Job summary
The Urgent community response team provide urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. You will work as an integral member of this agile and responsive multi-disciplinary team to:
ü undertake assessments, clinical diagnosisand treatment of patients including telephone triage, multi-factorial fallsassessments, and patients who may require crisis management and/orrehabilitation interventions to prevent acute hospital admissions and tosupport complex hospital discharges.
ü provide afast reactive service for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapiddelivery of treatment and care planning to support acute hospital admissionavoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions.
Main duties of the job
As an autonomous practitioner you will undertake a complex and varied clinical workload and be an expert in rehabilitation within the home and other community settings as required.
You will clinically manage and supervise Nurses, senior community rehab assistants, and students and support other clinical colleagues in the team as required.
You will take a lead role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the service on a day-to-day basis, whilst working closely together with other internal and external stakeholders.
Please see attached Job Description for further details about the role.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level.CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The UrgentCommunity Response(UCR) Team aspires toprovide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. There isthe flexibility within the multidisciplinaryteam to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation and youare able to work autonomously, managingpatient assessments within the specialty whilst working as part of the largermultidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised directpatient care to patients across Northwest Surrey in conjunction with the widerIntegrated Care System.
The teams arecommissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims includeurgent case management and hospital admission avoidance, where the focus of therole is to lead the identification and clinical assessment of patients who willbenefit from advanced complex hospital discharge care, or urgent responsiveadmission avoidance using the VirtualWard if required, with care provided intheir own home by the multi-disciplinary team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. RN1 on the NMC register
2. BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
3. Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
4. Advanced Clinical Assessment
5. Teaching/Mentorship courses
Desirable
6. To have or be working towards a Masters degree.
7. Understanding of current and evolving community and primary care services.
8. Nurse prescriber/ willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential
9. Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within relevant service (eg. Rapid response/ UCR/ acute/emergency or urgent care) delivering effective patient focused care.
10. Experience of working autonomously assessing diagnosing and treating patients.
11. Proven evidence of advanced organisational/leadership skills and autonomous practice.
12. Experience of audit, research & evidence based care.
13. Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
Desirable
14. Community/primary care experience
15. Teaching and assessing