Main area: Admission Avoidance
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Work)
Job ref: 364-A-8606
Employer: Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Rochford Hospital
Town: Rochford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/01/2025 08:00
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk.
* We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
* We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
Job overview
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 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
The 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 stabilise 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership and support the UCRT team.
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.
Work in partnership with GPs and primary healthcare professionals to ascertain diagnosis, plan care and treatment.
Work towards promoting admission avoidance from primary care to the acute Trust.
To practice as a Non-Medical Prescriber and ensure own professional registration is maintained.
On a daily basis, support the Case Managers and Clinical Manager to prioritise the caseload and delegate appropriate work to other team members, providing teaching and clinical supervision when required.
Deputise to Case Manager when required.
Act as UCRT Coordinator and SPA triage nurse on a rotational basis, undertaking triage of referrals from GPs, Paramedics and Community Health Teams.
Support collaboration of UCRT services across Mid and South Essex, which may include working across boundaries.
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.
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.
To work collaboratively with the UCRT Occupational Therapists to support the delivery of holistic care and admission avoidance interventions.
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.
Support the Clinical Manager to organise staff rotas and adjust as necessary to ensure adequate cover for the service.
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 patient’s needs using evidence-based practice.
Provide advice and support to home carers in the community on the UCRT caseload.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Graduate Diploma or degree nursing
* Assessment and Consultation
* Non-medical prescribing
Experience
* Acute and or community experience
* Evidence of Supporting unwell patients
#J-18808-Ljbffr