Exact Workforce

We are now a framework agency!

Congratulations to the Exact Workforce team on recently being awarded the Workforce Alliance RM6281 framework. We now have access to beneficiary hospitals countrywide and are on a full scale nursing recruitment drive.

Our mission is quite simple. We aim to support every beneficiary to reduce staffing gaps by supplying nurses at framework rates with quality and compliance as the core of our service. https://www.e-wf.co.uk/employers

We are on a full recruitment drive and onboarding experienced registered nurses who are passionate about their jobs and would like to make a difference. https://www.e-wf.co.uk/candidates

We are looking forward to working with you!

Vacancy: Social Worker - Discharge to assess
Term: Temp/Full time
Pay: £172 per day PAYE OR £187 per day Umbrella
Location: Colchester
Hours: 37hrs a week
Working style: Community based

Please email CV to [email protected]
or ring 020 344 20079

About the Role

Working to support adults, and their families, who have complex social needs and are more vulnerable as a result of disability, exclusion, or diminished capacity, you’ll maximise their potential to live independently. You’ll share ideas and best practice, providing specialist advice as part of a multi-disciplinary team sharing your knowledge as a Social Worker.

This is a chance for an experienced Social Worker to take a step forward in their career or to expand their knowledge and experience in working within a Discharge To Assess Model. This model of practice is ever evolving and developing and as a member within the team you will be an influencer of change and progression. You will be supporting adults who have recently been discharged from hospital or supporting them to prevent an admission into hospital. The ethos being to support Adults to leave hospital, when safe and appropriate to do so, and continuing their care and assessment out of hospital.

Wherever possible Adults will be supported to return to their home for assessment. Your support will be focussed on enabling adults to remain as independent and self-caring as possible in their own homes. However, some Adults may have been discharged to a temporary care home environment to aid their recovery and for a period of assessment to be able to identify their short- or long-term care and support needs. You will be working in collaboration with health care professionals and care providers using a multi – disciplinary approach to ensure the adults receive the right support at the right time.

Please note that the team operate on a 7 day rota and you will be required to work 1 weekend in 6 along with a share of public holidays.

Government announces plan to tackle elective care backlog

The government has set out its plan for tackling the backlog in elective care arising from the pandemic.

Before the pandemic, 600 people waited longer than a year for elective care, the health secretary Sajid Javid said in a statement to parliament.

That figure is now over 300,000. The government’s plans include establishing 160 community diagnostic centres along with surgical hubs focused on high-volume routine surgery away from major hospital sites.

Follow-up appointments will be arranged on a case-by-case basis, rather than being automatic for all patients. A new online service, My Planned Care, will inform patients about waiting times and how to prepare for treatment.

Javid said the steps would enable the NHS to perform at least nine million extra tests, checks and procedures by 2025 and 30% more elective activity every year than before the pandemic.

He promised that waits of longer than a year would be eliminated by 2025.

Source: Future Care Capital

Nurse staffing across the UK ‘now well past the point of crisis’

The Royal College of Nursing is calling for “decisive action” to grow the numbers of nurses being trained in the UK, in order to protect patient safety.

The college is making the demands on ministers as part of a new report it has published today laying out analysis it has carried out into the “state of the nation’s nursing labour market”.

The report warns that nurse shortages were a serious problem even before the pandemic, highlighting data from a survey the RCN conducted with nursing staff in January 2020.

Of those polled, 73% said staffing levels on their last shift were insufficient to meet the needs of patients safely and effectively.

However, one in five (19%) said they felt unable to raise their concerns about staffing levels and patient care, reflecting findings of a Nursing Times investigation carried out at the end of last year.

The new report from the RCN said Covid-19 had “highlighted and exacerbated” issues around recruitment and retention and raised fear that the situation would worsen further in the near future.

Issues highlighted by the college’s analysis included an ageing nursing workforce, an “over-reliance” on overseas recruits, and a rise in the number of nurses leaving the register.

The report found:

One in five UK nursing registrants, as of September 2021, were aged 56 or over and due to retire in the next few years;

The recent increase in the number of student nurses “does not reflect the size of sustained increase to nursing supply needed”;

Only 56% of new people joining the UK nursing register in 2021 were educated and trained in the UK, indicating a "sustained over-reliance on international workforce";

In 2020, 24,142 registrants left the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, compared to 26,863 in 2021 - an increase of 11.3%.

The report noted how, prior to 2021, the number of people leaving the NMC register had been decreasing year on year.

Source: Nursing Times