Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Nurse Associate (RNA) to join our innovative Virtual Ward Team as a Discharge Clinician. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a cutting-edge healthcare model, enabling patients to receive hospital-level care in the comfort of their own homes. As part of the Virtual Ward Team, you will play a vital role in ensuring smooth and safe discharge from acute hospitals for patients, supporting their transition to ongoing home-based treatment.

Be a part of our forward-thinking Virtual Ward Team and help us redefine patient care!

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Main duties of the job

This role is an opportunity for a Registered Nurse Associate with NMC registration and an appropriate Foundation Degree.

  • Assess and prepare patients for discharge from the acute hospital onto the Virtual Ward (VW), ensuring they are ready for a safe transition to community care at the place they call home.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals, to identify patients suitable for the Virtual Ward, identifying clinical needs and liaising with the VW Hub coordinators.
  • Be able to consider a range of factors regarding service capacity/occupancy and consider this when reviewing potential patients to meet clinical priorities/consider acute flow pressures/VW availability.
  • Work together with the VW Hub to complete onboarding processes and handover care and escalation plans.
  • Coordinate necessary equipment, medications, and any care/AHP support to facilitate timely and efficient discharges onto the Virtual Ward caseload.
  • Provide education and support to patients and their families on the VW service.
  • Ensure accurate documentation of patient records, discharge plans, and communications with healthcare professionals.

 

About us

We provide safe, compassionate and high-quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.

 

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Fd in Health & Social Care.
  • NMC Registration as a Nursing Associate.
  • Fully Completed Care Certificate.
  • GCSE Grade A-C English & Maths or Equivalent.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

  • Have completed training or study in areas relevant to the role applied for, or be willing to undertake, for example: venepuncture, urethral catheterisation, leg ulcer dressings (depending on area of practice).

 

Experience

Essential

  • Experience relevant to the area of practice applied for.
  • Experience of working with patients & families from a range of cultures & backgrounds.
  • Experience of self-directed working and working as part of a team.
  • Evidence of good written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable

  • Have experience in more than one area of practice.
  • Other health care-related experience.
  • Community or Social Care experience.

 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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