Clinical Care Home Nurse

Are you looking for a new challenge? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced RGN to join our friendly care home team in Arrow Primary Care Network. The focus of the role is to support the PCN GP practices in managing the residents in their aligned care homes, ensuring the PCN delivers the Enhanced health in Care Home contract.

Arrow PCN includes the following GP Practices:

Daybrook Medical Practice

The Ivy Medical Group

Plains View Surgery

Unity Surgery

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working with the Lead Care Home Nurse and Care-Co-ordinator, you would participate in the weekly care home rounds, undertake full holistic reviews, plan programmes of care including referring to other services.
• Reviewing residents care needs on admission to the care home and following hospital discharges.
• A significant part of the role is supporting residents and their families with advanced planning and the ReSpect process.

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

The role would suit a nurse who has excellent communications skills and an ability to work across numerous locations and with multiple health and social care teams. The successful candidate will have good clinical assessment skills and a thorough knowledge of local services to enable referrals to a wide range of other services. The role would ideally suit an RGN with practice nurse or community nurse experience.

This role and will be attractive to nurses who have a passion for providing excellent care and welcome the challenge of supporting some of the most complex patients in our community.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• RGN registered with NMC
• Post registration experience of managing frailty
• Experience of working across health and social care
• Sole use of a vehicle to get to multiple care homes and GP surgeries

PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us:

Benefits of working for PICS

We offer a comprehensive package which includes:

• NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
• Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
• A flexible approach to a work-life balance
• Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• All staff events and conferences
• Free parking across many sites
• Personalised induction into the company and job role

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The post holder is responsible for ensuring that the residents and care home managers in within the PCN locality receive assistance in accessing health care interventions by signposting to the most appropriate person to provide care

The post holder is responsible for consulting and collaborating with other Health Care professionals and specialists across both primary, secondary, social care and the voluntary care sectors

To take a significant role in the assessment and treatment of patients in care homes with complex illnesses.

To confidently consult with patients/families/carers to determine the needs of individuals and develop and review care plans to support care.

To confidently make autonomous decisions following assessments and ensuring that information is collaboratively communicated back to the Senior PCN Clinical Care Home Nurse /…