Overview
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: a year Inclusive of 5%HCA’s per annum pro rata
Partner Org: Central Surrey Health
Job summary
The Urgent CommunityResponse (UCR)Team provides a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service.The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic. 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 speciality whilst working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West 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.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with theUCRMatrons, therapists, Paramedics& OperationalLead for UCR,Community Nursing, Frailty GPs,AdultSocialCare, community servicesand the third sector to provide fast reactive services for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment, care planning to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriatewith a focus on the9 Common Critical Conditions-Falls;Decompensation of Frailty;Reduced Function/Decondition/reduced mobility;Urgent equipment provision,Confusion / Delirium,Palliative / EOL crisis support;Urgent Catheter Care,Urgent support fordiabetes;Unpaid Carer breakdown.
TheUCRclinician will provideexpertisewithin their professional discipline, to the wider team by providing case management using extending skills where appropriately trained to avoid hospital admission and manage sometimes complex clinical needs in the community setting.
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.
Please note we do NOT offer UKVI sponsorship
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