GR - Community In Reach Nurse - Hospital to Home Edinburgh

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.

A link to the NHS Lothian Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan can be found via the following link:

Recruitment process We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set our in our Strategic Plan. Click the link below for more information on our interview questions.

Community In Reach Nurse - Hospital to Home, Edinburgh Partnership

The Edinburgh Hospital to Home service is part of Edinburgh District Nursing service and provides nursing interventions as well as providing social care to patients approaching end of life, or in crisis. The RN team also manage IV antibiotic therapy to patients in their own homes who are too frail to attend hospital. Edinburgh Hospital to Home team support and facilitate hospital discharges as well as preventing hospital admissions. The Community In Reach Nurse (CIRN) role is pivotal in achieving successful transitions between hospital and community settings. The CIRN works closely with health and social care colleagues across acute and community to provide a seamless transition to home. The postholder has the responsibility for influencing and facilitating patient/carer centred integrated care pathway for the patient prior to their hospital admission and during the discharge process striving for an effective discharge management process, utilising high levels of decision-making and clinical judgment. The CIRN is responsible for establishing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating discharge management in both the acute and community sectors as well as supporting and working closely with the local District Nurse teams.

Informal contact for Hospital to Home

In addition to your clinical skills, we are interested in your attitude, passion for working in healthcare and your potential to contribute to our high quality patient care, as well as demonstration of personal values aligned to those of our organisation: NHS Lothian Values

If you would like to arrange a stay and grow conversation to discuss your career, career pathways and opportunities within NHS Lothian please click the link below.

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