Band 6 Virtual Ward Practitioner

Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinician to provide clinical expertise and operational management for the Virtual Wards (Hospital @Home) model across Birmingham. The post involves working within city-wide settings, in-reach into secondary care, and collaboration with Primary Care and Urgent Care services to prevent admissions and enable early discharge.

You will join integrated MDTs, deliver high quality home and community care, assess and manage adult

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and operational management for the Virtual Wards (Hospital @Home) model.
• Work across city-wide settings, including in-reach into secondary care to prevent avoidable admissions.
• Collaborate with Secondary and Primary Care, Urgent Care Response, Early Intervention Team and Specialists Services.
• Attend MDTs to provide advice and support and supply data to support the model.
• Assess, diagnose and manage a highly specialist adult patient caseload in home and community settings.
• Discharge planning and facilitating early discharge where appropriate.

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.

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.

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 local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.