Job overview

CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!

We are looking for a Band 6 Frailty Nurse or Paramedic to join our supportive and dedicated team within unplanned care.

Unplanned Care provides multidisciplinary services and includes Discharge to Assess Therapy Teams, Early Intervention Vehicle, Frailty Hospital at Home, Rapid Response and Overnight Nursing. The post will be aligned with one service, primarily, but staff within Unplanned Care work flexibly across services as required.

You will deliver high-quality, short-term care programmes for adults referred to the Frailty Hospital at Home service across West Hertfordshire. You will provide care in patients’ own homes, supporting those with acute health needs, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and enabling timely discharge from urgent care settings.

You will use your specialist skills and knowledge to holistically assess needs and provide clinical treatments based on evidence-based practice. To supplement generic health services when acute, or concentrated nursing care and/or therapy intervention is required.

As this is a community-based role, with travel between patient homes, there is a requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Main duties of the job

• To assess referrals made to the service, prioritise, and respond according to priority, as appropriate both in terms of level and urgency.
• To use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho-social needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with patient/carers and the wider Multidisciplinary Team as needed.
• To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients’ ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing, and arranging necessary supportive packages.
• To provide evidenced based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on ‘best practice’, to improve health outcomes and promote choice.
• To work in close collaboration with all other community agencies including staff working within the Community Adult Health Services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification:

Experience

Essential

• Substantial B5 Experience
• Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with long term conditions
• Extensive range of clinical skills and experience
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

• Experience of supervising staff and completing appraisals

Key Attributes

Essential

• Able to carry out the duties of the post with or without adaptions.
• Able to work flexible shifts
• Able to work across the four neighbourhoods which make up South West Hertfordshire.
• Requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless the candidate has a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC/HCPC registered with current valid registration

Desirable

• Experience of working in Community Services
• Physical Clinical Assessment Skills Course or willingness to undertake the course.
• Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with Long Term Conditions

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to make decisions and prioritise actions
• Ability to manage own workload and plan the workload of others, to work autonomously
• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email
• Clinical knowledge across a range of long term and enduring conditions
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice and able to implement in practice

Desirable

• Knowledge of clinical governance processes, assessing and managing risk
• Knowledge of current NHS organisational structures and policy initiatives