We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Nurses, Allied Health Practitioners and Paramedic Practitioners to join our highly regarded Urgent Community Response Service, based at Woking Community Hospital. We provide 24-hour responsive NHS community services to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.
Working as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will undertake assessments, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of patients who may require management and/or rehabilitation interventions in their own environment to prevent acute hospital admissions and to support complex hospital discharges.
Although expected to work autonomously, you will not be alone. The team currently includes Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Nurses, paramedics, and Rehabilitation Assistants, and we work closely with colleagues from primary care, locality health hubs, adult social care, and other community services. We advocate generic working across the team and share many of the core competencies and skills.
The qualities we are looking for in successful applicants are:
* Excellent communication and time management skills.
* Flexible approach to work with the ability to work across a seven-day service.
* Ability to work both independently and as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.
* Willingness to undertake ongoing professional development and a commitment to providing high quality, safe, and effective care that meets the needs of patients.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with the UCR Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) & Clinical Leads for frailty, Community Nursing, Frailty GPs, Adult Social Care, community services, and the third sector to provide fast reactive services for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment and care planning to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions: Falls; Decompensation of Frailty; Reduced Function/Decondition/reduced mobility; Urgent equipment provision; Confusion / Delirium; Palliative / EOL crisis support; Urgent Catheter Care; Urgent support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer breakdown.
To provide advanced assessment and care planning, including history taking and physical assessment for patients with frailty.
To provide strong holistic assessment and treatment planning of patients with frailty, without direct supervision.
To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically, primary care and community teams and Social Care professionals, leading and facilitating a patient or client focused, coordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admission to hospital.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey's largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation; if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for, and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job responsibilities
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team aspire to provide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner, or Paramedic. There is the flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights, and to do internal rotation, and you are able to work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty whilst working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.
The teams are commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include urgent case management and hospital admission avoidance, where the focus of the role is to lead the identification and clinical assessment of patients who will benefit from advanced complex hospital discharge care, or urgent responsive admission avoidance using the Virtual Ward if required, with care provided in their own home by the multidisciplinary team.
Please see attached Job description for further details.
Person Specification
Skills
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Broad range of enhanced clinical skills
* Ability to advocate patient issues
* Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
* Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise
* Ability to understand and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and apply to practice.
* Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management
* Computer literate including emails and spreadsheets.
* Effective written and verbal communication skills
Experience
* A minimum of two years post-registration experience
* Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people
* Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting
* Involved in the implementation and management of change
* Evidence of innovative practice
* Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit/research relating to clinical practice
* Participates in regular clinical supervision
* Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner or BSc/Diploma leading to inclusion on the Health and Care Professions Council Register as an Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Paramedic
* Post-registration qualification or University Degree
* Teaching and assessing qualification Mentorship or equivalent mentorship qualification PETALS
* Masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking ongoing personal development and training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£39,205 to £47,084 a year includes 5% HCAS.
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