Job overview

We are looking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our dynamic, integrated multi- disciplinary Rapid Response Service (RRT).

RRT was one of the 7 accelerator sites involved in the introduction and successful roll out, of the NHSE’s Urgent Community Response initiative.  RRT is a multi- professional team consisting of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers. The team aims to respond to crisis referrals within 2 hours and avoid unnecessary presentation to hospital and residential care, by supporting community patients who are in crisis and prevent direct hospital admissions.

The team provide holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley GP and live in the Borough of Bexley. The team are based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich and operates 7 days a week, on an 8am-8pm basis, providing an urgent community response to vulnerable people in the community.

Currently based at Goldie Leigh - Lodge Hill ,  but outreach to other acute hospital/community sites respond to urgent referrals from A&E, UTC, LAS 111, Acute Medical Unit, Short Stay Unit, Clinical Decision Unit, Day Care Unit GP’s and other community partners.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary UCR - 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, breast drain care and outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy, OPAT allows patients requiring intravenous antibiotics to be treated outside hospital. 

The post holder will conduct comprehensive assessment nursing assessments for patients within acute and community settings. They will need to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills to guide appropriate nursing intervention and when appropriate avoid unnecessary A and E presentation. The post holder will also have the opportunity to work closely with our Community Consultant Geriatrician.

The team work directly with (LAS) and act as a liaison between Emergency Departments, Community and Care home settings, by identifying the most appropriate onward referrals and initiating integrated care pathways, ensuring seamless provision of care and the instigation of on- going case management of long term condition management. The Rapid Response Team provides community follow up and support and review for up to 5 days.

Post holder will undertake delegated line management of junior staff, both informal and formal basis.

 

Working for our organisation

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.

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 is 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