Job summary
Extended Primary care team is a small team, delivering compassionate holistic care for patients. Working in the community you will be providing care to housebound patients with complex care needs, enabling patients to receive the care they need in their own home.
As one of the team, you will ensure that you offer responsive, evidence based and recovery focused care to the patients, while building strong therapeutic relationships to support patients to move forward in their recovery.
This is a role where you can really make a difference working to reduce the amount of time our patients need to spend in hospital and helping them to work towards their recovery and back into the community. As part of the role, the candidate will take part in meeting the competencies by taking part in training and a comprehensive induction programme.
The successful post holder will need excellent communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with staff, service users and other members of the wider multi-disciplinary team. The ability to prioritise changing work demands is essential.
We are looking to appoint highly motivated, enthusiastic, flexible, resourceful and resilient individuals who are committed to providing support and assistance to patients in their recovery.
Main duties of the job
*To work collaboratively with patients in assessing, planning and implementing and evaluate the nursing and recovery needs of patients under your care.
*To work proactively in accordance with the principles of social inclusion, promoting independence and recovery.
*To respond to Urgent Community Response calls to help avoid hospital admissions and wrap around care to look after service users in their own homes.
*To supervise mentor and teach unqualified staff including students
* To work as duty clinician on your allocated day, being the point of contact for patients and to triage referrals
About us
Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?
Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?
We want to meet you!
Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.
Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.
Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:
- Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
- We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
- We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.
Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Extended Primary Care Team within Fareham & Gosport and South East Hampshire aspires to provide a responsive, safe effective caring service. The team is commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include providing a local point of access, proactive case management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users. The Senior Care Planner will work within the Extended Primary Care Team to deliver a joined up approach across a specific locality, to deliver excellence in care and engages with all practices and wide stakeholders in the locality.
The Senior Care Planner, in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically GP's, Practice Nurses and Social Care professionals, will support and facilitate a patient or client focussed, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.
* Working under the supervising Lead Care Planner as a lead clinical practitioner, the post holder will have responsibility for proactively monitoring, assessing and managing patients within the Extended Primary Care Team
* Recognising the early symptoms of disease exacerbation, acute illness and injuries, social and familial factors and based on an understanding of long term conditions, frail older people and current evidence and practice standards the post holder will support appropriate care provided in the right place at the right time.
* The post holder will contribute to case management and health advice to support self-management whilst in the community and access specialist advice when required to help people live with complex co-morbidities, including dementia and frailty.
* Reporting to the Lead Care Planner, the post holder will support developing and implementing service provision within the Extended Primary Care Team and case management across Fareham & Gosport and South East Hampshire locality.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Extended Primary Care Team within Fareham & Gosport and South East Hampshire aspires to provide a responsive, safe effective caring service. The team is commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include providing a local point of access, proactive case management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users. The Senior Care Planner will work within the Extended Primary Care Team to deliver a joined up approach across a specific locality, to deliver excellence in care and engages with all practices and wide stakeholders in the locality.
The Senior Care Planner, in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically GP's, Practice Nurses and Social Care professionals, will support and facilitate a patient or client focussed, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.
* Working under the supervising Lead Care Planner as a lead clinical practitioner, the post holder will have responsibility for proactively monitoring, assessing and managing patients within the Extended Primary Care Team
* Recognising the early symptoms of disease exacerbation, acute illness and injuries, social and familial factors and based on an understanding of long term conditions, frail older people and current evidence and practice standards the post holder will support appropriate care provided in the right place at the right time.
* The post holder will contribute to case management and health advice to support self-management whilst in the community and access specialist advice when required to help people live with complex co-morbidities, including dementia and frailty.
* Reporting to the Lead Care Planner, the post holder will support developing and implementing service provision within the Extended Primary Care Team and case management across Fareham & Gosport and South East Hampshire locality.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Care Professional Qualification
- * Post Graduate study in health related studies relevant to long term condition management or equivalent experience.
- * Full UK Driving Licence and use of vehicle for work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Health Care Professional Qualification
- * Post Graduate study in health related studies relevant to long term condition management or equivalent experience.
- * Full UK Driving Licence and use of vehicle for work
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
