Community Practitioner - UCR Frailty Hospital at Home (UCRFHH)

Job description

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Are you a Community Practitioner with a broad range of clinical skills

Do you thrive in a busy, dynamic and rapidly revolving service and wish to develop you leadership skills?

If so, this role may be for you.

The Urgent Community Response Frailty Hospital at Home (UCR FH@H) team delivers hospital-level urgent and same-day responses to people in their usual place of residence following a sudden deterioration in their health or condition. This could be a one-off visit or a short episode of care, delivered through multidisciplinary team working and working collaboratively with other community services. The timely responses and high level of holistic assessment and effective clinical interventions reduce the need for unnecessary hospital conveyances or admissions and enable patients to remain at home where they recover best. The post holder will work with a range of professionals to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner. The post holder will be able to demonstrate their professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.

Main duties of the job
• The post holder will respond to clinically appropriate 0-2 hour and 2-24 hour community response referrals, alongside planned follow up visits across the breadth of the service, providing holistic assessment and delivering hospital level treatments and care in the patient's usual place of residence.
• Assess physical and psycho-social needs and provide interventions tailored to meet the needs of the individual based on best available evidence
• To improve health outcomes using profession based skills and knowledge

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