Overview
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team aspires to provide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic. There is flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to rotate internally. This advert is predominantly for out of hours work, and you can work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty while working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.
Responsibilities
* Work autonomously to manage patient assessments within the UCR specialty.
* Collaborate with UCR clinicians, Clinical Lead, ACPs, Clinical Leads for frailty, Community Nursing, Frailty GPs, Adult Social Care, community services and the third sector to provide fast reactive services.
* Support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate, with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions (Falls; Decompensation of Frailty; Reduced Function/Deconditioning/Reduced mobility; Urgent equipment provision; Confusion/Delirium; Palliative/EOL crisis support; Urgent Catheter Care; Urgent support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer breakdown).
Qualifications and Requirements
* Band 6 UCR Practitioner role can be filled by a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic.
* Flexibility to work across days and nights with internal rotation; predominantly out of hours.
* Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team while delivering individualised direct patient care.
Divisional Context and Benefits
CSH Surrey is part of the NHS and Surrey’s longest established NHS community services provider. Employees receive NHS pay and pensions, and may also be eligible for the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
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