Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

We are currently looking for a motivated and committed B7 Nurse Practitioner who would like to have experience in managing the team and service.

Barnet Unplanned Integrated service works primarily as an admission avoidance service reducing the number of patients sent to hospital Emergency departments.

The Unplanned service also supports the early discharge home of patients on the Hospital at Home pathway for 1-14 days. Initially the service is for patients requiring IV antibiotic, however we will be stepping up to see patients who require monitoring of observation, COPD monitoring, heart failure, and blood taking.

The Hospital@Home ward operates from BGH and RFH. We envisage long term we will also receive patients from 111/999 and step-up patients from the RR and D2A pathway and other hospitals. We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nurse Practitioners, Senior Community Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist, Rehabilitation Support Workers, and Technical Instructors with administrator support.

This is an expanding admissions avoidance service working with both the primary care and the acute sectors to support and deliver treatment to patients in their own home. We are currently looking for a motivated and committed Band 7 Nurse Practitioner who would like to have experience in managing the team and service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner, collaborating with colleagues in primary care, community, and hospital settings as appropriate.

The post holder will be responsible for

• Be clinically and operationally responsible for the team Act as a role model.
• Be responsible for undertaking comprehensive health assessments, physical examination and ordering tests for patients on the RR, H@H pathways.
• Use advanced clinical decision making and assessment skills, coordinate care planning and initiate referrals to diagnostics for appropriate tests for this population.
• Be involved in establishing delivering and leading a comprehensive service within community services.
• You will play a leadership role within the team and work with external stakeholders such as London Ambulance Service and Social Services to develop new ways of working and through networking increase the number of referrals from the acute and community.
• Candidates should be an experienced nurse with sound clinical knowledge and proven experience in acute and community clinical environments
• You will need to be adaptable to operate in a fast-moving environment and have the clinical skills and ability to function as a lone worker in a larger team.
• Candidates should have excellent communication skills; and the ability to provide care as determined by the clinical assessments.
• Candidates will have undertaken professional  development and have extended nursing skills, with evidence to support this

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The clinical leads shift pattern will be over 7 days per week. Current shift pattern in the team are 8am -4pm and 2pm – 10pm. We also offer long days 8am -8pm and 10am – 10pm

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.