Job summary
Supporting Operational Pathway Lead for Home First & Urgent Community Response Service managerial activities
To work collaboratively within the specialist multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
To work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patient's own home.
To bring a holistic therapeutic approach to the multi-disciplinary team. Concentrating specifically on admission avoidance strategies and interventions.
To have a role in the responsibility for the management of patients care pathway through the CIS services
To be responsible for a designated caseload of patients, where you will implement and evaluate treatment plans, and coordinate interventions within Home First & Urgent Community Response.
As a registered Allied Health Care Professional, you will assist in the organisation, development, and delivery of the Home First & Urgent Community Response service
To liaise with health, and adult social care, working in partnership with primary and secondary care, social prescribers, and other external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high-quality service, and facilitate effective discharge from the Home First Service.
To provide a specialist service to patients in their own home/usual residence
Main duties of the job
- Division of duties between managerial and clinical activities, supporting the Home First & Urgent Community response Operational Pathway Lead in managing the service facilitating efficiency, effective and safe activity of Home First service activity.
- Support Operational Pathway Lead with service management activities: appraisal and supervision of B6 staff, approving annual leave, reporting on sickness using Health Roster.
- Promote a holistic, supportive, and patient centered service that facilitates an intervention approach to promote change, acceptance and promotes self-management aiming to optimises functional improvement
- Work with Home First: supporting with triage, patient care pathway, and sharing knowledge related to the discharge to assess and admission avoidance strategies
- Work with patients, carers and families, and other statutory health related services
- Work autonomously and within the MDT team delivering individualised treatment interventions and management programmes
- Be flexible in the approach to delivering treatment and advice, have skills to deliver a variety of treatment interventions
- Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
- To have expert knowledge and understanding of long-term conditions and symptoms, and prognosis
About us
Values:
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all staff to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, carers, and also other staff members.
As a member of the clinical team, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that
commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting Operational Pathway Lead for Home First & Urgent Community Response Service managerial activities
To work collaboratively within the specialist multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
To work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patients own home.
To bring a holistic therapeutic approach to the multi-disciplinary team. Concentrating specifically on admission avoidance strategies and interventions.
To have a role in the responsibility for the management of patients care pathway through the CIS services
To be responsible for a designated caseload of patients, where you will implement and evaluate treatment plans, and coordinate interventions within Home First & Urgent Community Response.
As a registered Allied Health Care Professional, you will assist in the organisation, development, and delivery of the Home First & Urgent Community Response service
To liaise with health, and adult social care, working in partnership with primary and secondary care, social prescribers, and other external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high-quality service, and facilitate effective discharge from the Home First Service.
To provide a specialist service to patients in their own home/usual residence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting Operational Pathway Lead for Home First & Urgent Community Response Service managerial activities
To work collaboratively within the specialist multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
To work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patients own home.
To bring a holistic therapeutic approach to the multi-disciplinary team. Concentrating specifically on admission avoidance strategies and interventions.
To have a role in the responsibility for the management of patients care pathway through the CIS services
To be responsible for a designated caseload of patients, where you will implement and evaluate treatment plans, and coordinate interventions within Home First & Urgent Community Response.
As a registered Allied Health Care Professional, you will assist in the organisation, development, and delivery of the Home First & Urgent Community Response service
To liaise with health, and adult social care, working in partnership with primary and secondary care, social prescribers, and other external agencies to ensure the delivery of a high-quality service, and facilitate effective discharge from the Home First Service.
To provide a specialist service to patients in their own home/usual residence
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with current registration with relevant professional body
- Evidence of recent CPD
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience.
- Supervisory experiences
- Proven experience of working as an independent practitioner
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Extensive clinical experience
Desirable
- Experience of leading, planning and completing audit / research.
- Experience of working with discharge to assess principles
- Additional Leadership training and/or experience
Knowledge Advanced clinical skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate care which reflects evidence-based
- Leadership skills with ability to engage and deliver change through negotiation and partnership working
- Ability to manage high pressured situations
Desirable
- Management skills with team building abilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with current registration with relevant professional body
- Evidence of recent CPD
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience.
- Supervisory experiences
- Proven experience of working as an independent practitioner
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Extensive clinical experience
Desirable
- Experience of leading, planning and completing audit / research.
- Experience of working with discharge to assess principles
- Additional Leadership training and/or experience
Knowledge Advanced clinical skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate care which reflects evidence-based
- Leadership skills with ability to engage and deliver change through negotiation and partnership working
- Ability to manage high pressured situations
Desirable
- Management skills with team building abilities
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).
