and community settings.
- Demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills to guide appropriate nursing intervention and, when appropriate, avoid unnecessary ED presentation.
- Be skilled in the management of breast drains, wound care, and intravenous antibiotic therapy.
- Work across hospital sites on a planned basis and in the community when responding to urgent community referrals.
- Undertake delegated line management of junior staff, both informal and formal basis.
About the Team
The team acts as a liaison between acute and community settings by identifying the most appropriate onward referrals and initiating integrated care pathways, ensuring seamless provision of care and ongoing case management. Referrals are received from Health and Social Care professionals, Medical Teams, General Practitioners, and Ambulance Services.
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
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We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose
To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ibinabo Orubo
- Job title: Advanced Primary Care Nurse
- Email address: ibinabo.orubo@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0203 889 0980
Matron Cherie Trew or ACP Berth Ware/APN Ibinabo Orubo
0203 889 0980
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