Band 7 Clinical Practitioner Frailty

Transformationunitgm; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider dedicated to transforming community health services in Birmingham. As a Band 7 Clinical Practitioner, you'll leverage your clinical expertise to enhance patient care through the innovative Virtual Wards model. This role offers the chance to work across diverse settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharges. Embrace the opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that values integrated, personalized care, and contribute to one of the largest health and social care transformations in the UK. If you're passionate about making a real difference in people's lives, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Full NHS Terms and Conditions

Extensive Holidays

Attractive Relocation Payment

Discounts for Local and National Retailers

Dedicated Well-being Services

Flexible Working Options

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Level 1/AHP, with evidence of recent CPD.
• Degree level education in nursing or relevant health field.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical expertise and operational management.
• Work collaboratively to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
• Lead integrated multidisciplinary teams and triage referrals.

Skills

Clinical Expertise

Operational Management

Multi-disciplinary Collaboration

Patient Assessment

Decision Making

Communication Skills

Safeguarding Knowledge

Education

Registered Nurse Level 1/AHP

Degree in Nursing or Health Field

Non-Medical Prescribing Qualifications

Job description

Main area Nursing Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible (to cover 7 days a week 08:00 to 22:00)) Job ref 820-7120648-COM

Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Priestley Wharf 1&2 Town Birmingham Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/05/2025 23:59

Band 7 Clinical Practitioner Frailty

Band 7

Job overview

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

The post holder will be able to provide expert 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.

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, and facilitating early hospital discharge.

Main duties of the job

Create an environment where clients are able to be at the centre of their own care and decision making processes sensitive to the needs of the person. Respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of the service users, involving them in shared decision making and obtaining their consent to treatment/referrals.

Act to safeguard the patient taking emergency action where necessary, reporting any potential or actual risks to the patient immediately and following the safeguarding policy. Take responsibility for ensuring risks to safeguarding are reported in a timely manner within the team. Work at times within the Virtual Ward Hub and act as the shift lead role, triaging new referrals and allocation to appropriate discipline within the teams; monitoring patient progress, leading on safety huddles, integrated MDT s and case reflections within the shift lead role.

Working for our organisation

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Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

• Registered Nurse Level 1/ AHP, NMC or HCPC registered
• Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification in nursing or relevant health field.
• Non Medical Prescribing qualifications
• European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care
• Leadership course
• Mentor/Teaching qualification ENB 998 or equivalent

Experience

• Experience of multi-disciplinary working in a community or secondary care setting
• Significant post registration experience at/within the community setting
• Experience of carrying out clinical audit, The ability to carry out holistic, high level assessment of health and social needs of patients.
• Experience of leading a team including undertaking appraisals.
• Experience of teaching, training and mentoring.
• Experience in dealing with the management of change.
• Understanding of Health & Safety and Risk Management legislation and ability to apply to practice.

Skills/knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical practice.
• Able to manage change.
• Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries internally and externally.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Decision making and negotiation skill. Ability to use electronic communication and information services
• Knowledge of current political agendas affecting the NHS and Social Care.
• Understanding of the needs of frail older people.
• Willingness to further develop new clinical skills.
• Awareness of the complex needs of a multicultural, socially diverse population.
• Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults

Personal Qualities

• As per person spec
• As per person spec

Other job requirements

• As per person spec
• As per person spec

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***