An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, forward thinking, and self-motivated individual to join our Community Response Team based over 2 sites in Leamington and Stratford.
The Community Response Team operates across the hours of 08:30- 21:30, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays. Shifts are allocated pro rata, we offer a mix of early, late and long days.
To be successful with this post, you must live in the UK and have a full NMC registration. You must also possess a valid driving license and have access to your own car for this role. Mileage will be paid for work-related travel.
As a Community Nurse working in CRT you will be responsible for assessing, identifying and managing patients needs who have had a deterioration in their health. You will have a varied caseload seeing patients with long term conditions, falls, acute illness, supporting patients at the end of their life, and providing holistic, comprehensive care to patients in their own homes. The Community Response Teams’ aim is to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate hospital discharges within a timely manner. You will also work closely with the Multidisciplinary Team, including: Therapists, GPs, Social Services, Urgent Response and many more. You will be working collaboratively with the other community service teams to deliver seamless care across the locality, working within an unpredictable and unscheduled workload.
The community staff nurse is a member of the Integrated Health Team, who
undertakes professional duties in the client’s homes and clinics to ensure provision of high standard nursing care and health promotion. To work across professional boundaries, providing comprehensive health care that is sensitive to the needs of the local population.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lakshmi Krishnaswamy Job title: Professional Lead Email address: lakshmi.krishnaswamy@swft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07407875628
