Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Urgent Community Response (UCR) & Virtual Wards Service. The post will form part of a seven day service based within one of the Trust's locality teams. The service provides patients who are experiencing an acute change in their health a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission, supported by a mixture of face to face visits and digital technology. The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in the fields of general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory, and Cardiology for patients who are supported by the team as an alternative to hospital admission.
Responsibilities
* Deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in general medicine, frailty, respiratory, and cardiology for patients supported by the UCR & Virtual Wards Service as an alternative to hospital admission.
* Provide consistent, high-quality, person-centred care daily through application of advanced clinical judgment and critical thinking to assess, investigate, diagnose, prescribe, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care.
* Work within the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice and embrace the four pillars of clinical practice: leadership and management, education and research.
About Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Engagement and Feedback
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services. We continually look for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the trust have a good working life and a good work life/home life balance.
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