Assistant Practitioner

Do you want to be part of a dynamic, exceptional, and innovative Community Urgent Rapid Response Service providing high quality care to patients in the Bassetlaw area?

The Community Urgent Rapid Response Team provides holistic person-centered care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating timely hospital discharges in a variety of ways. The team enables individuals to increase independence, improve health outcomes and reduce unnecessary admissions to hospital, long term care and minimizing social care packages, by designing programs for recovery and self-care management for the adult population of Bassetlaw.

This is achieved through timely assessment, interventions, rehabilitation, management of long-term and life limiting conditions, and partnership working across the health and social care communities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Practitioner to work within the Urgent Care Rapid Response Service provided by Local partnerships in Bassetlaw.

You will be providing support to the team Clinical Assessors to provide clinical triage and navigation, urgent response assessments and facilitation of discharge from the acute provider, focusing on the hospital avoidance agenda, discharge to assess and 2-hour/2-day guidelines and promoting flow through the system.

Working alongside our community health colleagues in other teams and acute trusts to support discharge and prevent hospital admission. You will work in a large and supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a strong identity and dedicated focus of excellent patient care and innovation.

You will liaise and coordinate services closely with other health and social care providers to enable recovery from illness, promote health and wellbeing and foster self-care.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The Community Urgent Rapid Response Team prides itself on setting the highest of standards of patient care. We lead the field in delivery of Urgent Care delivery in Bassetlaw and beyond and have worked hard to foster collaborative partnerships with local hospitals, EMAS, NHS111, GP's and our community nursing and therapy colleagues, along with Local Authorities and private providers.

The team is incredibly collaborative and compassionate. As a part of the team you can expect to be supported by your colleagues in your work, supported to extend your clinical reasoning and practical clinical skills to enhance your career and have your talent nurtured.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.