Rapid Response Nurse

Overview

Working Part time: 24 hours per week. An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Rapid Response team, covering Cheshire West and Chester. Due to innovative expansion and integration there will also be a new base at Tarporley Communinty Hospital.

All of these roles involve working with Community Support Workers, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and the wider multi disciplinary team. The main objectives of the team are to expedite and facilitate safe and timely discharges from wards and emergency department areas, and provide resettlement, rehabilitation, care and medication support at home.

The post holder will need to maintain a strong patient centered focus, whilst being adaptable, autonomous, relate well to colleagues across a range of disciplines in hospital and community, and able to work under pressure.

• You will be responsible for identifying and assessing patients located on wards and in the emergency department for suitability at home with Rapid Response Team intervention.
• You will be expected to expedite discharges and provide assessment, nursing care, advice and information to patients, relatives and carers within the home or appropriate care setting.
• You will be aiding the Community Support Workers and Therapy staff to maximise patients’ independence and optimise their safety and quality of life, to maintain patients’ in their home, where possible.

• Discharge Planning skills
• General nursing experience either acute or community
• Medication management
• Knowledge of chronic conditions
• Palliative care
• Wound care skills
• Knowledge and experience of community services

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.