Job summary
6 month Secondment - commencing November 2024
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
For further information please contact Lesley Roberts 0300 123 0983 or L
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job description
Job 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
Essential
1. Educated to degree level.
2. Evidence of higher level study at Masters Level; Alternatively working knowledge and experience at an equivalent level1
3. Current HCPC Registration
4. Current NMC Registration first level Nurse essential
5. Physical Health Assessment Qualification or equivilant
6. Leadership and Management Qualification
7. Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
8. Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments.
9. Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas
10. Experience and/or qualifications in the specific area Organisational Development
11. Safeguarding level 1-3 for Adults
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential
12. Demonstrates negotiating, persuasive, motivational, reassurance skills; gives formal presentations
13. Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge of working in an Acute Trust or Community Service, underpinned by theory and experience
14. 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
15. Experience of working across boundaries to develop networks with key stakeholders
16. Experience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices
17. Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
18. Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
19. Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals
20. Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
21. Ability to work as part of the wider team
22. 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
23. Experience of facilitating staff engagement interventions with groups of staff or teams
24. Good influencing and networking skills
25. Excellent written and communication skills
26. Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
27. Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
28. Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
29. Ability to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
30. Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
31. Ability to understand, interpret and critically
32. Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
Desirable
33. Experience of managing budgets and approval of expenditure
34. Broad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi system environment
35. Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff.
Personal Qualities
Essential
36. Positive mindset in respect of Supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
37. Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self -regulation
38. Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
39. Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
40. Works with patients and people at the fore -operates to a customer service ethos
41. Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
42. Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
43. There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating
44. Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
45. Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites