Specialist Practitioner - Nurse, AHP, Paramedic

TN United Kingdom; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Specialist Practitioner to deliver high-quality care within the community. This role offers the chance to work autonomously and make a significant impact on patient lives by preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and provide care in various settings, ensuring patients receive the right treatment at the right time. With flexible working options available, this position is perfect for those looking to balance their professional and personal lives while contributing to a vital community service.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional required.
• Post Registration Qualification in advanced clinical assessment skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage undiagnosed conditions using advanced clinical skills.
• Provide holistic patient care from assessment to discharge.

Skills

Advanced assessment skills

Robust IT skills

Ability to manage competing demands

Evidence of complex patient management

Education

Registered General Nurse or Allied Healthcare Professional

Post Registration Qualification in advanced clinical assessment skills

Mentorship qualification or teaching

Job description

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Client:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Abingdon, United Kingdom

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

10.05.2025

Expiry Date:

24.06.2025

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Job overview

Are you are looking for an autonomous role, where you can continue to help shape the future of our community same day services?

Are you passionate about helping avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and caring for and treating our patients in their place of residence?

Are you interested in joining us as a Specialist Practitioner (SP)?

This key role provides high quality care for people in crisis and need intervention within a 24 hour period and prevent hospital admission (where safe to do so). Deliver patient care within the patients place of residence, Same Day Care Emergency Units in Abingdon, Witney and Henley and help triage urgent referrals into our Single Point Access (SPA).

The role provides the successful clinician with a rare opportunity to work within our community services to test, inform and finesse the continued development of our same day care services within the community.

Our same day services currently operate on a shift basis working over seven (7) days a week 8am to 8pm, so flexible working into the evenings, over some weekends and bank holidays will be required. We are open to flexible and part time hours and the post is available part-time (minimum 30 hours per week) or full-time (37.5 hours per week).

(This role is subject to job evaluation and therefore some duties may change)

Main duties of the job

Working with a high degree of autonomy, the post holder will:-

manage undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions by using, developing and consolidating advanced clinical skills within their own sphere of competence.

support decisions regarding patient treatment and management following a comprehensive telephone triage.

provide holistic patient care, in both a base unit and the patient’s residence, from assessment of presenting condition through to diagnosis, initial treatment and discharge, including the prescribing and administration of medication.

work collaboratively within the wider multidisciplinary team and with external providers, to ensure the right care is provided, by the right person, at the right time and in the right place.

provide a rapid respond to people in crisis situations with the aim of enabling individuals to maintain or regain independence and prevent unnecessary hospital admission.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Oxford Health Foundation Trust is part of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire integrated care system (BOB), and Oxon Urgent Community Response service was a recognised national accelerator site in the Ageing Well Programme in development of new NHS Urgent Community Response services.

You will help play a key role in continuing to help people manage their long-term conditions, making sure they receive the right kind of support to help them remain independent and live longer and linking in with our healthcare and charity based colleagues in the wider community.

You will be working alongside our Community Nursing and Therapy Teams, South Central Ambulance Service, General Practice and Oxford University Hospital colleagues with the opportunity to work across many facets of Community services.

Person specification

Skills

• Advanced assessment skills
• Awareness of long term plan and ageing well agenda
• robust IT skills
• Ability to manage competing demands
• Evidence of complex patient management

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse or Allied Healthcare Professional inc paramedic
• Post Registration Qualification in advanced clinical assessment skills e.g. Advanced history taking and examination or Frailty (comprehensive geriatric assessment)
• V300 or willingness to undertake
• Mentorship qualification or teaching or equivalent

Experience

• Competent in using Evidence Based Practice
• Experience in advanced assessment of patients
• Autonomous clinical practice
• Community experience/ home visiting
• Consolidated prescribing experience
• Flexible, adaptable and willing to change with the evolving service
• Confident in practice and ability to manage challenging situations
• Ability to motivate colleagues and team
• Committed to ongoing personal and professional development
• Coaching skills
• Awareness of national agendas and how they impact the applicant and service
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing