Registered Nursing Associate - Willow Unit

Overview

NCH&C is hiring several multidisciplinary roles within the state-of-the-art new Willow Therapy Unit. Opened at Norwich Community Hospital in 2024, the new facility will provide a supportive and comfortable environment for 48 patients.

The restorative environment at Willow Therapy Unit will enable patients to make steady, step-by-step improvements and gain independence as they prepare to return to the community. Patients will be supported to play an active role in their own care and feel confident about performing daily activities when they leave. Everything down to the room decor, layout, and furniture at Willow Therapy Unit is designed to help patients get home faster - there's even a supervised kitchen where patients can make themselves drinks and snacks.

Healthcare will be delivered by a multidisciplinary team of clinical professionals dedicated to patient recovery and wellbeing.

NCH&C is proud to be a vibrant and inclusive employer of choice in Norfolk. Whatever your role, you can benefit from flexible working, training and career progression opportunities, and a comprehensive wellbeing offering including free staff gyms, free counselling, free physiotherapy, and regular refreshments.

• Be responsible for delivery of care in a reablement setting and support an environment where all team members are responsible for a reablement ethos using a positive risk-taking approach for patients, their carers and their families.
• To support patients being as independent as possible within their functional limits, working as part of a multidisciplinary team within a quality framework to ensure that the highest standards of care are met.
• To support and deliver innovation within discharge practice and pathways with system partners including the voluntary sector to ensure that patients experience a seamless transfer of care both into and onward from the unit.
• Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care to a named group of patients and work proactively within the team to achieve unit and trust goals and objectives and promote recognised policies, protocols, and guidelines.
• Engage with mobile working with Systm One Optimisation.
• Aware of the demand and capacity model which will reflect workload needs at any given time. Working in a flexible manner to meet the needs of the service - deliver actions in line with OPEL status as per on current escalation plan.

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Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills.