Acute Care at Home Practitioner | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This service operates between the hours of 8am and 8pm, seven days per week, with an expectation to support our community nursing teams until 22.00 hours. The successful applicant will be required to take shared responsibility for the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and making onward referral when appropriate.
Supporting patients to optimise and maintain their independence in the home environment will be achieved in partnership with the wider community clinician teams, primary care health and social care professionals. Care will be delivered within operational and clinical protocols that support safe high-quality clinical practice
The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths. This will include assessment, developing care plans, setting treatment objectives and maintaining associated records and to clinically assess the patient utilising the skills acquired from undertaking the physical and clinical reasoning course (PACR) course or equivalent, to ensure the safe assessment of patients in their diagnosis and treatment plan.
The post holder will contribute to the leadership, management and organisation of the Hospital at Home team as required, ensuring a standard of care that is evidence based, clinically effective and consistent with contemporary models of care.This service is provided 365 days per year therefore it is a requirement that the postholder will work weekends and twilight shifts and will require a driving licence and access to a car with business insurance.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
Service We will put our patients firstTeamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
The post holder will work in an enabling model, empowering the service user and family carers to identify their strengths. This will include assessment, developing care plans, setting treatment objectives and maintaining associated records.- To clinically assess the patient utilising the skills acquired from undertaking the physical and clinical reasoning course (PACR) course or equivalent, to ensure the safe assessment of patients in their diagnosis and treatment plan.
- The post holder will contribute to the leadership, management and organisation of the Hospital at Home team as required, ensuring a standard of care that is evidence based, clinically effective and consistent with contemporary models of care.
- To communicate effectively with Service Users and Carers, acting as a source of counsel, advisor and listener within acute, chronic and terminal illness.
- To communicate effectively with other health and social care professionals, including GPs.
- To develop positive relationships with service users and their carers ensuring that open and effective communication is in place.
- To professionally and sensitively deal with delicate and sensitive issues pertaining to service users and their carers including dealing with anxious, distressed service users and relatives at times
This advert closes on Friday 25 Oct 2024