Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Community Hospital In Reach Matron to be part of the BHFT West Community Hospital In Reach service. The role will be based in RBH working with the acute discharge team you will be expected to carry out face to face assessment within the acute as well as work with the hospital MDTs, including physicians, dietitians, and specialist nurses, to offer a joined up, integrated service. This is a WTE Band 7 Permanent Post. You will join a small team of clinicians the team will be based in RBH.
Post holder will be based in RBH. Shift Pattern as below: Monday-Friday 0800-1800 on Site at RBH. Saturday-Sunday 0800-1600 off Site
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with the In Reach Team, Community Hospital Beds, Emergency Departments, Frailty Team and the Wards to reduce the stay of necessary hospital admissions by facilitating safe discharges of individuals living within West Berkshire.
The post holder will work autonomously to determine the needs of the patient, referring them to appropriate services, including Primary care, Community services, social services, Mental Health and Voluntary services, ensuring that a support network is in place on discharge.
The post holder will work closely with the Hospital Based Teams using knowledge of the local health, social care and voluntary landscape and will identify suitable patients for the cluster meetings. This role includes identifying patients with developing complex health or social care needs. This could act as a trigger for patients that are reaching a tipping point on the frail elderly pathway enabling more co-ordinated care to be put in place to prevent them from becoming higher users of unscheduled services in the future. The post holder will work within an integrated team with patients with multiple complex long term conditions, with responsibility for ensuring all health and social care needs are met to improve health outcomes, functional status and quality of life, including referring patients appropriately to relevant professionals within the health, social and voluntary environment.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
1. Caring for and about you is our top priority
2. Committed to providing good quality, safe services
3. Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
4. Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
5. 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
6. Generous NHS pension scheme
7. Excellent learning and career development opportunities
8. ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
9. Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
10. Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
11. Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
12. Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
13. Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
14. Post-graduate Diploma or equivalent - ( Specialist Practitioner qualification (RDN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing or post-registration qualification)
15. RGN with 1st Level degree
16. Team leadership
17. 5 Years post registration experience in the acute/community and preferable at minimum of 2 years as Band 6
18. Management qualification
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
19. RGN
20. 1st Level degree
21. Post-graduate Diploma or equivalent - ( Specialist Practitioner qualification (RDN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing) or post-registration qualification)
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
22. Evidence of continual professional development
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
23. 5 Years post registration experience
24. Experience of working in a variety of settings (hospital, primary and community)
25. Operational experience of supporting people with long term conditions
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
26. Case Management skills, or willingness to develop
27. Clinical examination skills, physical examination and assessment skills (top to toe assessment), detailed medical history skills, biometric monitoring and evaluation skills, or willingness to develop
28. Health coaching skills, or willingness to develop
29. Excellent organisational skills
30. Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate workload
31. Excellent leadership skills
32. Excellent problem solving skills to identify and resolve clinical and whole system issues
33. Ability to interpret and analyse complex data from numerous sources to inform decisions
34. Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
35. Ability to effectively delegate activities to appropriate staff
36. Ability to effectively negotiate on patient management
37. Ability to engage and develop partnership working with all those involved in the management of long-term conditions
38. Ability to work as a member of a team
39. Ability to make clinical and administrative decisions
40. Ability to be goal and outcome focused when faced with opposition or when working under conditions of pressure
41. Ability to use IM&T support systems
42. Ability to translate best practice evidence and national policy into practice
43. Knowledge of national service frameworks and the national long-term conditions policy
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
44. Ability to travel to multiple sites
45. Has daily access to a vehicle
Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.
Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.
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Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.
Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.
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