Extended Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

The 2023 Skills for Health, Health Heroes winners, Urgent Community Response / Virtual Ward team are seeking an enthusiastic and forward thinking Extended Clinical Practitioner to join our team. This is an exciting new role for nurse or AHP who excels in clinical practice.

The primary focus of the role is to work as an extended clinical practitioner focusing 100% clinically in the assessment and review of acutely unwell adults in their own homes advanced, autonomous practitioner providing patient-centred clinical care, encompassing the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Main duties of the job

As an extended clinical practitioner you will assess and treat people with a range of acute conditions alongside long-term conditions that place them at high risk of hospital admissions. You will implement a person-centered plan (including rehabilitation) to enable that person to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life.

The role allows you to implement a breadth of interventions, while having the support of consultant & advanced clinical practitioners from and health care support workers. This rewarding role allows you the time and scope to explore what's important for each person and work with them to improve their health and well-being.

It is a really exciting and dynamic way to work with people to support them to receive high quality, advanced level care in their own home. Urgent Community Response aims to deliver holistic and specialist care to people who are at risk of hospital admission. We welcome you to look at our patient and loved one feedback about the team and the service on the digital Care Opinion feedback platform searching; urgent community response Mid Hampshire

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unit 2 Wessex Business Park

Wessex Way, Colden Common

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 1WP

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unit 2 Wessex Business Park

Wessex Way, Colden Common

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 1WP

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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