Job summary

The Job vacancy is for a Specialist Nurse Practitioner within the Rapid Intervention Team/GP Home Visiting Service.

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic and flexible service providing unplanned and urgent care. The team support patients through acute episodes of ill health in their own homes as an alternative to hospital. They provide enhanced and complex care in a crisis then hand stable patients to Planned Care colleagues.The successful person should have excellent communication skills, strong decision making ability and clinical expertise, together with a drive and passion for improving the way healthcare is provided.

Desirable criteria to include Advanced Health Assessment and V300 Nurse Prescribing or already working towards.

The service will be operating a 24 hour service as part of new service initiatives including bank holidays therefore team members will be expected to work shifts on a set rolling rota basis. As this is a community based post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential.

Main duties of the job

To deliver autonomous advanced level practice encompasses aspects of education, research and management but is firmly grounded in direct compassionate care provision or clinical work with patients, families, caseloads and populations.

Nurses working at an advanced level will promote public health and well-being using 'making every contact count' as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers and families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.

To be accountable for :

Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice

Enhancing the patient's experience

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives

Efficient and effective use of resources

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.