Job summary
6 month Secondment - commencing November 2024
Our General Acute Medicine and Frailty Virtual Ward is a new and innovative service, that has an agreed admission criteria and works in partnership with supporting care services to deliver acute care in the patient's own home. The aim of a virtual ward is to reduce length of acute hospital stay and/or avoid hospital admission; this leads to quicker recovery and reduces disruption to patients', and their carers' lives. This means we can proactively manage people living with frailty at home, and for those that have a sub-acute episode we can improve a patient's experience and outcomes. In addition, this means we have more space in our hospitals for acutely unwell patients and reduces the pressure on urgent care.
We have an exciting opportunity to support our Supported Early Discharge Pathways from the Acute Trust into Virtual Wards, working as a Senior Liaison Practitioner, joining our current team within Royal Stoke & County Hospital.
Main duties of the job
This 6 month secondment is designed to support the safe transfer of care from Acute Hospital wards, portals and departments into a Virtual Ward. Working closely with the Virtual Ward Matrons to deliver Case Management, Bed Management and Acuity Management of the patients suitable for Supported Early Discharge. Predominantly working across both Royal Stoke and County Hospital sites.
The role is to act as the Senior Advanced Liaison Practitioner between the Acute Trust and Virtual Wards, in a "pull" function, to ensure the correct utilisation of Virtual Ward beds.
Identifying suitable patients who may need ongoing Virtual care within their own homes, reviewing clinical diagnostics and decision making to ensure the safe transfer of care. Ensuring Medical Management plans are appropriate and in place for discharge.
A vital aspect of this role will be to engage with, educate and empower hospital staff to identify suitable patients who meet the criteria for Virtual Ward care.
Applicants will need the approval of their managers to be released from November 2024 into this post
For further information please contact Lesley Roberts 0300 123 0983 or Lesley.roberts2@uhnm.nhs.uk
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level.
- Evidence of higher level study at Masters Level; Alternatively working knowledge and experience at an equivalent level1
- Current HCPC Registration
- Current NMC Registration first level Nurse essential
- Physical Health Assessment Qualification or equivilant
- Leadership and Management Qualification
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
- Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments.
- Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas
- Experience and/or qualifications in the specific area Organisational Development
- Safeguarding level 1-3 for Adults
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates negotiating, persuasive, motivational, reassurance skills; gives formal presentations
- Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge of working in an Acute Trust or Community Service, underpinned by theory and experience
- Experience of providing highly specialised advice concerning care; being accountable for direct delivery of sub -division of a clinical, clinical technical or social care service
- Experience of working across boundaries to develop networks with key stakeholders
- Experience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
- Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals
- Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- Ability to work as part of the wider team
- The ability to integrate theory and practice through the effective development and delivery of learning programmes and events which take full account of relevant learning methodologies, principles and paradigms
- Experience of facilitating staff engagement interventions with groups of staff or teams
- Good influencing and networking skills
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
- Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
- Ability to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
- Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
Desirable
- Experience of managing budgets and approval of expenditure
- Broad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi system environment
- Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Positive mindset in respect of Supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
- Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self -regulation
- Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
- Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
- Works with patients and people at the fore -operates to a customer service ethos
- Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
- Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating
- Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
- Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level.
- Evidence of higher level study at Masters Level; Alternatively working knowledge and experience at an equivalent level1
- Current HCPC Registration
- Current NMC Registration first level Nurse essential
- Physical Health Assessment Qualification or equivilant
- Leadership and Management Qualification
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
- Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments.
- Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas
- Experience and/or qualifications in the specific area Organisational Development
- Safeguarding level 1-3 for Adults
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates negotiating, persuasive, motivational, reassurance skills; gives formal presentations
- Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge of working in an Acute Trust or Community Service, underpinned by theory and experience
- Experience of providing highly specialised advice concerning care; being accountable for direct delivery of sub -division of a clinical, clinical technical or social care service
- Experience of working across boundaries to develop networks with key stakeholders
- Experience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
- Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals
- Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- Ability to work as part of the wider team
- The ability to integrate theory and practice through the effective development and delivery of learning programmes and events which take full account of relevant learning methodologies, principles and paradigms
- Experience of facilitating staff engagement interventions with groups of staff or teams
- Good influencing and networking skills
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
- Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
- Ability to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
- Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
Desirable
- Experience of managing budgets and approval of expenditure
- Broad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi system environment
- Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Positive mindset in respect of Supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
- Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self -regulation
- Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
- Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
- Works with patients and people at the fore -operates to a customer service ethos
- Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
- Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating
- Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
- Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
