Virtual Ward Community Matron - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Virtual wards

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Matron to join a new service in the Virtual Ward team.

Virtual wards are a national initiative and defined as "A Virtual ward is a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care which is enabled by technology" NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Nottinghamshire Integrated care system, aim to deliver this through a Nottinghamshire wide provider collaborative, incorporating Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Nottingham University Hospitals, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare and City Care to deliver an ambition of beds across the Nottinghamshire by Dec 2023.

Virtual wards allow patients to receive care, remote monitoring and treatment they need in their own home, safely and conveniently rather than in hospital.

Virtual Wards provide healthcare systems with a significant opportunity to delivery care through the collaboration of community services and acute hospitals providing an alternative to an acute admission and/or early discharge.

As a member of the Virtual ward Multidisciplinary team the role of Community Matrons will support patient care to be delivered in the home providing an alternative approach to receiving hospital care or clinical monitoring.

The Virtual ward position whilst based at various sites and deliver a joined-up approach across the Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS).

Virtual Wards is anew servicecoming to Nottinghamshire.

It is designed to allow patients to receive the care they need at home, including care homes, safely and conveniently rather than in hospital, otherwise known as Hospital at Home with a current focus on Frailty and Respiratory pathways.

Virtual wards provide acute clinical care at home for a short duration (up to 14 days) as an alternative to care in hospital.

Patients have their care reviewed daily by a consultant practitioner via a digital platform that allows for the remote monitoring of a patient's condition and escalation to a multidisciplinary team.

Depending on patient need, a virtual ward may also require in-person care, eg to deliver a care assessment or acute level interventions such as IV therapy.

The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Virtual Ward Team provides holistic person-centred care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions in a variety of ways.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The search has begun for a Community Matron for a NEW SERVICE for Virtual Wards within the Community Health Services.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, highly skilled, flexible, and compassionate Community Matron to join this new and exciting service that covers South and North Nottinghamshire

You will work in the Virtual Ward Team and also in collaboration with system partners such as City Care, and Acute providers be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of delivering excellent patient centred care and innovation.

Providing care to patients either remotely or within a community setting, who require high quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.

Could this be the role for you, and we would love to hear from you if you can

Provide advanced assessment and visible clinical leadership skills and support the Virtual Ward Workforce, demonstrate high levels of care and compassion to support staff with supervision within the workforce.
To provide appropriate and effective case management through the virtual ward pathway to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and actively case manage individuals, providing necessary oversight and support utilising a V300 Non-Medical prescribing qualification
Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
To encourage and lead innov