Specialist Practitioner - Nurse, AHP, Paramedic

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Banbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Learning & development

Annual leave

NHS Discount

Pension scheme

Lease car

Cycle to work

EAP

MHFA

Staff accommodation

Staff networks

Job summary

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an autonomous clinician to join our community same-day care service. You will respond to health and social care crises at patients' homes to help maintain independence and prevent hospital admissions.

The post offers flexible hours, with part-time (minimum 30 hours) or full-time (37.5 hours) options and requires a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work. Collaboration with nursing, therapy, and primary care teams is expected.

Qualifications

• Full valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Flexible/part-time or full-time hours.
• Ability to work autonomously in urgent community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide rapid response to health and social care crises at home.
• Support long-term condition management to help independence.
• Collaborate with Community Nursing, Therapy Teams, and partners.
• Manage undifferentiated conditions with advanced clinical skills.
• Support decisions after telephone triage.
• Deliver holistic care from assessment to discharge, including meds.
• Coordinate care with MDT and external providers.

Skills

Autonomy

Clinical assessment

Telephone triage

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Prescribing meds

Home visits

Tools

Vehicle for work

Job description

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?

This key role within our urgent community response service supports provision of high quality care for people experiencing immediate health and care crisis and needing intervention at home to prevent hospital admission (where safe to do so).

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

Our same day care 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).

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Working With a High Degree Of Autonomy To

• Provide a rapid respond to people in health and social care crisis situations with the aim of enabling individuals to maintain or regain independence and prevent unnecessary hospital admission.
• 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.
• Work 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.
• 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, within 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.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board alongside Buckinghamshire and Berkshire and provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages.

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
• Competitive pension scheme
• 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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Matt Cadby Job title: Operational Manager - Single Point of Access Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07770 331073

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don't meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.