Job summary
NHS@Home is an innovative service, providing care for people who are acutely unwell in their own homes across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. It offers an alternative to hospital and helps people return home from hospital more quickly too.

The service uses a mixture of face-to-face visits, phone and video calls, and remote monitoring through digital technology, to help people recover safely in the comfort of their own home.

NHS@Home has pathways, covering a wide range of conditions including frailty, respiratory, heart failure, infectious diseases and general surgical recovery. Our team provide a very wide range of acute healthcare treatments within the home, in addition to monitoring health conditions and vital signs for deterioration.

The service is run in partnership between Bristol Foundation Trust and Sirona care & health and BrisDoc.

Join our team and become part of the future of the NHS
Services like NHS@Home are at the forefront of the NHS. They combine the very latest innovation and technology with holistic, person-centered and face to face - community care.

Working in our team you will learn a very wide set of acute care skills in a community setting. You'll also contribute to a multi-disciplinary approach, undertaking board rounds and working alongside consultants, advanced care practitioners, nurses and therapists to devise effective treatment plans that make a real difference to the lives of local people.

Main duties of the job
Working within the NHS@Home service as a band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse, your duties will include:

• Coordinating the daily operations of the NHS@Home service from the Southmead Site.
• Having an oversight of all patients being supported under the service.
• Supporting team members undertaking patient visits and make autonomous decisions regarding patient management plans.
• Undertaking accurate patient assessments within in-patient and out-patient settings.
• Supporting in-patient identification and manage referrals.
• Oversee system-wide service capacity.
• Assess patients and make comprehensive reports to the relevant MDTs.
• Support Clinical Operations Lead and Senior Sister with the development, implementation and delivery of new clinical pathways and care initiatives to support service growth
• Escalating clinical concerns appropriately.
• Working autonomously making effective decisions.
• Undertake community visits to deliver clinical care.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
For a full overview of the Job Description and Personal Specification, please refer to the PDF documents as attached as additional documents to this advert.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the NHS@Home team at Southmead, City & Weston Hospital sites and BNSSG system partners at Sirona and . Hours of operation are 0700-20:30

It is essential you hold a valid full UK driving license and have access to an insured car with business insurance. Travel expenses will be paid.

Person Specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential

• RGN with current UK recognised, live Registration
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification

Work Experience
Essential

• A current, acute and varied clinical background.
• Understanding of the acute hospital processes relating to the in-patient pathway and discharge process.
• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Appropriate post registration experience.

Desirable

• Knowledgeable experience of audit.
• Experience of service development.

Knowledge
Essential

• Is competent in a range of clinical skills
• I.T skills to include Microsoft Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook Email.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Able to demonstrate initiative and work autonomously
• Team leader, able to relate to all grades of staff.
• Able to work and remain calm under pressure.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).