Overview
The Royal Wolverhampton Planned Care Teams are highly motivated and passionate about providing high-quality, evidence-based care to patients in their own homes.
Possessing a ‘can-do’ attitude and a commitment to improving the way healthcare is delivered. We need exceptional individuals with a passion for delivering high-quality care with a focus on patient safety.
You must be a Registered Nurse. The District Nursing Specialist Practitioner Qualification or relevant degree, e.g. palliative care, wound care, chronic disease, is desirable. You will be IT literate and be confident in utilising applications to enable remote consultation with patients/to attend MDTs.
If you think you have what it takes, or you are looking for a change and want to work more autonomously in a challenging environment, with opportunities for further career development, then the community could be for you.
The staff work closely with members of the wider multi-disciplinary teams, including local Hospices, the Urgent Care team, the Care Coordination Hub, the Ambulatory Teams and the Support Care Teams.
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Duties
To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.
To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.
To support and deputise for the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in ensuring the standards of professional practice as set out by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role are maintained.
Utilise clinical proficiency in delivering a high standard of nursing care. Provide managerial and leadership skills to support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse and nursing team to deliver continually improved standards and efficient and effective use of resources.
About Us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands, providing primary, acute and community services, and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.
We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the healthcare problems of tomorrow.
We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs, and as such, will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Alexandra Devers-Hollinshead
Job title: Interim Matron
Email address: alexandra.devers1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07500100604
