Band 7 Clinical Practitioner – Urgent Community Response Team
The Clinical Practitioner in Urgent Community Response will act as a generalist ‘expert’ and exercise their clinical expertise in the long-term conditions (LTC’s) including frailty, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care to deliver the Urgent Community Response Model.
Main duties of the job
1. Work closely with wider multi-disciplinary workforce in primary, community and secondary care, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care in the right setting.
2. Work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations and initiating appropriate holistic, best evidenced based treatment with the development of a personalised clinical management plan, including independent prescribing.
3. Work in partnership with care home providers, managers, primary care, patients and the wider health and social care team to maintain high quality care, prevent avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate early hospital discharge.
4. Use a risk stratification tool to identify patients who are vulnerable to hospital admission and clinical harm.
5. Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership.
6. Work shifts required between the hours 08:00 to 22:00hrs.
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