Autonomous Clinical Practitioner: Urgent Community Care

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Ivy Chimneys; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Excellent pension

Staff discounts

£8K relocation package

Season ticket loans

Flexible working

Job summary

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in West Essex is seeking Band 6 practitioners to join the Urgent Community Response Team. You will assess and manage acutely unwell patients at home using pathways such as respiratory, heart failure, and frailty, helping prevent hospital admissions and support timely discharges.

The role emphasises holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and reviewing care across Hospital at Home and UCRT pathways, with flexible work patterns, excellent

Qualifications

• We welcome Band 6 practitioners with enthusiasm and flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise and plan own workload on a day-to-day basis with some direction.
• To use advanced knowledge and skills to manage patients' care as an autonomous practitioner; without direct supervision, drawing on advanced theoretical and practical experience.
• Negotiate, agree expectations, and set appropriate goals in partnership with the patient, carer and colleagues.
• Ensure assessments, programmes of care, and evaluations comply with the Trust’s clinical standards.
• Provide holistic and rapid assessment to support early discharge from the acute hospital provision and timely discharge from the service.
• Deliver home visits and care per agreed protocols after escalation and discussion at MDT meetings.
• Facilitate safe and timely discharge from the service including generation of a discharge summary to GPs.

Skills

Communication skills

Flexible working

Clinical assessment

Job description

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in West Essex is seeking Band 6 practitioners to join the Urgent Community Response Team. You will assess and manage acutely unwell patients at home using pathways such as respiratory, heart failure, and frailty, helping prevent hospital admissions and support timely discharges.

The role emphasises holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and reviewing care across Hospital at Home and UCRT pathways, with flexible work patterns, excellent