Clinical Coordinator

The Richmond Response and Rehabilitation Team provides a lively multi-disciplinary service for adults with acute physical conditions, living in the affluent residential district of Richmond, bordering the River Thames.

The clinical coordinator will offer clinical triage of all referrals into the service. This role may range from clinical decision making, signposting referrals/communicating with external agencies, making a direct referral or offering clinical advice.

The post holder will work with the senior clinical co-ordinator screening referrals to ensuring they follow the correct pathway (D2A, Rapid Response and Community Rehab). The role ensures the delivery of a person-centred hospital discharge, crisis response and recovery support services for Adults with physical disabilities and Older People.

The clinical coordinator will support the senior clinical coordinator to ensure that all referrals to RRRT are triaged and managed appropriately within agreed time scales.

You will need to be a professionally qualified AHP, paramedic or registered nurse with significant experience in the community sector.

You will need excellent communication and organisational skills and be scrupulous about documentation.

Above all, you will need to passionate about improving outcomes for patients.

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It is personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. Its the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.

Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. Its simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were namedBest Place to Work for Employee Satisfactionby the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

Post Holders employed to work in any clinical roles are required to demonstrate they have received the full course of COVID vaccination including any recommended booster doses.

For further details please see attached the full Job Description and person specification for the full outline of the job responsibilities.