NHS
Virtual Ward Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner – Band 4
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Job Description
- Req#: C9262-25-0138?language=en&page=522&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Providing care to patients either remotely or within a community setting, who require high quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective, and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate high levels of care and compassion promoting independence, prevent hospital admission or admission to care, support early discharge from hospital helping people receive the care at home.
- Provide necessary support to individuals requiring ongoing care needs, monitor individuals remotely and deliver specific treatment/care plans and be directly involved in the wider MDT approach to admissions avoidance plan of care.
- Support remote monitoring of a patient's condition escalating concerns to the specialist clinical staff or senior decision maker
- Provides holistic person-centred care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions in a variety of ways.
- Providing care to patients either remotely who require high quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective, and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.
- Support our patients within a community setting providing timely assessment, treatment and effective discharge from the service.
- Prevent hospital admission or admission to care, support early discharge from hospital helping people receive the care wherever they are all home.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
- If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
- If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
- Registered Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner Qualification
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Understanding scope of practice and professional accountability
- Experience of working in Acute and Community settings
- Demonstrate evidence of working as part of a multiprofessional team.
- Recognise and work within limits of own competence
- Evidence of CPD
- Ability to work autonomously
- Experience of delivering teaching / education to patients/ carers
- IT skills and ability to analyse data.
- Enthusiasm and ability to work as part of a team
- Extended Clinical skills of venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation, wound care
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes electronic patient record system
- Awareness and application of digital technology.
- Awareness of the National virtual ward programme
- Able to travel independently of public transport across North Cumbria.
- Able to work flexibly across a range of acute and community settings.
- Registered Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner Qualification
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Understanding scope of practice and professional accountability
- Experience of working in Acute and Community settings
- Demonstrate evidence of working as part of a multiprofessional team.
- Recognise and work within limits of own competence
- Evidence of CPD
- Ability to work autonomously
- Experience of delivering teaching / education to patients/ carers
- IT skills and ability to analyse data.
- Enthusiasm and ability to work as part of a team
- Extended Clinical skills of venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation, wound care
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes electronic patient record system
- Awareness and application of digital technology.
- Awareness of the National virtual ward programme
- Able to travel independently of public transport across North Cumbria.
- Able to work flexibly across a range of acute and community settings.
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner in the Virtual Ward
The Virtual Ward has been commissioned to provide a safe alternative to manage and monitor a specific group of patients with acute respiratory illness, Frailty or Heart Failure as an alternative to hospital admission and /or to facilitate earlier discharge from hospital. The patients care will be delivered in their own home by utilising cutting edge patient friendly technology to provide remote monitoring, along with additional tailored in person or telephone support.
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to enable patients to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life?
The successful post holder will be accountable to the Virtual Ward Lead Nurse and will be personally accountable for the nursing standards of delegated duties, providing evidence-based care, advice and information to patients and carers.
Main duties of the job
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Date posted
05 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
262-A-24-6903151
Job locations
NCIC
Wigton Hospital
Cumbria wide
CA7 9DD
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Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
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Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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).
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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).
Employer details
Employer name
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
NCIC
Wigton Hospital
Cumbria wide
CA7 9DD
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
NCIC
Wigton Hospital
Cumbria wide
CA7 9DD
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.