Job Introduction
We are looking for an accredited Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse or AHP) who will take a lead in the advanced assessment, management and treatment of patients in community settings with particular focus on those referred for the 2 hour Urgent Community Response (UCR).
The role will involve undertaking visits to patients living at home or in care homes across Bath and North East Somerset as part of urgent community response UCR.
Bath and North East Somerset Community Health and Care Services.
HRCG Services Limited has been commissioned by both Bath and North East Somerset Council and NHS Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group to deliver the Bath and North East Somerset Community Health and Care Services.
As well as providing services locally, we also oversee other services provided by the NHS and voluntary organisations to improve the physical and mental health and well-being of everyone in the area. We aim to provide a joined-up service so you only need to tell your story once and have a single plan for achieving your health and wellbeing goals.
We will provide the right care at the right time so you feel supported and empowered to make informed choices and take control of managing your health.
We will use new technology to join up your health records and allow you to share them securely with family, friends, and professionals of your choice so you can be treated as a person, not a condition.
Main Responsibility
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary, acute and social care interfaces in BaNES, you will be responsible for coordinating the provision of specialist interventions to meet the urgent health care needs of people at risk of hospitalisation or those requiring facilitated timely discharge from emergency departments.
You will gain a systematic patient history, perform assessment and physical examination and diagnose before making a management and treatment plan in partnership with the patient and wider team. The team support UCR are comprised of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Community Nurses, Community Matrons, Therapists and Social Workers. The UCR programme has been established and a key focus for this role is further expand the 9 clinical pathways and to increase referrals into the service to reduce conveyances to the emergency department.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Nurse or AHP) who has completed an Advanced Practice programme (minimum 120 credits at Master's level).
You must demonstrate excellent clinical, communication and organisational skills and enjoy working in a new team and be an innovative Advanced Practitioner clinician.
A strong clinical background in older person's care and frailty is important.
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Package Description
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at Bath and North East Somerset Community Health and Care Services.
You will feel valued as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £48,526 Salary/Band 8a with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on ever day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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