Job summary
The Discharge to Assess (D2A) team is part of our Manchester Community Response Service and Crisis Response team. The D2A team work seamlessly with the acute hospital provider to ensure people can be discharged in an appropriate and timely manner as soon as they are safe to leave the hospital.
Your clinical skillset will contribute to people being able to remain safely and supported in their own homes, whilst aiming to begin to achieve their optimum health and wellbeing and enable a return to as much independence as possible to improve quality of life.
The Discharge to Assess team is made up of a co-located group of community health and social care staff at various grades including community nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social care assessors, health care assistants, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.
The Discharge to Assess Pathway 1 service operates from 8am to 6pm, 365 days per year. Care calls will be provided by the Health Care Support Workers until 8pm with clinical oversight and supervision from the Crisis Response team clinicians. The Discharge to Assess team provide a bespoke package of assessments to identify current and short term needs for a period of up to 6 weeks post discharge.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a core member of the Discharge to Assess team, responsible for providing assessment and support to patients who have Pathway 1 care needs in the community; applying the 'closer to home' and 'home first' philosophy. This will be through the facilitation of timely and supported discharge from an acute bed to patient's own home. Including provision of assessments, interventions, safe care and treatment that meet a person's individual needs and aspirations to increase independence and improve quality of life.You will be expected to work collaboratively with the Discharge to Assess team and Trafford Community Response Services. As well as with Primary Health Care Teams and with Social and Voluntary sectors to ensure effective coordination and care navigation across the services.To work autonomously within your own professional competencies and guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.As a Band 7 practitioner working with this high level of autonomy, but within agreed guidelines, you will initiate history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis and the implementation of a range of care interventions for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.Provide leadership, education and support to other team members through promotion of innovative strategies to manage change and improve service delivery.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in nursing
- NMC Registration
- Experience at B6 level
- Evidence of relevant post registration training / CPD
- Evidence of implementing change
Desirable
- Accredited clinical
- NMP V300
- Community experience
- Experience in uregtn care delivery
Experience
Essential
- Broad experience at Band 6 working in community setting / Rapid Response / Intermediate care
- Experienced in providing clinical leadership and problem solving.
- Evidence and experience in providing clinical leadership and problem solving skills
- Experience of working within a team
- Experience of urgent assessments and developing and delivering care plans to meet these needs
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement in policy and practice changes arising from audit
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of complex medical, social and psychological needs of older adults.
- Able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of Clinical Governance and risk and its implications for the Service
- Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution.
Desirable
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to lead and motivate a team and implement change
- Highly specialist clinical skills
- Evidence of expert clinical practice
- Clinical reasoning skills / knowledge underpinning clinical skills specific to clinical area.
- Ability effectively manage / delegate others workload
- Excellent organisational and time
- Ability to work in unpredictable environment e,g, manage crisis and reorganise workload at short notice.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate initiative and?commitment to self-directed learning
- Innovative and able to make recommendations for service
- flexible attitude to change and new ways of working
- must have self confidence to challenge traditional practice and the persistence to address difficult enduring issues.
- To be motivated and demonstrate flexibility and reliability
Other
Essential
- Car driver / access to an appropriate vehicle on a daily basis and ability to transport equipment safely in vehicle.
- In general good health and evidence of a good attendance record
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in nursing
- NMC Registration
- Experience at B6 level
- Evidence of relevant post registration training / CPD
- Evidence of implementing change
Desirable
- Accredited clinical
- NMP V300
- Community experience
- Experience in uregtn care delivery
Experience
Essential
- Broad experience at Band 6 working in community setting / Rapid Response / Intermediate care
- Experienced in providing clinical leadership and problem solving.
- Evidence and experience in providing clinical leadership and problem solving skills
- Experience of working within a team
- Experience of urgent assessments and developing and delivering care plans to meet these needs
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement in policy and practice changes arising from audit
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of complex medical, social and psychological needs of older adults.
- Able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of Clinical Governance and risk and its implications for the Service
- Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution.
Desirable
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to lead and motivate a team and implement change
- Highly specialist clinical skills
- Evidence of expert clinical practice
- Clinical reasoning skills / knowledge underpinning clinical skills specific to clinical area.
- Ability effectively manage / delegate others workload
- Excellent organisational and time
- Ability to work in unpredictable environment e,g, manage crisis and reorganise workload at short notice.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to demonstrate initiative and?commitment to self-directed learning
- Innovative and able to make recommendations for service
- flexible attitude to change and new ways of working
- must have self confidence to challenge traditional practice and the persistence to address difficult enduring issues.
- To be motivated and demonstrate flexibility and reliability
Other
Essential
- Car driver / access to an appropriate vehicle on a daily basis and ability to transport equipment safely in vehicle.
- In general good health and evidence of a good attendance record
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).
