Urgent Community Response Practitioner

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust; Scredington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health trust in Lincolnshire is seeking an autonomous healthcare professional to join their Urgent Community Response team. The role involves delivering patient-centered care, assessing individuals' needs to avoid hospital admissions, and managing a clinical caseload. The successful candidate will need to be physically fit for handling tasks and possess a valid driving license for travel across the area. Flexible working opportunities are available.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Autonomous registered professional able to operate within the Urgent Community Response framework.
• Ability to work across multiple bases with a willingness to cover a range of shifts, including weekends.
• Valid driving license for daily travel across Lincolnshire.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient-centered care within the Urgent Community Response team.
• Independently assess patients referred into the service.
• Manage a clinical caseload of patients with complex needs.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Good physical fitness

Job description

Overview

The Urgent Community Response service is a key part of the integrated urgent care system for Lincolnshire by providing virtual and face to face assessment of patients in their own home experiencing an acute need that requires a 2 hour response.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to the existing multi-disciplinary team that is based across the county. The service runs 8-8, 365 days a year and there is a requirement to work a variety of shifts to cover opening hours, including weekend work. The successful post holder will be based at one of our bases (Lincoln, Boston, Spalding, Louth or Sleaford).

Responsibilities

• To work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner within the Urgent Community Response team delivering patient-centred care, with emphasis on assessment of need, coordination of services, and planning to enable individuals to avoid admission to the acute setting, ambulance call out or conveyance.
• To respond to people across Lincolnshire who require timely intervention and assessment of need and to liaise with other services to support patients to stay in their own home.
• Independently assess patients referred into the service using specialist assessment to determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated, and maintain records as an autonomous registered therapist within a variety of clinical settings.
• Use a wide range of skills and strategies to communicate with people about difficult matters or situations.
• Manage a clinical caseload of patients with complex and specialised needs to a high professional standard and seek guidance from senior colleagues when necessary.
• The role requires frequent moderate physical effort (e.g., moving and handling patients, mobile equipment, using hoists and other mechanical aids).
• Car driving daily, varying distances in urban and rural communities, including during adverse weather conditions.
• Flexible working opportunities to balance personal and service needs, including part-time, compressed hours, job shares and hybrid working models where arrangements meet service requirements.

Requirements

• Autonomous registered professional able to operate within the Urgent Community Response framework.
• Ability to work across multiple bases with a willingness to cover a range of shifts, including weekends.
• Good physical fitness for moving and handling tasks and use of assistive equipment.
• Strong communication skills for difficult conversations and multidisciplinary liaison.
• Valid driving license for daily travel across Lincolnshire.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.