OPAT Staff Nurse | Northern Lincolnshire NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 registered nurse to join our Dynamic Team to support the IV antibiotic service. Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) is a flexible service model that enables early discharge and/or admission avoidance for patients that require an intravenous (IV) therapy in their own home or clinic.

• To administer prescribed intravenous antibiotics as per trust policy, including inspection of the venous access site prior to administration.
• Acquire and maintain the skills and competencies to manage patient's OPAT clinical care and vascular access.
• Ensure any blood tests are collected as and when required.
• Liaise with relevant teams to ensure adequate supply of antimicrobials are available to meet patient requirements.
• Assess and monitor patient's condition and feedback to MDT.
• Recognise and escalate any issues or concerns around the patient's condition within the community, utilising specialist support from specialist clinicians in community services where necessary (i.e. Unschedule care team, CRT GP, Frailty ACPs).

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community. As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, which will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we ll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.