Overview
Contract Type: Full-time, Flexible working
Salary: a year inclusive of 5% High Cost Area allowance per annum pro rata
Partner Org: Central Surrey Health
Job summary
The Urgent Community Response(UCR) Team aspires to provide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. There is the flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation and you are able to work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty whilst working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across Northwest Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System. The teams are commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include urgent case management and hospital admission avoidance, where the focus of the role is to lead the identification and clinical assessment of patients who will benefit from advanced complex hospital discharge care, or urgent responsive admission avoidance using the Virtual Ward if required, with care provided in their own home by the multi-disciplinary team.
Please note we do NOTÂ offer UKVI sponsorship, all applicants require right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
A To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary UCR team.
To undertake assessments, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients including telephone triage, multi-factorial falls assessments, and patients who may require crisis management and/or rehabilitation interventions to prevent acute hospital admissions and to support complex hospital discharges. These patients often have complex presentations.
To provide a fast reactive service for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment and care planning to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions
Work as an autonomous practitioner the post holder will undertake a complex and varied clinical workload and be an expert in rehabilitation within the home and other community settings as required.
The post holder will clinically manage and supervise Nurses, senior community rehab assistants, and students and support other clinical colleagues in the team as required. This will include supporting learning and other development activities.
The post holder will take a lead role in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the service on a day-to-day basis, whilst working closely together with other internal and external stakeholders.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys longest established NHS community services provider, so our employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues’ voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
