Community Practitioner

Working autonomously as a highly skilled Practitioner, the post holder will have responsibility for reactively monitoring/managing patients, recognising early symptoms of disease exacerbation, acute illness & injuries based on the understanding of long-term conditions, disease processes, current evidence & practice standards.. The key aim of the service is prevention of inappropriate hospital admission/readmission.

Post involves liaising with health/social care providers & other agencies to ensure provision of high quality crisis support to this group of patients/carers. Post-holders will also forge strong links with the clinical triage and ISPA team, community hub, CIAT and Rapid Response Teams as well as PCN's within the locality.

The Community Practitioner service operates over 7 days a week, covering the hours of 08.00-20.00hrs across the Hartlepool and Stockton localities.

The Community Practitioner service is a team of highly skilled advanced nurse/AHP practitioners working within Care Group 1 of the Trust (Healthy Lives). The practitioners are hold the Non Medical Prescribing qualification.

The practitioner deliver reactive & proactive interventions to people residing in care homes across the Hartlepool & Stockton CCG area.

The key focus of this team is to ensure that people are cared for in their own home environments & that hospital admission is prevented where possible.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”

The community practitioner team will deliver reactive & proactive interventions to people residing across the Hartlepool & Stockton CCG area with a particular focus on those patients referred under the 2 hour community crisis response.

The key focus of this team is to ensure that people are supported and cared for in their own home environments & that hospital admission is prevented where possible.