Urgent Community Response - Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse/AHP)
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chichester, PO19 8EZ |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6241017/150-KW9075-UCR-B |
Summary
A Vacancy at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.
It’s an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we continue to build on our successful model. UCR services work with patients in their homes across West Sussex communities to avoid hospital admissions and support those being discharged home.
Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. They deliver:
• A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.
• A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges.
• Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse or Allied Health Professional) to join us, so if you’re a dynamic, patient focused individual looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent acute community care, we’d love to hear from you!
The focus of this role is to use your advanced clinical skills to assess patients, investigating and diagnosing their healthcare needs, ensuring they receive care and treatment that is compassionate and responsive to individual needs.
You will develop, utilise, and maintain skills beyond the scope of normal practice, such as advanced physical assessment, diagnostics, and prescribing. These will help you plan and direct the management of patients within the multi-disciplinary team and wider health, social care, education, vocational and voluntary sector services as appropriate to role.
You will lead on the strategic development of Trust-wide services in your specialist area, working with other strategic and clinical leads. Alongside this, you will lead and actively participate in education programmes designed to support other clinical staff in skills relating to the speciality.
An element of the role involves providing peer support to clinical staff working with patients from the direct caseload or those involved in the management of patients demonstrating conditions relating to the speciality. You will also be responsible for insuring that relevant legal and regulatory frameworks are acknowledged through local governance procedures. This involves being a competent research evidence consumer & to contribute to the establishment of protocols and guidelines for the development of the service. In line with this, you will also undertake and support research in the speciality.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
• Rated ‘Good’ with 'Outstanding’ features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients’ homes and in our community hospitals
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
• Supportive team environments
• Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Clinical Services Manager, Kate Woods, 07747 717 175, kate.woods1@nhs.net.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
It’s an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we continue to build on our successful model. UCR services work with patients in their homes across West Sussex communities to avoid hospital admissions and support those being discharged home.
Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. They deliver:
• A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.
• A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges.
• Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse or Allied Health Professional) to join us, so if you’re a dynamic, patient focused individual looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent acute community care, we’d love to hear from you!
The focus of this role is to use your advanced clinical skills to assess patients, investigating and diagnosing their healthcare needs, ensuring they receive care and treatment that is compassionate and responsive to individual needs.
You will develop, utilise, and maintain skills beyond the scope of normal practice, such as advanced physical assessment, diagnostics, and prescribing. These will help you plan and direct the management of patients within the multi-disciplinary team and wider health, social care, education, vocational and voluntary sector services as appropriate to role.
You will lead on the strategic development of Trust-wide services in your specialist area, working with other strategic and clinical leads. Alongside this, you will lead and actively participate in education programmes designed to support other clinical staff in skills relating to the speciality.
An element of the role involves providing peer support to clinical staff working with patients from the direct caseload or those involved in the management of patients demonstrating conditions relating to the speciality. You will also be responsible for insuring that relevant legal and regulatory frameworks are acknowledged through local governance procedures. This involves being a competent research evidence consumer & to contribute to the establishment of protocols and guidelines for the development of the service. In line with this, you will also undertake and support research in the speciality.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
• Rated ‘Good’ with 'Outstanding’ features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients’ homes and in our community hospitals
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
• Supportive team environments
• Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Clinical Services Manager, Kate Woods, 07747 717 175, kate.woods1@nhs.net.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024