About this role
Job summary
Community Practitioner - Discharge to Assess Services
Band 6 - 37.50hrs/week - Permanent
The Discharge to Assess team is an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport and surrounding areas. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, we will facilitate timely discharges from acute hospital sites and provide assessment and support planning to meet a person's needs in the community. The post holder will provide and/or arrange appropriate support interventions in the community via Discharge to Assess collaboratively working closely with colleagues across all sectors.
Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in a bed based facility. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries.
This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated, forward thinking and experienced therapist with experience in community settings who will work alongside an integrated Multidisciplinary Team to improve flow and quality of the patient's journey. You must have excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to work autonomously, whilst being flexible and adaptable to supporting the service leads in developing and changing the service as it evolves.
You will be part of an integrated therapy team and we have a strong commitment to support all staff members with CPD opportunities. We offer regular supervision and annual appraisal with a regular in-service training programme.
The post requires a commitment to weekend working which is underpinned by teaching and a competency programme.
The post requires working hours over a 7 day service and fulfilling the service needs until 9pm.
About us
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
NHS pension scheme membership Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further NHS Staff discounts Cycle to work scheme Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice
Job description Job responsibilities
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached and can be downloaded.
The person specification detailed is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications Essential
1st level nurse registered with NMC with a degree or diploma in nursing/ registered with HCPC with an AHP degree. Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent post registration courses relevant to nursing
Desirable
District Nursing or Community Specialist Practitioner, District Nursing, qualification (if nurse application Nurse Prescriber V100/ V150/AHP prescriber
Knowledge Essential
Up to date knowledge of nursing/AHP issues and primary care Knowledge of working of community services / /Intermediate care services/Discharge To Assess Evidence of management and leadership Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
Desirable
Evidence of innovative practice
Experience Essential
Experience of working as part of a community and multidisciplinary team. Experience of student supervision Experience of working in a rehabilitation setting. Experience of working with Stroke patients, patients with dementing illness, confused patients and patients with physical limitations to mobility. Participation in discharge planning. Contributing to clinical education of less experienced staff, students, unregistered staff
Skills & Abilities Essential
Able to manage time effectively. Excellent communication skills Up-to-date in current issues around professional practice and evidence-based practice. Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services including experience of quality issues and audit
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 Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Address 1 Wellington Road-4th Floor D2A and ICAH services
Stockport
SK4 1AF
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://www.stockport.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)