NHS Fast Track Nurse Practitioner

Norfolk and Waveney ICB are excited to offer this opportunity and look forward to hearing from you if you are a highly motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with a specific interest in compassionate end of life care.

You will be required to assess and evaluate patient conditions, in accordance with the National framework for NHS Continuing healthcare, fast track pathway. You will arrange personalised care, which will require close monitoring. You will be working closely with individuals and their families during a difficult time in their lives. You will be working as part of a team that strives to deliver a high standard of care.

You will be expected to undertake face to face visits to complete regular reviews and DSTs where appropriate. The successful candidate will join the Continuing Healthcare Fast track team, working with autonomy and holding responsibility for managing and prioritising your own workload against the needs of patients and the service requirements.

You will be required to receive, triage, and accept referrals from appropriate clinicians for patients with a rapidly deteriorating condition who may be entering the terminal phase. You will manage an individual caseload, supporting patients and their families with high quality, safe and compassionate care, commissioning appropriate packages of care for patients referred for NHS Continuing Healthcare Fast Track in accordance with Norfolk and Waveney ICB's policies.

You will act as a specialist resource for colleagues and other multi-disciplinary team members to advise on Fast Track completion and appropriateness, supporting colleagues with education, clinical work, audit and service development work.

You will need to be an effective communicator to share sensitive condition related information successfully with patients, providers and carers in a timely and understandable manner, using different communication methods to clarify understanding.

Working for our organisation, we are committed to integrated working with a wide range of partner agencies and individuals, including our local NHS Acute and Provider Trusts, GPs, County Councils, the voluntary sector and of course our patients. Our aim is to ensure we commission the right integrated services, enabling us to improve the experience of patient care and ensuring the best possible health and wellbeing outcomes for the Norfolk & Waveney community.

The organisation has a hybrid working system, with staff working from home and in the office when necessary. For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application. Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

Hybrid Working: The ICB operates a flexible approach to working. It is expected the majority of our staff will work from a combination of home and office (where possible). For staff designated in a hybrid role they should have a safe and suitable place to work with Broadband access and space for a desk, chair and monitors. At interview a discussion will take place between the recruiting manager and the candidate to ensure they are clear on what is expected.

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) plans and buys healthcare services for our local population. We are accountable for the performance and finances of the NHS across Norfolk and Waveney - a total budget of £2 billion a year. Known as NHS Norfolk and Waveney, the organisation works with local people, health and care professionals, and partner organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of our population.

The organisation is part of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System. A system dedicated to working with partners in local government, the voluntary sector and others and helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development and to tackle inequalities in health outcomes.

We believe strongly in creating a workplace built on teamwork, whilst allowing individuals to grow and develop in their own roles. Our main offices are based at 8th Floor of Norfolk County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, NR1 2UE however we have a local office for the East of the region based in Beccles and another in the West of the region based in King's Lynn, therefore travel across the Norfolk and Waveney footprint as well as out of county is required according to where our stakeholders are situated.

Our three ICS goals are:

• To make sure that people can live as healthy a life as possible.
• To make sure that you only have to tell your story once.
• To make Norfolk and Waveney the best place to work in health and care.

If you are someone who enjoys making a difference and would like to help people in Norfolk and Waveney live longer, healthier and happier lives then we would love to hear from you.