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Health Facilitation Nurse
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a creative and innovative person who possesses excellent communication skills to join the city wide Health Facilitation Team. You will be based in the South part of a city-wide team that aims to improve access to mainstream primary and acute services. You will promote health-enhancing activities to improve the outcomes for people with learning disabilities within the framework of level one and level two Health Facilitation.
You will work within the framework of a multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist guidance to actively promote the delivery of health facilitation.
Main duties of the job
1. Contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care pathways for people with learning disabilities.
2. Maintain effective links with primary health care partners to support interventions to reduce health inequalities and support the implementation of health screening and health action plans.
3. Collaborate between primary and secondary services to adults with learning disabilities when accessing services.
4. Provide support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities and their carers within the framework of health facilitation (level one and two) and the framework of Transition.
5. Support a caseload under the supervision of the Specialist Nurse - Health Facilitation.
6. Ensure effective communication between General Practitioners, Consultants, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team and coordinate the assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care interventions for individuals.
7. Liaise with all appropriate professionals, carers, and Service Users regarding pre and post-admission support to Primary Care and Acute services, coordinating the assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care interventions for individuals with learning disabilities requiring palliative care services.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, families, as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre, and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust that is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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Job description
There is a legal requirement that from 16th November anyone entering care homes must have had both Covid vaccinations. This post requires employees to undertake roles in care home settings; therefore, recruitment to this post is subject to the condition that appointed candidates are double vaccinated prior to commencing in post.
Car driver essential requiring a full driving license and access to a vehicle.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
* RNLD/RNMH
* Post qualification training.
* Mentoring or Assessing Qualification or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
* Post registration experience.
* Working within multidisciplinary teams.
Skills/knowledge
Essential
* Assessment process.
* Awareness of legislation.
* Level 1 and level 2 Health facilitation.
Personal qualities
Desirable
* Confident and effective communication skills.
Other job requirements
Essential
* Car driver essential with full license and access to a vehicle.
* Flexible working.
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
The Greenfields
Birmingham
B30 3QY
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