Employer: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Acute Care at Home
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/02/2025 23:59
Band 8a
Job Overview
Our General Acute Medicine and Frailty Virtual Ward is a new and innovative service that has an agreed admission criteria and works in partnership with supporting care services to deliver acute care in the patient’s own home. The aim of a virtual ward is to reduce length of acute hospital stay and/or avoid hospital admission; this leads to quicker recovery and reduces disruption to patients and their carers’ lives. This means we can proactively manage people living with frailty at home, and for those that have a sub-acute episode, we can improve a patient’s experience and outcomes. In addition, this means we have more space in our hospitals for acutely unwell patients and reduces the pressure on urgent care.
We have an exciting opportunity to support our Supported Early Discharge Pathways from the Acute Trust into Virtual Wards, working as a Senior Liaison Practitioner, joining our current team within Royal Stoke & County Hospital.
Main Duties of the Job
This 6-month secondment is designed to support the safe transfer of care from Acute Hospital wards, portals, and departments into a Virtual Ward. Working closely with the Virtual Ward Matrons to deliver Case Management, Bed Management, and Acuity Management of the patients suitable for Supported Early Discharge, predominantly working across both Royal Stoke and County Hospital sites.
The role is to act as the Senior Advanced Liaison Practitioner between the Acute Trust and Virtual Wards, in a “pull” function, to ensure the correct utilisation of Virtual Ward beds.
Identifying suitable patients who may need ongoing Virtual care within their own homes, reviewing clinical diagnostics and decision making to ensure the safe transfer of care. Ensuring Medical Management plans are appropriate and in place for discharge.
A vital aspect of this role will be to engage with, educate, and empower hospital staff to identify suitable patients who meet the criteria for Virtual Ward care.
Applicants will need the approval of their managers to be released from November 2024 into this post.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
* Educated to degree level.
* Evidence of higher level study at Masters Level; Alternatively working knowledge and experience at an equivalent level.
* Current HCPC Registration.
* Physical Health Assessment Qualification or equivalent.
* Leadership and Management Qualification.
* Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.
* Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments.
* Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas.
* Experience and/or qualifications in the specific area of Organisational Development.
* Safeguarding level 1-3 for Adults.
Knowledge, Skills, Training, and Experience
* Demonstrates negotiating, persuasive, motivational, and reassurance skills; gives formal presentations.
* Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge of working in an Acute Trust or Community Service, underpinned by theory and experience.
* Experience of providing highly specialised advice concerning care; being accountable for direct delivery of sub-division of a clinical, clinical technical, or social care service.
* Experience of working across boundaries to develop networks with key stakeholders.
* Experience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices.
* Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need.
* Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions.
* Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals.
* Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service.
* Ability to work as part of the wider team.
* The ability to integrate theory and practice through the effective development and delivery of learning programmes and events which take full account of relevant learning methodologies, principles, and paradigms.
* Experience of facilitating staff engagement interventions with groups of staff or teams.
* Good influencing and networking skills.
* Excellent written and communication skills.
* Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
* Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple.
* Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation.
* Ability to develop medium and long-term plans to meet service needs and ensure sustainability.
* Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
* Ability to understand, interpret, and critically analyse data and information.
* Experience of managing budgets and approval of expenditure.
* Broad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi-system environment.
* Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff.
Personal Qualities
* Positive mindset in respect of Supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
* Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including a high degree of self-awareness and self-regulation.
* Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agreed objectives.
* Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach.
* Works with patients and people at the fore – operates to a customer service ethos.
* Acts to support and enable effective teamwork.
* Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality.
* There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating.
* Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances.
* Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites.
Important Information About Your Application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith, or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
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At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles; on this occasion, we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!
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If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining on your visa at the time of application to ensure sufficient time for the recruitment and training process associated with the role. The requirement of at least six months remaining on your visa does not apply to a Skilled Worker Visa, as a new Skilled Worker Visa would be required for a new role.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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