Nhs@home Practitioner - Swindon, United Kingdom - Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Swindon, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Swindon Community Virtual Ward.
A virtual ward is a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care that is enabled by technology.

Virtual wards support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and support they need in the place they call home.

This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital or supporting early discharge out of hospital.

The virtual ward has multi-professional input from consultants, specialist nurses, advanced care practitioners and a wealth of other health and social care staff.

The Swindon Community Virtual Ward Team provides holistic person-centred care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admission or supporting early discharge in a variety of ways.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop new skills and help shape, develop and expand clinical pathways.

Whilst also helping to drive and transform the system by embedding the use of digital technology to release pressure on acute care and improve patient outcomes.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are now asking all integrated care systems (ICSs) to extend or introduce for the first time the virtual ward model with an ambition for all systems to deliver virtual ward capacity equivalent to 40 50 virtual ward beds per 100,000 population (equivalent to the delivery of up to 24,000 virtual ward beds), by December 2023.

The Virtual Ward will provide specialist led care for a variety of patients including those with respiratory conditions and Frailty.

This care is provided to them in the comfort of their usual place of residence using advanced personal remote monitoring equipment, enabling them to safely leave hospital sooner or not come into hospital at all.

The Virtual Ward clinicians are an integral part of the virtual ward.

The postholder will be delivering care, provide treatment and intervention to meet individuals needs in the community and in the Virtual Ward Hub.

Virtual wards provide acute clinical care at home for a short duration (up to 10 days) as an alternative to care in hospital.

Patients have their care reviewed daily by the clinical lead and virtual ward team.

Some patients will be monitored via a digital platform that allows for the remote monitoring of a patient's condition and escalation to a multidisciplinary team.

They will not only work with the Multi-Disciplinary Team across community services but, will also integrate themselves to do welfare checks on patients in the community.

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.

Service - We will put our patients first
Teamwork - We will work together
Ambition - We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect - We will act with integrity

Our clinicians plays a pivotal role on-boarding and discharging virtual ward patients ensuring equipment is used safely, following relevant training, and that it is maintained appropriately.

This is an exciting position that has a direct impact on improving the patient journey, increasing patient satisfaction and a reduction in hospital admission and length of stay.

Please see attached job description.