The Discharge to Assess Team/Intermediate Care at Home Team are looking for a Registered Community Nurse, to fulfil an exciting opportunity within Stockport Foundation Trust. We are looking for someone who shares our excitement, to embrace different ways of working and are able to work flexibly across organisational boundaries.
Discharge To Assess is a multi-professional service supporting patients to leave the hospital setting back into the community. The team provides individualised patient centred care to assess a person’s needs, whilst optimising independence and facilitate a safe transfer to onward care into the appropriate services: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies.
The Intermediate Care at Home Team provide nursing and therapy rehabilitation to our Stockpot residents.
To support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or another community setting.
Assessment for longer-term care and support needs is undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person. We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.
Short-term rehabilitation support to optimise independence in the community with the aim to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. This role will require the post holder to be flexible to cover all areas within the Discharge to Assess service, covering 7 days 08.00-21.00.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Larysa Smith Job title: Band 7 Team Lead Email address: larysa.smith@stockport.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0161 835 6694
For further information please contact the Discharge to Assess team on 0161 835 6694
