Band 6 Virtual Ward Practitioner

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Service Manager – Intermediate Care Group to lead the Virtual Ward (Hospital @Home) model. You will work across city-wide settings with MDTs to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge, including in community and secondary care settings.

The role requires advanced clinical leadership, robust communication, safeguarding knowledge, and willingness to work across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a registered health professional including community/frailty settings.
• Experience in multidisciplinary approach to care within community services.
• Up-to-date post-registration education relevant to the role.
• Understanding of safeguarding and clinical governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with MDTs to provide expert clinical advice and support.
• Assess, plan and manage care for a highly specialist adult caseload at home.
• Coordinate with Secondary and Primary Care to prevent admissions and enable early discharge.
• Ensure evidence-based care and effective use of digital patient systems.
• Promote health in partnership with patients, relatives and the MDT.
• Support teaching and supervision of less experienced staff and supervise caseloads.

Skills

Clinical leadership

MDT collaboration

Communication skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Risk management

NMC/HCPC code knowledge

Education

Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)/ AHP

Degree in relevant subject

Mentoring or teaching qualification

Nurse prescriber

Job description

The post holder will be able to provide clinical expertise, operational management, to the Virtual Wards (Hospital @Home) Model within Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust.

The purpose of the role is to work across the system in a variety of city-wide settings but not exclusive to the community and inpatient units, and to in-reach into secondary care, to identify and assess patients, to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate early supportive discharge.

The work will be undertaken collaboratively with Secondary and Primary Care, and Community Services, including Urgent Care Response, Early Intervention Team (EICT), and Specialists Services.

The post holder will work attend integrated multidisciplinary teams (MDT's) to provide advice and support and agreed data to support the Virtual Ward (Hospital @Home) Model.

The post holder will under supervision: Provideaspects of direct clinical patient care, provide expert clinical support and advice and is able to manage aspects of the service within teams which are fundamental parts of this role.Assess, diagnose, and manage a highly specialist adult patient caseload in a variety of settings, which will include assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning therapy programmes and discharge of patients.

****You will be expected to work shifts as required between the hours of 08:00 until 18:00***( not 22:00)

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, premature admission to long-term residential care and facilitating early hospital discharge, plus the added bonus of Birmingham being a fantastic place to work and live.

A real opportunity to work within the self-motivated and aspirational MDT dailyThe post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process, in partnership with the Clinical Practice (CP) Lead. Also the Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Lead.

Supporting people of Birmingham and ensuring they are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes. Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

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.

Job responsibilities

Work in accordance with the NMC / HCPC Code of Practice

Be conversant with all BCHC NHS FT policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented.

Ensure evidence-based care is practiced and promoted at all times

Manage own time effectively and prioritise workload

Facilitate teaching and supervision for less experienced members of staff.

Promote health by collaborative working with patients and their relatives. Provide support to the multidisciplinary team to enable patients to make better choices for their health and that of their families, undertaking health promotion and contributing to the prevention of adverse effects to health and wellbeing.

Act as a role model to and facilitate others to respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of patients: involving them in shared decision making and obtaining consent prior to all interventions.

Safeguard individuals from abuse by reporting any incidents involving potential or actual abuse and acting upon concerns immediately.

Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to care

Participate in the further development of an integrated, multi-disciplinary EICT and Virtual Ward working alongside colleagues in Integrated MDT;s and the wider health and social care economy to facilitate achievement of patient outcomes.

Triage and co-ordinate other junior members of the team and appropriately delegate specific aspects of nursing and therapy care according to the care plan.

Participate in MDTs within Secondary Care, In-patient, UCR and Community Services. facilitating the continuity of patient care ensuring patients and relatives are kept informed of treatments, progress, and discharge arrangements.

Have responsibility for the safe use of highly complex patient monitoring and support equipment within the work area Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with colleagues and stakeholders, utilising electronic methods of communication within the remit of the Data Protection, ensuring clinical information is conveyed within a timeframe that ensures patient safety.

Fully utilise digital platforms, patient systems and IT to support patient monitoring and clinical care delivery.Facilitate safe discharge from caseloads to an appropriate community setting.

Qualifications/Training

• Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)/ AHP
• Evidence of up to date post registration education relevant to the role.
• Degree in relevant subject.
• Mentoring or teaching qualification.
• Nurse prescriber

Experience

• Significant experience as a registered health professional including working in the community , frailty, or older adult setting or care
• Experience working as a registered nurse/AHP in the community.
• Significant experience of a multidisciplinary approach to care

Skills/Knowledge

• Skills to organise team workload and prioritise
• Awareness of legislation affecting the role including equal opportunities law.
• Ability to evidence application of utilising evidence-based practice
• Comprehensive assessment skills and knowledge of the needs of the older person including risk management.
• Knowledge of current legislation, particularly those affecting community services
• Knowledge and application of the NMC code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice.
• Understanding of the principles and application of Clinical Governance.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical audit.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of the complex needs of a socially and culturally diverse population.
• Understanding of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults and children.

Personal Qualities

• As per person spec
• As per person spec

Other job requirements

• Willing to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays as part of a rota.
• Ability to work across various sites across the community.
• As per person spec

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.

Priestley Wharf 2, Virtual Ward Holt Street

Service Manager – Intermediate Care Group

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum (pro rata)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

820-8322832-COM

Job locations

Virtual ward

Priestley Wharf 2, Virtual Ward Holt Street