This post will involve working across both the Intermediate care Team and Community nursing team. It is a newly developing post to increase integration across the services.
You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes.
Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and the local voluntary sector services. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and ‘can do’ attitude.
- To provide initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs of patients and carers in the community. When planning a programme of care, physical, social and emotional and cultural factors are taken into consideration and suitably qualified staff used to facilitate the level of care agreed.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner in the planning and implementation of nursing treatment programmes.
- To advise and instruct carers and patients on health and wellbeing issues, and self-care strategies
- To carry out specialist and shared complex nursing assessments, to include continuing health care, medication review , prescribing and palliative care.
- To utilise a broad range of specialised nursing skills and knowledge aligning practice to the organisations Medicines Policy for Registered professionals and the NMC Standards for Medicines management (2007) ensuring assessment and competence is maintained and recorded as a nurse prescriber.
- To monitor and evaluate care programmes for patients and carers, promoting effective co-ordination and continuity of patient care.
- To formulate and undertake the nursing care of patients as agreed with the patients themselves and their carers, following a patient contract, within the home environment.
- The care to be carried out is evidence based. Judgement and analysis is used to compare treatment options.
The Newton Abbot Intermediate Care Team and Community nursing team are based at Sherborne house. The Community Nurse team is also based at Tower House Surgery in Chudleigh. We cover a large geographical patch covering the practice population of nine GP surgeries.
A busy but friendly and supportive team we are committed to staff development through education and training helping staff realise their potential in topics of interest to them and encouraging career pathways in Community Nursing.
We pride ourselves on delivering high standards of care and building relationships within the communities we are part of.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anna Knights Job title: Intermediate Care Team Lead Email address: anna.knights@nhs.net Telephone number: 0300 500 40 42
