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Form of workLocum Band7 Community Neuro Rehab Nurse
- 32 per hour
- Shifts 08:00-16:00
- Gravesend, Kent DA11
We are looking for an experienced and innovative Band 7 Nurse, with specialist knowledge within Neurological rehabilitation to join a newly established and dynamic Early Supported Discharge Service
- Ensure that all stroke survivors (who fit the specified criteria) have access to a high quality, stroke specific, multi-disciplinary early supported discharge (ESD) service.
- Provide a seamless transfer of care from acute hospital to either home or Community Stroke inpatient rehabilitation ward as appropriate.
- Enable appropriate stroke survivors to receive rehabilitation in their own home or a community inpatient setting at the same level of intensity as acute inpatient care
- Through partnership working to aid identification of patients appropriate to access service
- Enable stroke survivors to achieve mutually agreed rehabilitation goals to maximise their recovery and independence.
- Ensure stroke survivors, carers and families are involved in the process of rehabilitation.
- Provide highly specialist stroke rehabilitation in a multi-disciplinary team, including rehabilitation support workers.
- Develop strong relationships with relevant agencies (statutory and non-statutory) along the wider stroke pathway to support in-reach models of working and smooth transitions of care
- All candidates must be able to drive and have their own transport.
