Community Practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home

NHS; Stockport; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Stockport is looking for a Registered Nurse to join the Discharge to Assess team. This role involves supporting patients in their transition from hospital to home, working within a multi-professional team. Candidates should have a degree in Adult Nursing, a valid NMC registration, and be flexible in providing care across various settings. The position offers ongoing training and development opportunities, together with a supportive team environment.

Benefits

27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Salary sacrifice schemes

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance services

Local financial advice from Stockport Credit Union

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualified and enthusiastic about working in the community.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams and community services.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development in relevant areas.

Responsibilities

• Support patients to leave the hospital and assess their needs at home.
• Provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and short-term rehabilitation.
• Collaborate with various health professionals to optimize patient independence.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Time management

Problem-solving abilities

Communication with complex needs patients

Education

Degree in Adult Nursing

State Registration with the NMC

UK driving licence

Job description

Community Practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home

The Discharge to Assess Team are looking for a Registered Community Nurse, to fulfil an exciting opportunity within Stockport Foundation Trust. We are looking for someone who shares our excitement, to embrace different ways of working and are able to work flexibly across organisational boundaries.

Discharge To Assess is a multi-professional service supporting patients to leave the hospital setting back into the community. The team provides individualised patient centred care to assess a person's needs, whilst optimising independence and facilitate a safe transfer to onward care into the appropriate services: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies.

Main duties of the job

To support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or another community setting.

Assessment for longer-term care and support needs is undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person. We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.

Short-term rehabilitation support to optimise independence in the community with the aim to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. This role will require the post holder to be flexible to cover all areas within the Discharge to Assess service, covering 7 days 08.00-21.00.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be a qualified Registered Nurse. You will be working within a multi-professional team incorporating Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers and rehabilitation Support Workers, as well as liaising with other community health and social care teams.

The whole service provides a person centred approach, which can be provided in a clients own home. The service is provided across 7 days a week covering core hours of 8 am 9 pm.

You will be based at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS. The successful candidate will be expected to work independently, but also as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. You will be offered 1:1s and access to supervision peer support. The service promotes regular profession specific and MDT team meetings.

You will need to be a Registered Nurse with an enthusiasm for working within the community, with the ability to work flexibly between all aspects of the service. We place a great emphasis on training and personal development and will provide you with access to training and supervision. The candidate will be able to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning, excellent time management and advanced communication skills. There will be support available from clinical leads. Lone working is an expected element within this community role with support from the Multidisciplinary team.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Degree in Adult Nursing
• State Registration with the NMC
• UK driving licence (will need use of a car for work purposes and business use insurance on commencement of post). Driver with daily access to a car
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical fields in rotations
• Related academic attainment

Knowledge

• Knowledge of community practices and a wide range of conditions- theoretical, practical and professional
• Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
• Health, safety and risk awareness. Knowledge of Risk Assessment and management.
• Understanding of professional ethics and their application and practice.
• Knowledge of health legislation and current practice. Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application
• Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities
• Knowledge of working in community services
• Completion of recognised relevant postgraduate courses.

Experience

• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of student or assistant supervision and clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants.
• Experience of working with patients with dementing illness, confused patients and patients with severe physical limitations to mobility.
• Experience of participation in complex discharge planning
• Experience of working in an acute UK hospital including experience of the following specialities. Orthopaedics; Medicine; Respiratory; Stroke/Neurology; Older people.
• Experience of community working
• Experience of conflict resolution

Skills and abilities

• Very good problem-solving abilities and ability to prioritise
• Clinical reasoning skills
• Ability to communicate with patients with complex needs and problems and to cope with aggressive or emotional behaviours.
• Able to manage time effectively
• Up-to-date in current issues around professional practice and evidence-based practice.
• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Positive approach to work.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Competent IT and presentation skills.
• Ability to run internal/external courses. Evidence of participation in research.

Work related circumstances

• Ability to move and handle patients
• Undertake out of hours duties; evenings and weekends required.
• Driver with daily access to a car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.