Community Practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stockport is seeking a Registered Community Nurse to support the Discharge to Assess Team. This position involves providing holistic, patient-centered care for individuals transitioning from hospital to community settings, requiring flexibility and collaboration with various services. The role includes assessments, promoting independence, and covering a 7-day service. Competitive benefits such as NHS pension and annual leave are offered.

Benefits

27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme membership

Salary sacrifice schemes

NHS Staff discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance services

Local financial advice via Stockport Credit Union

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualification is essential.
• Ability to work flexibly across services and with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in community care or hospital discharge services.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized patient-centered care and assessments.
• Facilitate safe transfers to onward care services.
• Support short-term rehabilitation to optimize independence.

Job description

Overview

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. 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.

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.

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.

Benefits we offer to you:

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