About this role
Job summary
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
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.
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.
Ensure the patient is placed at the center of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.
About us
All staff, workers, volunteers, students and individuals undertaking work experience/shadowing, irrespective of the role they specifically undertake, are required to adhere to BCHC's vision, values, and professional standards. This also involves working with and alongside colleagues and partners, demonstrating a duty of Candour (i.e., honesty and straightforwardness), openness and accountability in order to achieve high quality and the best possible care outcomes for our patients, service users and the local community.
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Job description Job responsibilities
Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDRs.
Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staffs perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.
Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.
Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation. Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits
Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis. Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training Essential
Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)/ AHP. Significant experience of a multidisciplinary approach to care. Evidence of up-to-date post registration education relevant to the role Relevant nursing/health degree Independent prescriber MSc or equivalent level knowledge/ experience in relevant area
Experience Essential
Significant experience as a registered health professional including working in a rehabilitation, frailty, community or older adult setting or care Experience working as a registered nurse in the community. Significant experience of a multidisciplinary approach to care. Non-medical prescribing Nurse-led triage Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries
Desirable
Mentoring or teaching qualification.
Skills/knowledge Essential
Advanced clinical practice skills Management of patients with long-term conditions Management of patients with complex needs Clinical examination skills Accountability of own role
Desirable
Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.
Personal qualities Essential
oClinical leadership skills oCommunication skills, both written and verbal oCommunication of difficult messages to patients and families oProven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
Desirable
Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.
Other job requirements Essential
Highly motivated Self-directed practitioner Team player Ability to work across boundaries Agile working, car driver with access to own transport Flexibility
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address Ann Marie Howes
20 Platt Brook
Birmingham
B7 4BN
Employer's website https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)