An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Team Leader position within the Urgent Community Response Team, South East Essex. The successful applicant will be working to prevent acutely unwell patients from attending hospital by supporting them in their own home. Experience in supporting unwell patients is desirable; in return, you will gain all necessary training, such as assessment skills.
Main duties of the job
UCRT South East Essex is a community admission avoidance team available 7 days a week that will help patients stay at home when they are feeling unwell rather than be transferred to hospital.
The UCRT SEE team provides specialist nurse and occupational therapy led care in patients' own homes. They visit patients within two hours of receiving a referral from a healthcare professional to stabilize their immediate health needs and plan ongoing care and treatment as appropriate.
The Band 6 Team Leader will work as an autonomous practitioner within the UCRT SEE Team supporting the delivery of crisis care and support in patients' own homes.
About us
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn, and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including:
1. Season Ticket Loans
2. NHS discounts for staff
3. Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
4. Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
5. The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
6. Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
7. Day One Flexible Employer
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To provide clinical leadership and support the UCRT team.
2. Work autonomously on a daily basis to provide a wide range of healthcare options to a caseload of patients on the UCRT caseload. Provision of a high-quality nursing service to individuals, families, and groups in conjunction with other agencies, across South East Essex.
3. Work in partnership with GPs and primary healthcare professionals to ascertain diagnosis, plan care, and treatment.
4. Work towards promoting admission avoidance from primary care to the acute Trust.
5. To practice as a Non-Medical Prescriber and ensure own professional registration is maintained.
6. On a daily basis, support the Case Managers and Clinical Manager to prioritize the caseload and delegate appropriate work to other team members, providing teaching and clinical supervision when required.
7. Deputise to Case Manager when required.
8. Act as UCRT Coordinator and SPA triage nurse on a rotational basis, undertaking triage of referrals from GPs, Paramedics, and Community Health Teams.
9. Support collaboration of UCRT services across Mid and South Essex, which may include working across boundaries.
10. Responsibility for assessing, planning, and providing care to a client group with acute and complex health care needs to ensure the highest standard of care is given which complies with current clinical guidelines and legislation.
11. Through holistic assessment, instigate and follow up investigations to support safe care within the home setting. Where safe care is not able to be sustained, then arrange appropriate transfer to the acute Trust, ensuring a comprehensive handover of care is undertaken.
12. To work collaboratively with the UCRT Occupational Therapists to support the delivery of holistic care and admission avoidance interventions.
13. Liaison and coordination of services, working collaboratively with other agencies both voluntary and statutory to provide a seamless service to patients and their carers, being aware of local and national health policies.
14. Support the Clinical Manager to organize staff rotas and adjust as necessary to ensure adequate cover for the service.
15. To provide specialist, higher-level knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care of the requirements of the practice/geographical population using a variety of resources and to meet patients' needs using evidence-based practice.
16. Provide advice and support to home carers in the community on the UCRT caseload.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Graduate Diploma or degree nursing
Desirable
* Assessment and Consultation
* Non-medical prescribing
Experience
Essential
* Acute and or community experience
Desirable
* Evidence of Supporting unwell patients
Employer details
Employer name
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Rochford Hospital
Union Lane
Rochford
SS4 1RB
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