Senior Community Practitioner- Intensive Home

7 months ago


Burnley, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed Senior Community Practitioner with strong clinical leadership and facilitation skills has arisen to join the Intensive Home Support Service.

The post holder will be required to proactively case manage high risk patients with chronic long-term conditions and complex health and social needs to avoid unnecessary hospital admission across Pennine Lancashire. Working closely with an integrated neighbourhood team, primary care services and local GP practices.

The post holder will provide advanced clinical assessment, needs identification, planning, case management and co-ordination of care for people with long term conditions who have highly complex needs and co-morbidities.

The post holder will work towards advanced professional practice including medicines management, leadership, improving mental health and promoting a self-care management model. The post-holder will promote partnership working to improve outcomes for patients with co-morbidity & long-term conditions in order to reduce unplanned hospital admissions, reduce length of stay, facilitate seamless transition of care and provide post discharge support to prevent avoidable readmission to hospital.

The post holder will be on a rotational contract covering a number of shift patterns including nights, supporting the services operational hours which are 24/7, 365 days per year.

Co-ordinate comprehensive programmes of care that promote health gains, reduce risks to health and well-being, short term and long term and maximise independence of client and patient with co-morbidity long term conditions. This will include:
- Health and social assessment e.g. medical history, clinical examination, diagnosis, exercising independent prescribing in accordance with appropriate legislation and ELHT protocols.

Co-ordinate care and treatment to avoid fragmentation, duplication and delay in the least intensive setting appropriate to the client’s needs.

Act as a first point of contact for identified patients with an acute episode, triaging calls and offering telephone advice, home visit, or referring on to other appropriate professional/service.

Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries e.g. Health, social Care, voluntary and Independent sector.

Identify and critically appraise contemporary evidence, develop and promote best practice, ensuring strong professional leadership.

In liaison with the Locality Lead, clinically evaluate issues raised following complaints/ incident reports to establish systems and disseminate lessons learnt.

Ensure that all clinical records are maintained at the standard required by ELHT and GP practice, identifying assessments made, treatments given and course of action planned.

Ensure the service is delivered in line with local policies relating to Health and Safety and Infection Control.

Established in 2003, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute and community healthcare for the people in Pennine Lancashire.

The organisation puts safety and quality at the heart of everything we do, invests in and develops its workforce, works with key stakeholders to develop effective partnerships and encourages innovation and pathway reform to deliver best practice.

We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

The Intensive Home Support Service provides a supportive environment and provides staff with many professional development opportunities

For more information about the advertised role and main job duties/ responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.



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