Band 7 Clinical Practitioner – University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 22 October 2025
The Urgent Community Response Team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission within their own home within 2 hours of referral to the service. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors.
The post holder will ensure access to Urgent Health Assessments, provide and monitor short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions. Utilising clinical expertise, clinical judgement, discretion and decision making in the development of individualised treatment plans.
You will be expected to work multi professionally, support other team members\' roles and contribute to the future development of the service providing professional advice and appropriate training to others where required.
To work in partnership with primary, secondary and other health and social care providers, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.
To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.
The post holder will be expected to work within a flexible working pattern over a 7 day week in the urgent community response team as required.
Main duties of the job
* Act as an expert practitioner, professional role model and specialist resource to the multi-disciplinary team regarding UCR /Virtual Ward
* Work alongside the Care co-ordination centre to facilitate discharges to community services.
* To work according to the appropriate professional standards, professional practice and the relevant legislative framework and exercise professional accountability always.
* Promote health by collaborative working with patients and their relatives. Act to and facilitate others to respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of patients; involving them in shared decision making and obtaining consent prior to all interventions.
* Participate in the further development of an integrated, multi-disciplinary Urgent Community Response Service working alongside colleagues in Integrated Multidisciplinary teams and the wider health and social care economy.
* Co-ordinate other members of the Team and appropriately delegate specific aspects of nursing and therapy care according to the care plan
* Participate in and lead clinical meetings to facilitate the continuity of patient care ensuring patients and relatives are kept informed of treatments, progress, and discharge arrangements
* To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager
* Completing advance care planning for palliative patients, including respect forms.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant clinical qualification with current registration (eg RGN
* Health assessment course
* Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
* Minimal 4 years post registration experience
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Non-medical prescriber
Experience
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team setting
* Experience of comprehensive clinical assessment of patients
* Experience of caring for patients who are acutely ill/require rehabilitation plan/end of life care
* Experience of effective caseload management
* Experience in line management and supervising junior staff
* Experience in facilitating professional development of other staff and ability to motivate others
* Experience in collection, collation and analysis of data for clinical audit and research
Additional Criteria
* Professional appearance
* Displays genuine interest in the post applied for and can articulate this when questioned
* Positive and enthusiastic attitude
* Ability to communicate articulately others
* Caring and approachable
* Punctual
* Reliable
* Ability to work a varied shift pattern
* unsocial hours where required
* The applicant can describe why the Trust may deploy him /her to a different practice setting for a span of duty
* Able to meet the travel requirements of the post and be independently mobile and as such it is essential for you to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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