Job overview
The Consultant Practitioner for Home Treatment Service leads the Home Treatment Service alongside the SAS Doctors West Kent.
We are a community team made up of a variety of staff including Specialist Doctors, Speciality Doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Health Care Assistants.
The Home Treatment Services have excellent links with Primary Care, Community Teams, Hospice, SECAMB Trust and Acute Trust Teams.
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a clinical expert in Frailty and will fulfil the 4 domains of Advanced Clinical Practice:
1. Advanced and expert level clinical practice within the field of frailty ensuring clinical excellence
2. Leadership and consultancy providing expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues
3. Development and provision of education and training to other staff and trainees
4. Service development, evaluation, research and audit.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. First level Registration with NMC, HPCP or GPHC
2. Demonstratable, Significant or Extensive post registration experience
3. Teaching qualification
4. Research qualification
5. Non- medical Prescribing
Desirable criteria
6. Psychology or counselling experience and training/ education
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Extensive clinical experience in the care and treatment of people with frailty (including long term conditions and dementia care experience)
8. Advanced skills in history taking and physical assessment of frail people
9. Independent prescribing experience
10. Experience of advanced specialist interventions in the assessment and management of older patients
11. Experience of planning, implementation and delivery of educational programmes relating to long term conditions
Desirable criteria
12. Extensive experience of presenting report/ educating / information to public forums
13. IR(ME)R training or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. Advanced understanding of long-term conditions and application to older people
15. Advanced knowledge of clinical governance
16. Advanced knowledge of change management
17. Advanced knowledge of managing complex patient information and situations
Desirable criteria
18. Extensive research knowledge
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
19. Demonstrate a high level of competence and excellence in practice
20. High level competence in strategic planning
21. Advanced skills in writing reports
22. High level skills in presenting
23. Coaching and mentoring skills
24. Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
25. Peer review of research or publications skills
26. Risk management skills at a high level
Ability to Manage
Essential criteria
27. Able to meet tight deadlines
28. Previous evidence of managing others
29. Work produced is managed to ensure a high quality standard reflective of the seniority of the post
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