Job Summary
Are you an experienced and motivated clinician looking to make a real difference by delivering high-quality care closer to home?
We are seeking a Band 6 Clinical Practitioner to join our innovative Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Virtual Wards service. This exciting role offers the opportunity to work across integrated community pathways that support admission avoidance, early supported discharge and hospital-level care delivered in patients' own homes.
You will undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, support clinical decision-making, coordinate care across multidisciplinary teams and contribute to the delivery of responsive, patient-centred care. Working within a dynamic and supportive team, you will help people receive the right care, at the right time, in the place they call home.
We are looking for a registered healthcare professional with excellent assessment and communication skills, experience of managing complex patients, and a passion for integrated community care. Experience in urgent care, frailty, community services or virtual care models would be advantageous.
In return, we offer structured induction, clinical supervision, opportunities for professional development, involvement in quality improvement and service transformation, and the chance to be part of a forward-thinking service shaping the future of community healthcare.
Join us and help deliver outstanding urgent and intermediate care across Solihull and the wider community.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
The UCR/VW team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission within their own home within 2 hours of referral to the service. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors
The post holder will work in the Urgent community response team and Virtual Wards to assist in the prevention of inappropriate hospital admissions and the facilitation of hospital discharge in line with the overall objectives of the service.
The post holder will ensure access to Urgent Health Assessments, provide and monitor short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions. Utilising clinical expertise, clinical judgement, discretion and decision making in the development of individualised treatment.
To work in partnership with primary, secondary and other health and social care providers, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.
To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.
The post holder will be expected to work within a flexible working pattern over a 7 day week 24/7 in the urgent community response team as required.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of professional and clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level leading to Professional registration on the appropriate part of the HCPC / NMC register i.e. (Adult / Child / Learning Disability or Mental Health)
- Evidence of undergraduate education for newly qualified nurses / or post graduate continuing professional development for registered nurses who have post registration experience
Desirable
- Health care management / leadership qualification
- Mentorship / assessor training qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience working in a complex health care setting / Acute NHS care setting supervising / mentoring junior staff
- Evidence of professional /clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical and or managerial training and CPD
- Can demonstrate understanding / experience / willingness to be a practice-based supervisor / assessor as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council ( NMC ) standards for student supervision and assessment
- Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- Relevant and recent clinical experience within the speciality /acute care setting, including the supervision /education of junior staff
- Experience of mentoring undergraduate students
- Evidence of ability to lead /coordinate a shift /area of department
- Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice.
- Demonstrable ability, experience, passion in the following:
oLeadership
oTeam Building
oManaging resources
oTime management
oRole modelling
oChange management / clinical developments
oClinical governance
oAudit and research
oWorkforce planning / management
oNHS policy and political awareness
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Ability to work flexible shift pattern, where required to include rotation today /night duty and unsocial hours according to service need
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Esther Whittingham
[email protected]01214245666
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9018341
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Attachments
Job Description
Clinical Practitioner UCR VW B6 JDPS Updated_Esther Whittingham (2).pdf – 601KB Opens in a new window