Band 7 Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

The Urgent Community Response Team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission within their own home within 2 hours of referral to the service. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors.

The post holder will ensure access to Urgent Health Assessments, provide and monitor short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions. Utilising clinical expertise, clinical judgement, discretion and decision making in the development of individualised treatment plans.

To work in partnership with primary, secondary and other health and social care providers, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.

The post holder will be expected to work within a flexible working pattern over a 7 day week in the urgent community response team as required. Able to meet the travel requirements of the post and be independently mobile and as such it is essential for you to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Act as an expert practitioner, professional role model and specialist resource to the multi-disciplinary team regarding UCR /Virtual Ward.

• To facilitate early supported discharges from Acute hospitals.
• Work alongside the care co-ordination centre to facilitate discharges to community services.
• Facilitate teaching and supervision for less experienced members of staff and students
• Promote health by collaborative working with patients and their relatives. Act to and facilitate others to respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of patients; involving them in shared decision making and obtaining consent prior to all interventions.
• Safeguard individuals from abuse by reporting any incidents involving potential or actual abuse and acting upon concerns immediately.
• Participate in the further development of an integrated, multi-disciplinary Urgent Community Response Service working alongside colleagues in Integrated Multidisciplinary teams and the wider health and social care economy.
• Participate in and lead clinical meetings to facilitate the continuity of patient care ensuring patients and relatives are kept informed of treatments, progress, and discharge arrangements
• Participate in proactive service user engagement encouraging feedback and evidence actions taken in response to feedback received.
• Completing advance care planning for palliative patients, including respect forms.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant clinical qualification with current registration (eg RGN
• Health assessment course
• Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Minimal 4 years post registration experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Mentorship qualification

Desirable

• Non-medical prescriber

Experience

Essential

• 
  Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Experience of comprehensive clinical assessment of patients
• Experience of caring for patients who are acutely ill/require rehabilitation plan/end of life care
• Experience of effective caseload management
• Experience in line management and supervising junior staff
• Experience in facilitating professional development of other staff and ability to motivate others
• Experience in collection , collation and analysis of data for clinical audit and research

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Demonstrate achievement of numeracy (including drug administration calculations) and literacy skills. Ability to read / write and speak , receive and understand instructions in English
• Good IT skills ability to record information electronically
• Competent in a range of clinical skills willingness to undertake expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required
• Competent in managing the care of a group of patients / shift management and clinical leadership relevant to the practise setting
• Professional appearance
• Displays genuine interest in the post applied for and can articulate this when questioned
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Ability to communicate articulately others
• Caring and approachable
• Punctual
• Reliable
• Ability to work a varied shift pattern
• unsocial hours where required
• The applicant can describe why the Trust may deploy him /her to a different practice setting for a span of duty
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post and be independently mobile and as such it is essential for you to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points

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.

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.