Job overview

Sutton Health and Care have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join our busy and dynamic Urgent Response and Virtual Ward team.

The post holder will be working in the community as part of a multidisciplinary team to avoid unnecessary hospital attendance/admissions and facilitate early discharge from hospital.

The post is shared between providing a 2 hour urgent response to unplanned referrals across Sutton and undertaking follow up visits/contacts for patients being monitored on the Virtual Ward. 

Main duties of the job

• Act as an autonomous practitioner, responsible for the management of patients with 
  the support from the MDT/ VW Clinician and also the PCN Community Sister 
• Provide high quality, comprehensive holistic assessment (including physical 
  assessment) and treatments for patients and their families referred to the service 
  utilising a Single Assessment Process to achieve person centred care. 
• Provide assessments of risk and complex situations as required, utilising knowledge 
  and skills to interpret and make accurate analysis of patients’ and carers’ needs
• The post holder may be responsible for staff and in accordance with this – allocating 
  duties and work, providing clinical support and leadership, prioritising workload 
  demands and allocating resources as appropriate.
• To work closely with the MDT clinicians and provide support where required. This will 
  include virtual monitoring, health and wellbeing checks and pulse oximetry
• Provide a rapid response service the community nursing teams meeting a 2 hour 
  response time for urgent cases.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). 

 After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.