Community Specialist Practitioner – Long Term Conditions
An experienced specialist clinician with advanced clinical skills, case management techniques and shared decision-making. Supports people meeting criteria that denote very high intensity use of health care services. With specialist intensive support, these service users can remain safely at home and have more choice about their health care. Case management is key for the support of people with long term conditions. Requires expert evidence based practitioner knowledge gained from extensive frontline, clinical leadership and decision making and managerial experience.
Team composition:
* Community Specialist Practitioner – Urgent and Long-term Conditions
* Community Nurse
* Community Therapist
* Paramedic
* Community Support Worker
* Administrator
Purpose of this role is to work autonomously as a specialist practitioner to identify and case manage individuals with highly complex needs who require intensive community support within their Primary Care Network (PCN) in partnership with the Integrated Network Team (INT) and the primary care team to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges from hospital into the community setting, improving quality of life.
As an experienced practitioner you will provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care for people who are frail and have several long-term conditions. You will also provide clinical leadership and direction to the INT, supporting the Locality Manager and Assistant Locality Manager to deliver excellent evidence based clinical outcomes. To provide organisational and service resilience you may be expected to cross cover other teams or services, both within the locality and across Sirona services.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we would love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire. Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Heybyrne Job title: Assistant Locality Manager Email address: Lucy.Heybyrne@nhs.net
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
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