Rapid Response Practitioner inCountywide inCountywide PUBLISHED
TUE 10 DEC 2024
The trust is dedicated to providing high-quality, personalized care to its community, and offers a comprehensive induction program along with multi-professional preceptorship initiatives to support practitioners in their ongoing development. The role emphasises building relationships that prioritize patient needs, ensuring that care is tailored to empower individuals in managing their health effectively.
Rapid Response provides a Countywide service to manage and treat patients who present with an acute illness or exacerbation of a long term condition. Our aim is to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals, we work closely with partners in the acute hospital, and with other urgent care providers and community services. Our passion for delivering care services of the highest quality to our local communities is further developing and we are striving to deliver new models of service, inspiring innovation, and liberating talent.
To deliver the rapid response service across the County to achieve the 2-hour Urgent Community Response target
To work as a clinician within their professional scope of practice in responding to acute medical needs in a variety of community settings.
Undertake the role of red lead within SPCA on a rotational basis to support development of triage skills.
Provide comprehensive initial clinical examination, history taking and assessments of patients in order to determine and deliver initial clinical treatments such as intravenous infusions. Refer on to other appropriate members of the Integrated Community Team to provide on-going support.
To utilise specialist care, skills and knowledge in the delivery of the service in order that clients be cared for appropriately and safely in their own homes.
Applicants must have extensive post registration clinical experience and will be expected to be experienced in the assessment of the acutely unwell adult, monitoring and management of the deteriorating patient, along with experience of the delivery of complex care planning to include onward referral into other services when medically stable. Evidence of current experience caring for patients with acute medical needs is essential. The successful applicant will undertake roles within the community setting countywide as a Rapid Response Practitioner.
Applicants must hold an Advanced Patient Assessment Qualification, they must be an adaptable team player and possess excellent communication and IT skills with good problem solving skills to manage challenging situations. Community experience is desirable but not essential as a full and comprehensive induction programme will be provided. A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential.
About us
We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).
Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
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