Extended Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

Do you have specialist skills in working with adults living with frailty? Would you like to contribute to leading the development of virtual frailty wards? If you have said yes, we'd like to hear form you!

We are recruiting for a Band 7 Extended Clinical Practitioner, who will be a Registered Adult Nurses/Allied Health Professional and have access to their own vehicle and be able to drive for work purposes.

The New Forest Frailty Support Team service within Southern Health run a unique model of care to provide Urgent Community Responses and Virtual Wards. We support acutely unwell adults at home, who are experiencing a sudden decompensation in physical, psychological or social well being and are at risk of hospital admission. Our primary aim is to provide first class health care, in the home, giving our service users the choice to remain at home and recover more quickly.

Main duties of the job

While the majority of working days will be based in your usual location, there is some requirement to work flexibly from time to time from our other four bases. These are located in Fordingbridge, Eastleigh, Totton and Romsey. We provide a service to the older adults we work with 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00. Weekends are worked in rotation, approximately one in six, subject to the needs of the service.

Successful applicants will receive a comprehensive induction into the team and the trust. We have regular in-house training sessions and access to a wealth of internal training and external courses and conferences to maintain your clinical skills and develop you academically. Enhanced clinical practitioners will be emerging clinical leaders who are also involved in education, research and service development.

The team has service improvement and development embedded at its very core. As a team member you will be encouraged to help us shape and develop the care that we provide to people who access our service and their families.

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

Lymington New Forest Hospital

Wellworthy Road

Lymington

Hampshire

SO41 8QD

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

Lymington New Forest Hospital

Wellworthy Road

Lymington

Hampshire

SO41 8QD

Employer's website

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

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