Clinical Practitioner

Wight Healthcare; Fordingbridge; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Wight Healthcare in Hampshire is seeking a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional to join our Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home Service. You will perform urgent assessments, enable crisis intervention, and support admission avoidance and discharge for people with complex health needs.

Work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team of nurses, therapists, primary care colleagues and hospital partners to deliver high-quality care closer to home.

Responsibilities

• Undertake holistic clinical assessments and develop person-centred care plans
• Deliver urgent interventions and proactive case management
• Support patients living with frailty, long-term conditions, rehabilitation and complex health and social care needs
• Contribute to hospital admission avoidance and timely discharge
• Provide leadership, supervision and support to junior staff and students
• Participate in service improvement, innovation and quality initiatives

Job description

Are you a passionate and experienced Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional looking for a role where you can make an immediate and meaningful impact? Join our Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home Service and play a key role in delivering high-quality care closer to home.

You will provide urgent assessments, crisis intervention, admission avoidance and discharge support for people with complex health needs. You will work autonomously whilst being part of a supportive multidisciplinary team that includes nurses, therapists, advanced practitioners, primary care colleagues, acute hospital teams, ambulance services and social care partners.

What You Will Do

• Undertake holistic clinical assessments and develop person-centred care plans
• Deliver urgent interventions and proactive case management
• Support patients living with frailty, long-term conditions, rehabilitation and complex health and social care needs
• Contribute to hospital admission avoidance and timely discharge
• Provide leadership, supervision and support to junior staff and students
• Participate in service improvement, innovation and quality initiatives

Please note this is a part time role for 30 hr per week.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & IOW NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.