Band 7 Clinical Practitioner – Urgent Community Response Team

Band 7 Clinical Practitioner – Urgent Community Response Team

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

The Clinical Practitioner in Urgent Community Response will act as a generalist 'expert' and exercise their clinical expertise in long-term conditions (LTC's) including frailty, levels of judgement, discretion, and decision making in clinical care to deliver the Urgent Community Response Model.

Main duties of the job

1. Work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary workforce in primary, community, and secondary care to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention, and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care in the right setting.
2. Work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, and developing a personalised clinical management plan, including independent prescribing.

Job responsibilities

1. Be highly visible in the clinical area to enable a high quality responsive service including out of hours working.
2. Be resilient and flexible to service demands to enable a high quality responsive enhanced care service, including out of hours working.
3. Contribute and where appropriate lead the development of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and team objectives for the area of expertise.
4. Act as a role model of standards for behaviour and professions, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures within role and workplace.
5. Contribute to local networks and specialty specific groups, working in partnership with other key professionals.

Person Specification

Shortlisting

• Advanced clinical practice skills
• Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
• Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
• Clinical examination skills

Qualifications/Training

• Registered first level nurse or equivalent professional registration e.g. HCPC
• MSc or equivalent level knowledge/experience in relevant area
• Clinical supervision training and experience
• Extended/independent nurse or specialist

Experience

• Recent primary and community/nursing/therapeutic experience
• Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments, and injuries
• Nurse-led triage
• Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
• Clinical Leadership
• Audit
• Research
• Non-medical prescribing
• Ability to work across boundaries

Skills/Knowledge

• Management of patients with long-term conditions
• Management of patients with complex needs
• Clinical examination skills
• Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service
• Local and national health policy
• Clinical governance issues in primary care
• Patient group directions and associated policy
• Knowledge of quality standards & adherence to NICE guidelines, CQUINs
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• Proven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
• Clinical leadership skills

Personal Qualities

• Clinical leadership skills
• Communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
• Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• Change management
• Teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
• Resource management

Other Job Requirements

• Highly motivated
• Flexibility
• Team player
• Ability to work across boundaries
• Agile working, car driver with access to own transport

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.