Consultant Practitioner

Job summary

We are seeking a Consultant Practitioner experienced in Frailty & Rehabilitation to join our service, based in Petersfield Community Hospital. The service delivers a step up, and step-down rehabilitation facility for the SE Hampshire population. . Our aim is to provide individualized care tailored to the patients' needs, whilst promoting individuality and independence. We support patients and families with complex decisions around discharge plans and destinations. The service works in conjunction with the Virtual Ward and the Urgent Community Response service within Portsmouth & SE Division, as well as the Community Assessment Units whose focus is to support patients with frailty who are residing at home.

The Consultant Practitioner will, provide senior leadership to the team of Ward Specialty Doctors and be responsible for providing autonomous clinical expertise and leadership as part of a committed multidisciplinary team working around the needs of our patients.

The Consultant Practitioner will be required to provide clinical advice and guidance regarding the management of specific patient cases and will provide medical oversight for all patients within their care. The wards at Petersfield Community Hospital have on average 60 admissions per month, with an average length of stay of 21 days. We work closely with the acute sector in Portsmouth Hospitals where Southern Health host a Re-ablement & Flow team to support the realisation of "next patient, to the next available bed."

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work automatously to:

Establish values based professional expert and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, organisations, and system working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others.

Provide values-based leadership across the care pathway, services, and systems in complex and changing situations.

Develop staff potential, add to, and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.

Develop a 'knowledge-rich and inquiry' culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.

Establishing expertise across the system and nationally by using consultancy approaches and opportunities that have maximum impact on practice, services, communities, and populations, and which add to and sustain workforce capacity and capability.

The post is divided into 5 domains:

*Expert level practice

*Strategic and Enabling leadership

*Learning, developing, and improving across the system

*Research and innovation

*Consultancy Approaches

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

As a Trust, our footprint spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities.

- We function as a unified team, placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

- Our 7,000+ workforce is skilled and diverse, with a deep commitment to ongoing staff development. We offer customised training, leadership pathways, and a plethora of career opportunities.

- We respect and listen to your thoughts, ideas, and concerns via well-established network of staff groups to increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Building on all this, we are currently working closely with other local NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Our new organisation is set to launch in April 2024 and will incorporate Southern Health, Solent, Isle of Wight and Sussex Partnership Trusts.

While the new Trust will be substantially bigger, it will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, streamlining services and making healthcare across the county more accessible.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Petersfield Hospital

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3LB

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

Petersfield Hospital

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3LB

Employer's website

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

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