Join a brand new service
Urgent Community Response is a new service coming to the South of Nottinghamshire. It is designed to help patients stay out of hospital and use the latest systems and technology to provide the most efficient and effective health care possible via a 2-hour response to patients who are experiencing a sudden deterioration in their health and wellbeing.
The team enables individuals to increase independence and improve health outcomes by designing programs for recovery and self-care management through timely assessments, interventions, rehabilitation and management of long-term and life limiting conditions working in collaboration with the patient, their carer, and other statutory and voluntary organisations/agencies and are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients – together we all make a difference.
The service operates 7 days a week from 8am to 8pm.
Why choose us?
As part of the South Unit of Management family and this new venture, you can expect to be supported by your colleagues in work, supported to extend your clinical reasoning and practical clinical skills to enhance your career and have your talent nurtured.
We acknowledge personal and work commitments is sometimes difficult to manage, and we will support people to achieve the right work – life balance through flexible working in a variety of full and part time roles which aim to maintain the health and wellbeing of our workforce.
You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities, and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits Nottinghamshire Healthcare offer:
- Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with Agenda for Change terms and conditions)
- Pension scheme
- Flexible working and job share opportunities
- Promotion of a health work life balance
- Salary sacrifice schemes e.g., public transport loans, cycle schemes
- Staff discount schemes e.g., discounted leisure centre membership
- Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
- An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
- Support for carers
The vacancies
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Salary: Band 8A £47,126 - £53,219 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
This exciting role will enable you to utilise advanced clinical skills to shape the provision of care and develop the service and lead the field in delivery of urgent care in south Nottingham and beyond, fostering collaborative partnerships.
You will need to demonstrate your passion and clinical ability to assess patients who present with significant physical health care needs or deterioration in their physical health, as well as provide clinical leadership and senor clinical advice to the Urgent Community Response team, ensuring the team provide clinical excellence in the delivery of high-quality patient centred care. Additionally, you will analyse and develop treatment plans, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework providing compassionate, realistic, and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families.
For further information and to apply for this post please click here.
Urgent Community Response Clinical Assessor
Salary: Band 6 £32,306 - £39,027 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
You will work in a large and supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of excellent patient care and innovation. Providing clinical triage and navigation, urgent response assessments and facilitation of discharge from the acute provider, focusing on the hospital avoidance agenda, discharge to assess and 2-hour/2-day guidelines and promoting flow through the system.
In this role you will manage a caseload of patients with moderate to complex needs with supervision and guidance as necessary from more senior clinical staff. You will analyse and development treatment plans and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, modifying as necessary, and taking a key lead role as indicated. You will also undertake both holistic assessment of health and social care needs and top to toe physical health checks, incorporating the use of a stethoscope, percussion, and palpation techniques, undertaking review of systems and documenting findings to share with the multidisciplinary team to inform into the diagnostic process.
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Reablement Registered Therapist (Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist)
Salary: Band 6 £32,306 - £39,027 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
As a Reablement Registered Therapist, you will work within the Integrated Community Team and provide services in complex community rehabilitation, short term rehabilitation, crisis management and long-term conditions management. You will offer your own knowledge and experience in rehabilitation, attend regular therapy meetings, and undertake joint therapy assessments and treatment sessions with members of the multidisciplinary team, where appropriate. Rehabilitation will be delivered to patients in the community with a focus on improving health and wellbeing and preventing hospital admission.
Applicants should hold BSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy and be registered with the HCPC. You should have post-qualification experience and recent specialist experience of working with clients with long term conditions, falls, neurology and health care of the elderly conditions.
Apply for this post if you are a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
Community Rehabilitation Assistant
Salary: Band 3 £20,330 - £21,777 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
You will work within the Urgent Community Response Service within the South Unit of Management, under the direction of a registered professional and part of a supportive multidisciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus on delivering excellent patient centred care and innovation. Providing care to patients within a community setting, who require rehabilitation support to enable them to carry out activities of daily living in order to maintain them within their own home environment.
This could be the role for you, and we would love to hear from you if you can demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings. You will enjoy supporting our patients within a community setting that enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs to avoid and reduce hospital admissions by implementing patient tailored rehabilitation, nursing care and exercise programmes. You should demonstrate high levels of care and compassion, and enjoy working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework to analyse and development treatment plans, whilst providing compassionate, realistic, and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families.