Staff Nurse - Acute Hospital at Home

Job overview

Urgent & Unscheduled Care Division

Acute Hospital at Home Service - DCHFT

Registered  Nurse Band 5

An  opportunity has arisen to work in an exciting  integrated model for the delivery of patient care in Dorset County Hospital’s Acute Hospital at Home service. This  service proactively manages and monitors a defined caseload of patients who have complex care needs in the short term, on a multi-disciplinary basis in their own home.

As a trust we are support a number of overseas applicants into UK based roles.

If you are currently in the NMC UK registration process, and have completed your ILETS and CBT please contact our recruitment team (recruitment.dchft.nhs.uk) rather than completing an application.

Unfortunately if you are in the very early stages of your application we are unable to recruit you at this time, but if you are happy share details with our recruitment partner please email [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Patients are offered continuity of care by following them from hospital into the community and the post provides the opportunity to work more closely with community and primary care colleagues in a seamless service.

This is a service with the patient’s needs at its heart and aims to support admission avoidance and early discharge. The focus of the service is to support the acutely medically ill in their own homes by using inpatient level treatments, diagnostics and skills.

We are looking for  dynamic experienced generic Registered Nurses  to work in our multi-disciplinary team, ensuring a patient focused and individualised approach. Ideally you will have acute hospital experience as well as  experience of effective multi-disciplinary team working in its widest sense.  Car Driver Essential.

Typical daily tasks will involve:

• visiting patients at home
• giving intravenous medication
• holistic assessments
• complex wound management
• patient and family education (i.e with peg feed

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our DCHFT Job Description and Person Specification (attached) tells you all about this role, what to expect and what is needed to succeed. When completing your application please make sure to tell us how your experience and skills fit the person specification.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you are unable to view or download the attachment.

For all our roles, we are looking for staff who hold our Trust Values of Integrity, Respect Teamwork and Excellence, and who are passionate about providing the best patient care. To read more about our Trust and our Values search Dorset County Hospital online.