Digital Health Nurse in Bracknell

Are you an experienced clinician with remote triage experience? Do you enjoy working in a varied and fast-paced environment providing the highest quality patient care within a multi-professional team? If the answer is Yes, then we would like to hear from you!

EBPC are expanding and recruiting into our Digital Health team and looking for a Nurse to work weekdays and weekends included between the hours of 0800-1800, fully based at our headquarters in Bracknell.

The Digital Health Nurse will provide expert clinical case management, using virtual technologies, for patients living with short- and long-term conditions. Patients with short- or long-term conditions may be at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission. Hospital admission often results in increased length of stay. The Digital Health Nurse is a pivotal role for monitoring and responding to markers of declining patient health. Enacting timely escalation of concerns ensures intervention is delivered in the community setting; consequently, helping the patient regain stability, and preventing in-patient hospital admission.

• Be able to combine high-level remote monitoring with telephone assessment for patients with short and long-term conditions.
• Intervene when markers for deterioration are evident, subsequently initiating medical and/or nursing/therapy treatments, by alerting and referring to primary care multidisciplinary teams and professionals.
• Work with partners in nursing and residential care to ensure optimum health outcomes for their residents.
• Develop shared caseloads with Integrated Care System (ICS) Network by acting as an integral member of the community team.
• Possess well-developed clinical and professional leadership ability and use this proactively for the benefit of the Digital Health team.
• Support the Digital Health Team Leader in their management role when required.
• Supervise other health and social care professionals in the delivery of health promotion activities via the Digital health model.
• Work in alignment with Primary Care toward a shared vision of seamless management for patients with short- and long-term conditions.
• Maintain accountability for practice following the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct or the Health Care Professions Council and compliance with EBPC Policies and Procedures.
• Work autonomously with patients, their families and carers managing referrals according to need and priority.
• Critically analyse complex clinical data and information to inform diagnosis.
• Understand and support the achievement of EBPC's business plan objectives and performance targets.
• Identify the potential for service developments, risks and deficits and inform as appropriate to the Remote Monitor Service Manager.
• Assist the Team Leader to manage the effective use of resources within the Remote Monitoring team.
• Develop and sustain an effective and positive working relationship with a wide range of multidisciplinary teams and individual professionals.

• Use advanced clinical skills to remotely monitor and assess the physical and psychosocial needs of a defined client group.
• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for the Digital Health clinical caseload.
• Review individualised care plans for patients with short- and long-term conditions on admission to Remote Monitoring.
• Work with partners in nursing and residential care to improve the health outcomes of the residents.
• Use assessment tools/skills that will ensure an appropriate level of nursing or therapeutic intervention.
• Deliver care that is patient-centred, respecting diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements.

• Provide patients, families and carers with tailored advice and support.
• Be responsible for providing and maintaining a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development.
• Act as expert resource and assist in teaching advanced clinical skills for other health care professionals.
• Take responsibility for your own personal and professional development.

Maintain personal knowledge, skills, and competency through appropriate CPD, training and development opportunities. It may be necessary to change the days worked as the service develops and grows; therefore, flexibility is essential.

This post is one of continual development. The job description is intended as a guide to the principal duties and responsibilities of the post and complements individual objectives set in line with EBPC annual business objectives.

This post may require you to hold a current CRB Certificate which EBPC make application for every three years.

The EBPC is currently working in a climate of great change within the healthcare sector. It is therefore expected that all staff will develop flexible working practices within EBPC and across the health network.

The post holder will be expected to work at any establishment at any time throughout the duration of their contract.

EBPC attach the greatest importance to the health and safety of its employees. You are expected to make yourself aware of and comply with EBPC's and local Health and Safety policies.

EBPC aim to provide the highest standards of care. To further this aim you are expected to adhere to acceptable working practice as defined in EBPC policies and guidelines.

• Registered nurse or AHP
• Further clinical education to Masters level (level 7) in relevant discipline or equivalent training and experience or working towards Remote triage assessment.
• Post graduate community qualification e.g. community specialist practitioner.

• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Competence in a wide range of nursing skills.
• IT literate.

• Significant experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Community services experience.

• Willing to work in other areas of the EBPC as and when required to do so.
• Good time management.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.