Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received so may closed before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible
The Clinical Practitioner in Urgent Community Response will act as a generalist ‘expert’ and exercise their clinical expertise in the long-term conditions (LTC’s) including frailty, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care to deliver the Urgent Community Response Model
Work closely with 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.
Work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations and initiating appropriate holistic, best evidenced based treatment with the development of a personalised clinical management plan, including independent prescribing.
Ensure the patient is placed at the center of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.
All staff, workers, volunteers, students and individuals undertaking work experience/shadowing, irrespective of the role they specifically undertake, are required to adhere to BCHC’s vision, values, and professional standards. This also involves working with and alongside colleagues and partners, demonstrating a duty of Candour (i.e., honesty and straightforwardness), openness and accountability in order to achieve high quality and the best possible care outcomes for our patients, service users and the local community.
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDR’s.
Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.
Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.
Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation.
Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits
Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis.
Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.
