Lead Practitioner

Are you passionate about making a difference to individuals and their families lives? Do you have strong values on inclusion and wellbeing? Then We would love to hear from you

Hampshire, Southampton, IOW and Portsmouth CCG’s have recently merged to become an Integrated Care system and are responsible for commissioning and enabling the delivery of high-quality patient centred, personalised care and support which is innovative, equitable, efficient, effective and, where possible, prevention based. We are offering an exciting opportunity to join an organisation that really does make a difference for people, help improve health services within our area and work with inspirational and professional people.

An exciting opportunity

We are seeking a dynamic individual to work alongside the Specialist Complex Pathways Operational Manager.

The Lead Practitioner will work as an autonomous practitioner with a variable caseload of complex patients within a multi-disciplinary team structure. They will work alongside the Hospital Discharge teams in the Single Point of Access (SPoA), medical and therapy teams, Older Persons Mental Health, health and social care community services, and GPs to ensure, every patient identified with a standalone health need and diagnosed with delirium during their acute admission, receives the most appropriate care in the most appropriate setting. A large part of this role will be around the discharge pathway.

Bring your knowledge and core values

Use your professional experience.

The applicant will be a Registered Health Professional and have experience of line managing staff. The applicant must be educated to degree/working towards a degree and experience working in an acute and/ or a community based setting. Furthermore, the applicant must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy, NHS Continuing Healthcare and recent changes to NHS Hospital Discharge Guidance and policy.

We offer excellent benefits for our staff including generous leave arrangements, NHS pension scheme, local retail discounts, flexible working opportunities, training and development and a commitment to our own staff health and wellbeing, including access to an Employee Assistance Programme.

This role may entail some travel across the ICS, and a hybrid model of working (from home and office based when required).

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

- 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
- NHS pension scheme
- Sick pay policy
- Occupational health services including staff counselling services
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
- Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.

The Specialist Complex pathway will enable patients who fall outside of the frameworks of NHS Continuing Healthcare, MHA Section117 Aftercare that have

Clinical needs which require intervention and or delegation from a registered professional,

Joint funding with the local authority (non-LD)

Or with an acute diagnosis of Delirium,

To receive the best care in the most appropriate setting for their needs.

This innovative pathway will enable patients the opportunity to be discharged from Acute hospitals whilst still experiencing symptoms. This discharge may be to their home with a tailored package of care, or to a residential setting on a temporary assessment basis. The Lead Practitioner will oversee and advocate for this process from referral onto and discharge from the pathway and ensure the team will assess, review and commission robust, safe and appropriate care packages for people (adults) referred to the pathway.