Senior Clinical Assessor

An opportunity for 2.7 WTE registered clinical practitioners has arisen to join the Digital Care Hub team to support the delivery of the new Virtual Ward service across Bradford Districts and Craven. The Digital Care Hub provides video and telephone support to approximately 25,000 patients living in their own homes and in nursing and residential care.

The Hub is a 24/7 service, with the aim of supporting patients in their own place of residence where it is clinically safe to do so, reducing the number of unnecessary attendances at A&E and unplanned admissions.

The service is rapidly expanding and as such we need additional staff to offer greater support to the new innovations in our work.

Applicants will need to have an innovative and flexible approach to work and be receptive to the changes that occur as part of this evolving service.

We are looking for health care professionals, working at band 6 level, who are interested in new ways of working and are keen to be part of both the new Virtual Ward and wider Digital Care Hub services. Working in the Digital Care Hub provides opportunities for professional development, including non-medical prescribing.
- Provides high quality, evidence based remote clinical assessment, establishing a plan of care for patients accessing services in the DCH in accordance with Trust guidelines and protocols.
- Supports and provides care for palliative/ end of life patients and their family/carers who access the Goldline service via telephone.
- Participates in the provision of early intervention with appropriate assessment, observation and treatment for patients, tilises clinical assessment and observational skills.
- Ensures timely responses to all remote monitoring alerts.
- Works with individual care plans to provide personalised care for all patients, referring to other services as required.
- Works in collaboration with acute, primary care and community teams in the management of sick patients.
- Participates in practice development programmes and assists with the audit and evaluation of clinical standards.
- Participates in the in-service training, preceptorship and supervision of junior staff, post-basic course nurses and students (or AHP as appropriate), with a commitment to self-development.
- Develops good Trust wide working relationships and communicates effectively with nursing colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Promotes quality care and non-discriminatory practice as outlined in Trust Policies and Procedures, acknowledging a patient’s personal beliefs and identity

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

For further details and full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification attached.