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 work in the Urgent community response team and Virtual Wards to assist in the prevention of inappropriate hospital admissions and the facilitation of hospital discharge in line with the overall objectives of the service.
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.
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.
To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.
To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better
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.
Main duties of the job
* Carry out comprehensive holistic assessments of the care needs of people referred to the service seeking support and advice from senior colleagues in situations that are outside the post holder's sphere of competence.
* With support where necessary from senior colleagues, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care designed to maintain the patient in his / her own home.
* In situations where the patient cannot be maintained safely at home facilitate admission to the most appropriate setting.
* Demonstrate, teach and supervise basic nursing care that families can safely provide between visits.
* In conjunction with therapists, measure for and order special adaptations and equipment indicated by the assessment and plan of care.
* Carry out a range of nursing interventions, to include cannulation and IV drug
administration, working within the scope of professional practice
* Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with colleagues and stakeholders, utilising electronic methods of communication within the remit of the Data Protection Act ensuring clinical information is conveyed within a timeframe that ensures patient safety.
* Ensure safe and effective clinical practice.
* Enhance patient experience.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*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
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- *Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
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- *Minimal 4 years post registration experience
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- *Evidence of continuing professional development
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- *Mentorship qualification
Desirable
- *Health assessment course
- *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
- *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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Relevant clinical qualification with current registration (eg RGN
- *
- *Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
- *
- *Minimal 4 years post registration experience
- *
- *Evidence of continuing professional development
- *
- *Mentorship qualification
Desirable
- *Health assessment course
- *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
- *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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
