Clinical Practitioner, Band 6 - NHS - ref. l8500423
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
The post holder will work closely with medical, nursing, therapy, and clinical support services to ensure that patients receive appropriate interventions, investigations, and treatment with minimal delay. The post holder will be part of a Rota to cover the service which will run 8am-8pm, 7 days a week.
Responsible for the holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care for patients referred to hospital at home service.
Responsible for delivering, evaluating and supporting training of patient and carers enabling them to be cared for virtually
Utilising remote monitoring as part of the clinical care delivery.
Providing high-quality care for patients including co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team and allocating visits as appropriate.
Delivering high-quality, clinically effective care, and patient experience, utilising research and in collaboration with colleagues in everyday practice.
Participate in effective clinical leadership and management of team members through clinical supervision.
Actively contribute to the development and improvement of services and the quality of care through reflective practice, clinical supervision and audit.
Act as a role model, mentoring, teaching, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.
Main duties of the job
The role responsibilities will include:
Care Delivery- Demonstrate high level of judgmental/analytical skills when interpreting and performing patient assessments and care planning via the telephone and face to face.
- Maintain accurate and up to date patient care records, maintaining patient confidentiality, and statistical records as required by the service.
- Work with other professionals to promote multidisciplinary / multiagency working.
- Undertake clinical skills e.g Phlebotomy, ECG’s, Physical Observations and monitoring.
- To attend and contribute to virtual ward MDTs
- Triage of patients referred to the virtual ward hub highlighting clinical need, initiating treatment, and making referrals to senior medical or specialty colleagues as required.
- Following up referrals and supporting the discharge of patients with the digital provider supporting the Virtual Ward programme.
- Liaising with the relevant senior medical, nursing, allied health professionals (AHPs) and pharmacy teams and stakeholders across the Integrated Care System (ICS) e.g., GPs, community / primary care network pharmacists, district nurses & social workers to promote safe, evidence-based delivery of care within the medical division virtual ward pathways.
Working for our organisation
We have a dedicated team working in our virtual ward medical hub in a multi-professional team. We have an ambitious aim for our NHS@Home Virtual Ward pathways to be truly integrated between primary, community and secondary care and to offer a high quality, alternative to acute bedded care for the people of Gloucestershire.These roles offer an exciting new opportunity for skilled nurses and AHPs to develop the service with our dedicated medical and community teams and to gain experience working at the interface between community and secondary care for acutely unwell patients.
The service will aim to manage patients safely at home with a range of medical conditions who would otherwise be in hospital such as respiratory, frailty, heart failure – with the support of specialty teams and our digital partner we believe that this is an exciting time to be joining this new team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Responsible for the holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care for patients referred to hospital at home service.
- Responsible for delivering, evaluating and supporting training of patient and carers enabling them to be cared for virtually.
- Utilising remote monitoring as part of the clinical care delivery
- Providing high-quality care for patients including co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team and allocating visits as appropriate.
- Delivering high-quality, clinically effective care, and patient experience, utilising research and in collaboration with colleagues in everyday practice.
- Participate in effective clinical leadership and management of team members through clinical supervision.
- Actively contribute to the development and improvement of services and the quality of care through reflective practice, clinical supervision and audit.
- Act as a role model, mentoring, teaching, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.
Contact Details
Helen Acock (Clinical Operational Lead)
[email protected]
0300 422 3973
Hours of work Monday to Friday 8-4pm.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria- Registered Health Care professional NMC/HCPC
- Degree and post-graduate qualification in relevant clinical area.
- Advanced assessment skills (post-graduate or masters level)
- Evidence of portfolio of knowledge, skills and professional development within relevant field (i.e: acute or community medicine)
- Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by proficient clinical, diagnostic, assessment, and treatment skills
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information
- Evidence of persuasive and strong leadership skills, resilience, determination, and ability to manage conflict
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload effectively
- Non-medical prescribing, Level 7, with evidence of updated. knowledge appropriate to patient groups prescribing for
- Demonstrate the role of education in this post and how they would address the educational needs
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary.Please contact [email protected] for further information.
The Trust is a safeguarding employer committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Trust is committed to safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults, and any appointment will be subject to satisfactory clearance.As part of the organisation's commitment to Safer Recruitment, candidates may request copies of relevant policies and procedures by contacting the Recruitment Team at [email protected]
Committed to supporting service personnel
As part of our commitment to support Service Personnel, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with the Career Transition Partnership, offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for all qualifying Service and Ex-Service Personnel.To qualify for a guaranteed interview, candidates must meet the essential criteria for the post and be either a current member of the Armed Forces, or be within the two year period of resettlement. If this applies to you please email the job reference number and your AR number to the Recruitment Team at [email protected]
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