Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated nurse to join a dynamic multidisciplinary team at the centre of intermediate care services in Southampton. The Urgent Response Service is an admission prevention and early supported discharge service and works in partnership with other social and healthcare providers.

As a team member you will work with your multidisciplinary colleagues supporting and facilitating patients, who are acutely unwell, to remain at home by providing complex assessment, clinical monitoring and therapy to provide recovery. The role will allow individuals to gain experience and refine managerial and clinical skills within the team.

Ideally applicants should have experience within a community setting or equivalent relevant experience in an acute setting, with evidence of continued professional development.

As the successful candidate will be managing and developing staff members you will need effective interpersonal skills and show leadership skills to support flexible and positive approach. The staff member will be required to work over a seven day period which may include shift work. This post is for 37.5 hours pw and is based at Oakley Rd.

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of an integrated health and social care team providing a crisis intervention and early supported discharge service for patients across the City of Southampton registered with a Southampton GP practice.
• To have day-to-day responsibility for a designated caseload of clients requiring nursing/ rehabilitation/care management intervention and to organise and prioritise the required programmes of treatment (cases will be reviewed periodically by a more senior member of staff)
• Work within the community and in University Hospital Southampton ED as a lone practitioner managing situations of risk with telephone support. Seek support and advice with cases from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge, or skills.
• Obtain informed consent from client to treatment and work within agreed guidelines for clients unable to give informed consent. Obtain consent to the sharing of information and document all consent issues in accordance with relevant Trust and Local Authority procedures.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications
Essential

• Level 1 Registered Nurse
• Degree or willingness to undertake
• Teaching and Assessing in Practice/ Mentorship

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

We are an equal opportunities employer.