Main area ACS Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: Involves shift working Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend working) Job ref 820-7074021-COM
Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Norman Power Centre Town Birmingham Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/04/2025 23:59
Band 7 Clinical Practitioner – Urgent Community Response Team
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
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.
Working for our organisation
1. 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.
2. 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 admissions hospital admissions and facilitate early hospital discharge.
3. Use a risk stratification tool to identify patients who are vulnerable to hospital admission and clinical harm.
4. Work shifts required between the hours 08:00 to 22:00hrs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Be highly visible in the clinical area to enable a high quality responsive service including out of hours working.
2. Be resilient and flexible to service demands to enable a high quality responsive enhanced care service including out of hours working. To work in an environment with constant interruptions for staff and patient needs and from others dealing with service issues. Concentration required for clinical assessment, and making clinical decisions.
3. Contribute and where appropriate lead the development of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and team objectives for the area of expertise.
4. Act as role model of standards for behaviour and professions, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures within role and workplace.
5. Contribute to local networks and specialty specific groups, working in partnership with other key professionals.
Person specification
Shortlisting
* Advanced clinical practice skills
* Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
* Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
* Clinical examination skills
Qualifications/Training
* Registered first level nurse or equivalent professional registration e.g. HCPC
* MSc or equivalent level knowledge/ experience in relevant area
* Clinical supervision training and experience
* Extended/independent nurse or specialist
Experience
* Recent primary and community/ nursing/therapeutic experience
* Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries
* Nurse-led triage
* Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
* Clinical Leadership
* Audit
* Research
* Non-medical prescribing
* Ability to work across boundaries
Skills/Knowledge
* Advanced clinical practice skills Management of patients with long-term conditions
* Management of patients with complex needs
* Clinical examination skills
* Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
* Local and national health policy
* Clinical governance issues in primary care
* Patient group directions and associated policy
* Knowledge of quality standards & adheres to NICE guidelines, CQUINs
* Negotiation and conflict management skills
* Proven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
* Clinical leadership skills
Personal Qualities
* Clinical leadership skills
* Communication skills, both written and verbal
* Proven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
* Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
* Negotiation and conflict management skills
* Change management
* Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
* Resource management
Other Job Requirements
* Highly motivated
* Flexibility
* Team player
* Ability to work across boundaries
* Agile working, car driver with access to own transport
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here
Benefits of working for us:
* Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
* Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
* Discounts for local and national retailers
* Dedicated well-being services for all employees
* Flexible working where possible
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
Name Sandip Samra Job title Operational Service Manager Intermediate Care Email address sandip.samra2@nhs.net Telephone number 07515 070268
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