Clinical Supervisor

**The closing date is 12th Jan 2025**

**Anticipated Interview date(s) 07/01/2025**

**Job summary**:
Are you a Paramedic seeking a new opportunity? We have a Community Paramedic position available within the Rapid Response team, based at South Petherton Community Hospital

Our service covers the urban and rural areas of Somerset. Shifts include 8,6pm, 10,8pm or 1,11pm, 7-days a week, including Bank Holidays. We offer flexible working solutions where possible to ensure a work-life balance and part-time hours will be considered.

You'll need to be a car driver with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a generous mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation.

If you're a Paramedic looking for a rewarding challenge to advance your career, join our friendly, and highly skilled team of nurses, paramedics, therapists and pharmacy technicians.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
They will require excellent communication skills and can work in a multidisciplinary environment under pressure. As a Clinical Supervisor, you will oversee each shift, providing shift management and clinical support to a team of Nurses, Paramedics, Therapist's, Senior Healthcare Support Workers, Assistant Practitioners and students, and along with the Therapists, will have team responsibility for the caseload management of the patients.

Rapid Response is a service which aims to meet patients' urgent care needs at home by providing urgent clinical, therapy or support interventions to keep a patient in their place of residence, which is key in improving patient outcomes, preventing avoidable hospital admissions and delivering NHS strategic priorities.

The service is part of the Urgent Community Response agenda and will respond to a referral to meet the UCR national guidelines. Part of the UCR agenda is to respond to non-injured patients who have fallen within two hours of referral.

**About us**:
As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone

**Job description**:
The post holder will be a Registered Paramedic, with a broad general experience as a qualified professional.

A key part of the role will be to liaise closely with other agencies and discharge or transfer the patient to other community services to maintain patient flow and prevent avoidable hospital admissions. The service responds to patients through Primary care/Ambulance service/A+E and other health-care professionals. Rapid Response is part of the Urgent Community Response Agenda which means the team responds to referrals with a 2-hour response, this is part of the new Urgent Community Response agenda.

The service provides support across Somerset targeting key areas with high numbers of hospital admissions, and we have bases in Taunton, Bridgwater, South Petherton, and Mendip. You will be expected to work in an agile way, working across all areas, responding to assess patients as needed and support the junior staff as required.

Rapid Response Service

Rapid Response is a service which aims to meet patients' urgent care needs at home by providing urgent clinical, therapy or support interventions to keep a patient in their place of residence, which is key in improving patient outcomes, preventing avoidable hospital admissions and delivering NHS strategic priorities.

The service is part of the new Urgent Community Response agenda and will respond within two hours of a referral to meet the UCR national guidelines. Part of the UCR agenda is to respond to non-injured patients who have fallen within two hours of referral. In line with national rollout of the two-hour standard, the UCR service is provided 8am to 8pm, seven days a week across Somerset. The Rapid Response service is provided between 8am to 11pm. The UCR service requires the submission of data returns to the Community Services Data Set to demonstrate the achievement of the two-hour standard.

The team is made up of Admin, Healthcare Support Workers, Student Nurses/Occupational Therapists/Physio Therapists, Trainee Nursing Associates, Assistant Practitioners, Trainee Assistant Practitioners, Rehab Assistants, Paramedics, Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Physi