Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for several B6 practitioners to work within the newly formed and innovative Hospital and care at home service on the Oldham site. The post holder will work within the Hospital and care at home team alongside the multi-disciplinary team to provide and maintain a high level of service.
The current pathways are related to respiratory, frailty, and acute medicine infection pathways, with cardiology pathways in development therefore you should have experience within one of these specialties.
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the service with a range of skills and clinical expertise and will consider applicants from any of the following backgrounds, Clinical Pharmacy, Registered nurses, and Allied health professionals. You need to be flexible, hardworking, have excellent communication skills and appreciate the need for professional development within your practice to ensure we establish a responsive and effective team.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for triaging, onboarding, monitoring, and escalating patients via the MDT on H&C@H pathways.You will need to be enthusiastic, motivated and an appropriately experienced practitioner. You will need to be a registered health care professional who can demonstrate your commitment, enthusiasm, and drive to develop your own clinical, managerial and team working skills within the service.
You must be able to communicate effectively at all levels, work autonomously and be able to demonstrate effective teamwork. You will provide high quality care in an appropriate and timely manner which is responsive to patients need whilst adhering to recognised guidelines.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT).
Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within a group arrangement of hospitals, community, and healthcare services. Together they manage and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their hospital and community services, ensuring the safe delivery of high-quality care at scale. Oldham Care Organisation is responsible for delivering healthcare services at the Royal Oldham Hospital and within thecommunity.
We have four core values which are a focus for how our staff and volunteers work with each other to provide care for our patients. We think of our values as a set of guiding principles to refer to when making decisions and interacting with people and they help us to work together to continuously improve the organisation and ourselves. These core values form part of the Organisations Performance Framework which regularly reviews how staff are performing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within the Hospital and care at home(H&C@H) team alongside the multi-disciplinary team to provide and maintain a high level of service to service users accessing NHS services.
- The post holder will take part in co-coordinating referrals, triage, initial assessments, onward referrals, and input into the MDT for patients accepted onto the H&C@H virtual ward
- The post holder will be responsible for determining appropriate patients are onboarded onto the H&C@H virtual ward
- The post holder will deliver, implement, monitor, and escalate patients on the H&C@H virtual ward.
- They will ensure appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies and specialist teams via the MDT as required.
The post Holder will ensure compliance with Professional policies, National and local guidelines and Trust policies, procedures, and protocols.
Key Roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for prioritising and planning own workload on a day-to-day basis with some direction.
- To use advanced knowledge and skills in order to manage patients care as an autonomous practitioner; without direct supervision, drawing on advanced theoretical and practical experience.
- Negotiate, agree expectations, and set appropriate realistic and individual goals in partnership with the patient, carer and colleagues
- Ensure that assessments, programmes of care, and evaluations related to patients being accepted and onboarded onto the H&C&H pathways comply with the Trusts agreed clinical standards.
- Ensure provision of holistic and rapid assessment of patients referred in a timely manner to support early discharge from the acute hospital provision.
- Provide home visits and deliver programmes of care according to clinical need within agreed protocols after escalation and discussion at MDT meeting
- Facilitate safe and timely discharge from the service including generation of a discharge summary to GPs.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
If you are an International Nurse without a current NMC PIN, please do not apply for this role. To find out more about the current international nursing opportunities available to you here at the NCA, please contactInternationalNursing.OSCE@nca.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within the Hospital and care at home(H&C@H) team alongside the multi-disciplinary team to provide and maintain a high level of service to service users accessing NHS services.
- The post holder will take part in co-coordinating referrals, triage, initial assessments, onward referrals, and input into the MDT for patients accepted onto the H&C@H virtual ward
- The post holder will be responsible for determining appropriate patients are onboarded onto the H&C@H virtual ward
- The post holder will deliver, implement, monitor, and escalate patients on the H&C@H virtual ward.
- They will ensure appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies and specialist teams via the MDT as required.
The post Holder will ensure compliance with Professional policies, National and local guidelines and Trust policies, procedures, and protocols.
Key Roles and responsibilities:
- Responsible for prioritising and planning own workload on a day-to-day basis with some direction.
- To use advanced knowledge and skills in order to manage patients care as an autonomous practitioner; without direct supervision, drawing on advanced theoretical and practical experience.
- Negotiate, agree expectations, and set appropriate realistic and individual goals in partnership with the patient, carer and colleagues
- Ensure that assessments, programmes of care, and evaluations related to patients being accepted and onboarded onto the H&C&H pathways comply with the Trusts agreed clinical standards.
- Ensure provision of holistic and rapid assessment of patients referred in a timely manner to support early discharge from the acute hospital provision.
- Provide home visits and deliver programmes of care according to clinical need within agreed protocols after escalation and discussion at MDT meeting
- Facilitate safe and timely discharge from the service including generation of a discharge summary to GPs.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
If you are an International Nurse without a current NMC PIN, please do not apply for this role. To find out more about the current international nursing opportunities available to you here at the NCA, please contactInternationalNursing.OSCE@nca.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Registeration
Essential
- NMC, AHP or equivalent registration
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma level education in profession
- Evidence of continued CPD
Desirable
- Evidence of mentorship and teaching
- Evidence of post grad study
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Evidence based clinical knowledge
- Substantial post reg experience - Minimum of 3 years
- IT Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective team member
- Experience of clinical sytsems
- Clinical experience in specialty
Desirable
- Ability to use reflective practice to improve
- Experinec of Audit
- Clinical experience in community
Person Specification
Registeration
Essential
- NMC, AHP or equivalent registration
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma level education in profession
- Evidence of continued CPD
Desirable
- Evidence of mentorship and teaching
- Evidence of post grad study
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Evidence based clinical knowledge
- Substantial post reg experience - Minimum of 3 years
- IT Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective team member
- Experience of clinical sytsems
- Clinical experience in specialty
Desirable
- Ability to use reflective practice to improve
- Experinec of Audit
- Clinical experience in community
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).