Nurse Specialist IV Therapy - Homecare - Bank London, England
Job description
Our clinical homecare nursing team really love what they do! Working in partnership with our NHS colleagues to provide individualised quality nursing care to patients requiring Parenteral Nutrition and other IV therapies in their home.
We are currently recruiting for bank nurses to join our team.
Location: Working with trusts and patients in Cambridge and the surrounding areas.
Working hours: Monday to Sunday. We work split shifts due to disconnecting the patients in the morning and connecting them in the evening. Therefore, our nurses work 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening with a break in the middle. As a bank nurse, you can choose to work either AM or PM shifts.
The main activities of the role include:
- Providing individualised quality patient care to Homecare patients in their home setting
- Demonstrating a flexible approach to support the nurse led service, working unsociable hours as and when the service requires
- Administering prescribed IV therapies and associated care and support to patients who are unable to be trained to independence
- Providing training and education to support patients/carers in the connection and disconnection of Parenteral Nutrition/to use infusion devices and any other prescribed therapies to independence
- Maintain contemporaneous nursing care records at all times in accordance with the NMC`s record keeping guidelines, appropriately managing sensitive information.
The ideal candidate will be:
- A Registered General Nurse with current NMC qualifications
- Excellent communication skills, time management skills and the ability to work well against strict timescales.
- The ability to make correct clinical decisions in a clinical emergency situation.
- Flexibility to travel to support Homecare patients and/or carers is essential.
- Your own car to travel to patients homes.
In return we will provide the following benefits:
- Training and validation support
- Company Pension scheme - employer contribution match up to 7%
- Learning and development opportunities
- Travel reimbursements
Become part of a corporate culture that actively promotes constructive exchanges between colleagues, customers and partners. Work with us to improve people's lives in the long term. We can offer you interesting, varied tasks and excellent opportunities for advancement, as well as an attractive salary with extensive benefits, all within a dynamic family-owned company.
