Clinical Community Pathway Co-Ordinator | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN25 4AN |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6177459/249-6177459 |
Summary
We are recruiting a Band 6 clinician to work within our integrated UCR (urgent community response) and NHS@HOME services based at our North Swindon community base. As part of this role the post holder will have a dual role undertaking home visits to assess and treat patients in their own home as well as working closely within our integrated discharge team based within the navigation hub at Great Western Hospital to facilitate the safe transfer of patients back into their home environment to continue their treatment. Supporting patients at home is our priority, optimising care and achieving positive outcomes for their ongoing health, wellbeing and independence. A requirement of this role is to have completed the physical assessment and clinical reasoning course at level 3 or 4 and have excellent communication skills. We provide a wide range of professional development opportunities to enable you to enhance your knowledge and skill. We aspire to being a fully integrated service, fully supportive of career progression and collaborative working.
Integral to this role will be the requirement to work flexibly within the navigation hub as well as undertaking home visits as part of our wider multidisciplinary team, as is the requirement to work autonomously and independently providing safe and effective care and treatment. We provide our services between the hours of 8am and 22.00 hours across a 7 day service working alongside our community nursing team, specialist community services such as community IV team, end of life nurses, community COPD and community therapy teams.
You will need to have excellent communication skills and be confident in developing and maintaining positive relationships with consultants, GP’S, nurses, therapists and specialist services. We are looking for a clinician who has achieved their physical assessment and clinical reasoning course (PACR), teaching and assessing qualification and ideally has community experience in assessing and treating patients within their own home. We are committed to supporting staff with professional development to extend their skills and knowledge.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service - We will put our patients first
Teamwork - We will work together
Ambition - We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect - We will act with integrity
1. To work as an autonomous practitioner managing and prioritising care needs through clinical assessment for patients with complex physical, mental and social care needs.
2. Work closely with the ward-based discharge coordinators, inpatient therapy teams and social care teams to facilitate an early discharge where possible.
3. Work with the clinical assessors and discharge coordinators to identify patients with complex health and social care needs who could be treated at home in the community.
4. To work closely with the multidisciplinary teams such as the ambulance service, emergency department, front door therapy team, ACP’s, specialist community services, and community nursing, promoting and supporting care and treatment in the patients own home.
5. Sharing information and acting as a link between the Hospital and Community services to help avoid unnecessary admissions
6. Excellent communication skills and knowledge of community services, mental health, social services and voluntary services within the Swindon area.
7. To use assessment and examination skills to plan, implement and evaluate evidenced based client centred interventions, maintaining the associated records in compliance with the standards from The Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), HCPC and the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
8. To use highly developed skills to screen, prioritise and delegate referrals into the service referring to other agencies where necessary.
9. To act as a clinician within Swindon Community Health Services with knowledge of longterm conditions, cognitive and functional impairments and end of life care which could have implications for the safe effective discharge of patients.
10. To understand how multiple health and social care needs will impact on the patient’s quality of life and what measures can be implemented to support and optimise this.
Please refer to attached JD for further information
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.