Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust rGNKMGB5
The position requires strong clinical assessment skills and the ability to manage complex patient needs, with responsibilities that include decision-making, service improvement initiatives, and implementing evidence-based clinical practices. The UCR team operates seven days a week, providing timely support to patients within two hours of referral, and works collaboratively with various healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists and social workers. This is an opportunity for a driven and innovative practitioner to shape the future of the UCR service in Bexley while ensuring high standards of community health support.
Monday - Sunday including bank holidays, 8am-8pm, mixed shift pattern - 8am -4pm; Early Shift, 12pm - 8pm; Late Shift & 8am - 8pm weekends (1 in 4)
Oxleas Bexley Rapid Response/Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) have an exciting 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner post available. The role works across UCR and Virtual Wards.
The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, whilst providing clinical leadership and line management to junior colleagues within the integrated multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert nurse with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients, and the ability to clinically lead a community team.
We welcome dynamic applicants from adult Nursing and AHP backgrounds. This is an opportunity to join and further shape Bexley's UCR service.
UCR teams provide urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Through these teams, older people and adults with complex health needs who urgently need care, can get fast access to a range of health and social care professionals within two hours. This includes access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy, medication prescribing and reviews.
The Directorate is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an innovative Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work as a member of the UCR team to support patients experiencing crisis ill health the team offer wider admission avoidance strategies.
The successful applicant will be working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner supporting the UCR and Virtual Ward pathways to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and contribute to effective admission avoidance. The role incorporates high-level of advanced clinical assessment skills and use of the non-medical prescribing qualification to medically support complex patients within the community, presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.
You will be required to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process; identify gaps within the service and lead with service improvement and development in line with national and local strategies. You will be actively involved in research and responsible for leading implementation of evidence based clinical changes as well as facilitating a positive team culture through effective clinical leadership, providing a clinical resource to colleagues as required and delivering training and education to the team and wider services to improve standards of service delivery.
About us
The UCR team in Bexley provides a community rapid response to patients registered to Bexley GP and who live in the London Borough of Bexley seven days a week, Monday to Sunday from 8am to 8pm. This service treats patients at home to avoid a hospital admission or readmission.
All referrals are triaged by a senior member of the team and if clinically necessary seen within two hours (patients will also be seen later that day or the next day if required) by a multidisciplinary team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Primary Care Nurses, Staff Nurses Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Health Care and Rehabilitation Assistants, Social Workers, social care assistants and highly experienced administrators.
The team is supported by Consultants and Doctors, and works closely with hospital frailty teams, and colleagues in emergency care.
The team of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and support staff complete comprehensive holistic assessments and provide short-term interventions for up to five days.
The service is designed for people over 18 who are housebound and who live in the borough registered with a Bexley GP.
Please refer to the Job Description attached for further information.
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