Clinical Assessor

**Clinical Assessor - Cornwall Onward Care**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Nurse Assessor

**Grade**
- Band 6

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (As part of 7 day rota)

**Job ref**
- 201-25-111-A

**Site**
- St Barnabas Hospital/ University Hospital Plymouth

**Town**
- Saltash/ Plymouth

**Salary**
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum/Pro Rata

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 01/05/2025 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Clinical Assessor, within the Cornwall Onward Care Team, based in Derriford Hospital. This person requires previous experience in patient flow.

An exciting opportunity to support patient flow from an acute hospital working alongside an experienced team.

The aim is to achieve a collaborative approach to hospital discharge and is to ensure that patients only stay in hospital for the time required to complete their acute treatment, and that, where necessary, they experience timely and seamless transfer of care to another setting.

The role requires assessment skills to identify the needs of the patient in a holistic manner and support setting realistic goals for discharge, within the MDT.

**Main duties of the job**:

- To ensure patient’s needs are assessed in a timely and effective way.
- To act as a link, liaising with other agencies and departments, to provide efficient and effective communication to expedite progress towards there onward care.
- Develop working relationships with ward teams to enable them to support flow across the acute trust.
- In collaboration with clinical teams, health and social care agencies, the Integrated Transfer of Care Hub in planning and managing the flow through the Acute trusts.
- Will contribute to follow up assessments, Care planning, identification of resources and service delivery in order to facilitate the appropriate and timely discharge of patients.
- Ability to work flexibly and proactively in response to the needs of the service, working across organisational boundaries (RCHT, CFT, Adult Social Care and Voluntary Sector).
- To use highly developed communication skills effectively in complex and potentially challenging situations.
- Be responsible for guidance, teaching and support other staff as appropriate.
- To act as an advocate to patients and families/carers.
- Takes active responsibility in the resolution of minor or potential conflict. Liaising with senior staff as appropriate.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautif