Community Assistant Practitioner - Central Norfolk Home First Hub

NHS Jobs; Norwich; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Community Assistant Practitioner to support the Central Norfolk Home First Hub. You will triage referrals for patients on Discharge to Assess pathways, assess needs, determine care priority, and allocate referrals with the Integrated team to ensure timely responses.

You will contribute to delivering high standards of care in patients' homes, care homes, and community clinics, using a reablement philosophy to promote independence and

Qualifications

• Experience with triage and care planning in community settings.
• Ability to work within a reablement philosophy and strengths-based assessments.
• Effective communication with health care professionals and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Triage referrals for patients on Discharge to Assess pathways.
• Assess patient needs, plan and allocate care, liaise with the multidisciplinary team.
• Promote independence and facilitate early discharge from hospital within integrated teams.
• Provide care in patients' homes, care homes, clinics and community settings.

Job description

Community Assistant Practitioner - Central Norfolk Home First Hub

To support the Central Norfolk Home First Hub Service with triage of referrals for patients on Discharge to Assess pathways, assessing the patients needs, determining the priority of care, processing and allocating referrals accordingly, liaising with multidisciplinary team to ensure timely responses to referrals on an individual patient needs-based basis utilising the knowledge, skills and expertise of others in the Integrated team To contribute in the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own homes, care homes, the travelling community, Community Hospitals and clinics, by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating packages of care To work within a reablement philosophy, using strengths based assessments and actively promoting independence for the patients. To work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital. To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital. To work, liaise and communicate with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users on the Discharge to Assess pathway and in community teams.

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust