Job summary
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
The post holder will be based within the UCR Team , and working alongside the Virtual Ward team when required.
The post holder will be able to provide clinical expertise in Triage, and assessments across the Adult Community Services Division.
The Post holder will be expected to participate in working with secondary care, to identify and assess patients suitable for community services, and to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate early supportive discharge. The work will be undertaken collaboratively with Secondary and Primary Care, and Community Services, Early Intervention Community Teams (EICT), Urgent Care Bureau and other services deemed in scope.
Main duties of the job
1. Work in accordance with the NMC / HCPC Code of Practice
Assess, diagnose, prescribe, and manage a highly specialist adult patient caseload in a variety of settings, which will include assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning therapy programmes and discharge of patients.
2. Be conversant with all BCHC NHS FT policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented.
3. Ensure evidence-based care is practiced and promoted at all times.
4. Manage own time effectively and prioritise workload.
5. Facilitate teaching and supervision for less experienced members of staff.
6. Promote health by collaborative working with patients and their relatives.
7. Provide support to the multidisciplinary team to enable patients to make better choices for their health and that of their families, undertaking health promotion and contributing to the prevention of adverse effects to health and wellbeing.
8. Act as a role model to and facilitate others to respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of patients: involving them in shared decision making and obtaining consent prior to all interventions.
9. Safeguard individuals from abuse by reporting any incidents involving potential or actual abuse and acting upon concerns immediately.
10. Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to care.
About us
All staff, workers, volunteers, students and individuals undertaking work experience/shadowing, irrespective of the role they specifically undertake, are required to adhere to BCHC's vision, values, and professional standards. This also involves working with and alongside colleagues and partners, demonstrating a duty of Candour (i.e., honesty and straightforwardness), openness and accountability in order to achieve high quality and the best possible care outcomes for our patients, service users and the local community.
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDRs.
2. Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staffs perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.
3. Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.
4. Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation.
5. Participate in the recruitment, selection, and retention of staff.
6. Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits
7. Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis.
8. Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDRs.
2. Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staffs perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.
3. Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.
4. Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation.
5. Participate in the recruitment, selection, and retention of staff.
6. Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits
7. Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis.
8. Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
- Registered first level nurse or equivalent professional registration e.g. HCPC
- MSc or equivalent level knowledge/ experience in relevant area
- Relevant nursing/health degree
- Mentor/teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Extended/independent nurse or specialist
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.
- Nurse-led management of minor illness,minor ailments and injuries
- Nurse-led triage
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Clinical Leadership
- Audit
- Research
- Non-medical prescribing
Skills /knowledge
Essential
- Advanced clinical practice skills Management of patients with long-term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Clinical examination skills
- Accountability of own role and other rolesin a nurse-led service
- Local and national health policy
- Wider health economy
- Clinical governance issues in primary care
- Patient group directions and associatedpolicy
Personal qualities
Essential
- Clinical leadership skills
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proven listening and counselling skillswith the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
- Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Change management
- Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
- Resource management
Other job requorements
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner
- Highly motivated
- Flexibility
- Enthusiasm
- Team player
- Ability to work across boundaries
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
- Registered first level nurse or equivalent professional registration e.g. HCPC
- MSc or equivalent level knowledge/ experience in relevant area
- Relevant nursing/health degree
- Mentor/teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Extended/independent nurse or specialist
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.
- Nurse-led management of minor illness,minor ailments and injuries
- Nurse-led triage
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Clinical Leadership
- Audit
- Research
- Non-medical prescribing
Skills /knowledge
Essential
- Advanced clinical practice skills Management of patients with long-term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Clinical examination skills
- Accountability of own role and other rolesin a nurse-led service
- Local and national health policy
- Wider health economy
- Clinical governance issues in primary care
- Patient group directions and associatedpolicy
Personal qualities
Essential
- Clinical leadership skills
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proven listening and counselling skillswith the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
- Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Change management
- Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
- Resource management
Other job requorements
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner
- Highly motivated
- Flexibility
- Enthusiasm
- Team player
- Ability to work across boundaries
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).
