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Unplanned Service – Advanced Practitioner (Band-8a)
Are you an Advanced Practitioner looking for an opportunity to work within a dynamic community team? The role includes providing enhanced nursing, and social and clinical assessment of housebound patients with escalating complex needs, within a robust MDT structure.
BDCT covers Bradford and Airedale localities. The service runs seven-days-a-week, between the hours of 08.00 – 18.00. The primary function of the role is to maximise the patient’s health, clinically assess and treat patients in defined groups thereby reducing unnecessary admissions to acute services, facilitating the delivery of effective, co-ordinated, and timely high-quality care to patients.
Unplanned services are committed to supporting your continued professional development, and we will support you in your ongoing career aspirations. If this is you, we’d love to hear from you.
Closing Date- 23rd March 2025
As a member of the community unplanned team working as an advanced practitioner (AP) in the community setting, work collaboratively in providing flexible, dynamic and innovative care, responsive to unplanned health needs, focusing on those service users who present with complex needs, co-morbidities and long-term conditions. To proactively manage a time limited episode of care of very high intensity users of services, for treatment and onward referral to enable the patient to maintain independence, avoid unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge in collaboration with Virtual ward pathways. To seek and develop innovative and pioneering ways of working, challenging decisions made by health care professionals. To establish close working relationships with staff in primary, secondary, intermediate care, social care and voluntary organisations.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
* We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
* We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs.
* We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500.
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
* Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Blackburn Job title: Operational Manager for Unplanned Care Email address: katie.blackburn2@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07919584698.
Clare Newhouse, Operational Manager for Unplanned Care Tel: 07710919314 clare.newhouse@bdct.nhs.uk
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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