Clinical Practitioner

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

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 practitioners to work within our established Urgent Community Response Team in West Essex. The teams assess and manage acutely unwell patients at home using a variety of pathways including respiratory, heart failure and frailty, to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital. This includes the utilisation of remote technology and new ways of working to provide a safe alternative to hospital admission and support people to be discharged from hospital earlier than may have been possible previously. The focus of this role is delivering high quality care in the community, holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and reviewing care provision across the Hospital at Home and UCRT pathways of care. This is an exciting opportunity to shape services that will improve the experience of healthcare for the population of West Essex and deliver an NHS national priority.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the team with a range of skills and clinical expertise. You need to be flexible, hardworking, have excellent communication skills and appreciate the need for professional development within your practice to ensure we establish a responsive and effective team.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for prioritising and planning own workload on a day-to-day basis with some direction.


• To use advanced knowledge and skills in order to manage patients care as an autonomous practitioner; without direct supervision, drawing on advanced theoretical and practical experience.


• Negotiate, agree expectations, and set appropriate realistic and individual goals in partnership with the patient, carer and colleagues


• Ensure that assessments, programmes of care, and evaluations related to patients being accepted and onboarded onto the service pathways comply with the Trust’s agreed clinical standards.


• Ensure provision of holistic and rapid assessment of patients referred in a timely manner to support early discharge from the acute hospital provision.


• Provide home visits and deliver programmes of care according to clinical need within 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.

Working for our organisation

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.


• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.


• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.


• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.


• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.


• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.


• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us (subject to terms and conditions)


• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.


• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.

Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [e-mail] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.