About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an Extended Clinical Practitioner (ECP) to join our Hospital at Home service, providing responsive, hospital-level care to people in their own homes.
Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will use your advanced assessment and clinical decision-making skills to assess and manage people with acute illness, frailty and complex needs. The role offers real variety, with opportunities to undertake comprehensive assessment, diagnostics and treatment in the home, working closely with senior clinicians and wider health and care services to help people receive the right care in the right place.
Hospital at Home is continuing to develop across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and we are looking for clinicians who want to be part of that journey. You will have the opportunity not only to deliver high-quality clinical care, but also to help shape pathways, develop new ways of working and contribute to the ongoing development of the service.
If you enjoy autonomous practice, clinical challenge, working across traditional service boundaries and making a tangible difference to people's experience of urgent and acute care, we would love you to join us.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician who enjoys autonomous practice, clinical challenge and making a real difference to patient care. You will use advanced assessment skills, clinical reasoning and diagnostic decision-making to manage patients with complex and often unpredictable needs in their own homes. Working closely with health and care partners, you will lead care planning, support safe admission avoidance and provide expert clinical leadership within the wider multidisciplinary team.
Alongside delivering high-quality patient care, you will contribute to staff development, quality improvement, education and service transformation, helping to shape the future of Hospital at Home across the region.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Appropriate professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional) that allows registration with the NMC or HCPC Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC Degree level award Independent non-medical prescribing or pharmacology level 7 profession relevant qualification. Holds level 7 Clinical History Taking & Physical Examination Holds level 7 Diagnostics and Decision making
Desirable
Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent/ mentorship qualification
Experience Essential
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Desirable
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Additional Criteria Essential
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Desirable
For full details of the role, including the main duties, responsibilities, essential criteria and person specification, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address 1 Bullspen
Manor Court, Herriard
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG25 2PH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)