This nine-month secondment places a registered nurse in the Hospital @ Home Respiratory Team at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, covering either the west or the east of the county. The role centres on managing patients with acute and chronic respiratory conditions in the community, supporting early discharge and keeping unstable patients out of hospital through a virtual ward. It blends acute and community nursing, with autonomous practice, day shifts from 8am to 8pm and one weekend in four. Applicants need a nursing degree and a car for home visits.
What the job involves
- Assess patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans in the community
- Work autonomously with patients, their families, carers and the multi-professional team
- Manage patients with unstable respiratory disease in the community to prevent hospital admission
- Support early or supported discharge of patients from acute medical beds
- Deliver enhanced respiratory care, managing a discrete aspect of patient care at specialist practitioner level
- Carry out venepuncture, IV administration, PICC line management and cannulation
- Work as a core member of the respiratory service and acute respiratory teams at Yeovil District and Musgrove Park Hospitals
- Visit patients across the assigned side of the county: west (Taunton and Bridgwater) or east (Yeovil and West Mendip)
What’s required
Qualifications
- Registered Nursing degree
Registration & licences
- Registered with the Nursing Council
Experience
- Managing respiratory patients in community and acute settings
- Working as part of a multi-professional team
- Enhanced understanding of respiratory conditions
- Proven leadership and management experience with respiratory patients
Skills & knowledge
- Enhanced clinical decision-making and reasoning shown through analysis and interpretation
- Good standard of literacy and English language skills
- Ability to take overall responsibility and accountability
- Strong prioritisation with competing demands
- Ability to cope with potentially distressing situations, such as delivering unwelcome news
- Keyboard skills and written communication, including documentation, email and reports
Checks & eligibility
- Car driver with own vehicle for travel within and beyond trust boundaries
Other
- Physically able to do the work, including concentrating for long periods and working through frequent interruptions
- Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
Nice to have
- Relevant postgraduate study
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
- Non-medical prescribing
- Evidence of educational support to others
- Experience in a leadership role
- Research or audit participation, and understanding of the process
- Experience of developing guidelines, protocols and care pathways
- Understanding of the NHS framework, government policy and current local and national issues
What’s offered
- Flexible working options
- NHS pension scheme
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Strong focus on career development
- Blue Light Card discounts and NHS-specific perks
- Generous mileage allowance for NHS business, covering mileage and depreciation
- Enhanced payments for additional unsocial hours
- Comprehensive training and competency package
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
