BAND 4 NURSE

Job Description:

Main Responsibilities

Within this role, you will be expected:

• To take responsibility for completion of basic assessment processes under the supervision of the relevant members of the MDT to undertake Trusted Assessor Training when it becomes available.
• To actively work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide a high quality of occupational therapy and physiotherapy intervention to the patient.
• To actively participate in patients individual rehabilitation/programmes of care under the guidance of an appropriate professional.
• To also work with the MDT including GPs and colleagues in the local acute hospital in order to provide a rapid response short term intervention to persons who have been referred on the Discharge to Assess (D2A) and 2-hour rapid response pathway.
• To provide and promote a high standard of rehabilitation of patients.
• To work autonomously as well as part of a team
• To be able to use and take initiative to seek additional work to assist the team as a whole (e.g. team administration tasks, being the first point of contact for patients, families and other health professionals, assisting in the maintenance of service equipment).