Home Visiting Clinical Practitioner inCanterbury inCanterbury PUBLISHED
FRI 11 OCT 2024
Canterbury Integrated Healthcare r6IcPf3R
The position requires strong organisational skills, the ability to travel across the Canterbury area, and a commitment to improving integrated healthcare services. The Home Visiting Clinical Practitioner is expected to maintain accurate health records and coordinate care among various professionals to meet the needs of patients and their families efficiently. As responsibilities may evolve, adaptability and a proactive approach to delivering care are essential for success in this role.
Come and join our great supportive Home Visiting Team in Canterbury! We work in an integrated and collaborative way with Canterbury GP Practices. We are proud of the services we provide and passionate about improving them further.
The visiting practitioner will work as part of the PCN visiting team undertaking both pre-arranged and same day visits to housebound patients and to those living in care settings. The role requires the practitioner to be able to assess and treat patients within their scope of practice as well as liaise with the patients' GP practice.
The team will be primarily in the community but based at out premises, The Annexe, Ethelbert Road Surgery and the focus of the role includes:
- Working with patients and their carers and the wider neighbourhood team
- Keeping patients at the centre of collaborative integrated neighbourhood working
- Delivering Care Home rounds under the supervision of the aligned practice
- Delivering a home visiting service across Canterbury
- Providing effective care planning and comprehensive assessments
- Supporting the development of effective systems and processes to ensure well-coordinated, high quality care that meets contractual requirements.
You will need access to transport to enable you to travel around the Canterbury practices' catchment area.
It is important to note that responsibilities will evolve so this is not designed to be an exhaustive list.
The role includes:
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within Canterbury Integrated Healthcare including involvement in weekly frailty and/or care home MDT meetings
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team
Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services
Liaising with other professionals, families and carers to provide clinical information relating to patient management.
Working with practices to support the delivery of Enhanced Health in Care Homes including:
oAssessment upon admission of new patients to care homes
oProactive, timely and consistent weekly support to the care home
oEvaluate and modify care plans
oTimely same day response to the in-reach teams where appropriate
oProvide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines for both routine and urgent complaints.
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It is important to note that responsibilities will evolve so this is not designed to be an exhaustive list.
The role includes:
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within Canterbury Integrated Healthcare including involvement in weekly frailty and/or care home MDT meetings
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN team
Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service and, where appropriate, other community or voluntary services
Liaising with other professionals, families and carers to provide clinical information relating to patient management.
Support the delivery of Enhanced Health in Care Homes including:
oAssessment upon admission of new patients to care homes
oProactive, timely and consistent weekly support to the care home
oEvaluate and modify care plans
oTimely same day response to the in-reach teams where appropriate
oProvide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines for both routine and urgent complaints.
Be able to:
Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance
Support the delivery of anticipatory care plans and lead certain services (e.g., monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients, reviews of patients with learning disabilities)
Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day GP home visit for the networks
Communicate at all levels across organisations ensuring that an effective, person-centred service is delivered
Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required
Maintain accurate and contemporaneous health records appropriate to the consultation, ensuring accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient healthcare and registration with the organisation
Communicate effectively with patients and, where appropriate, family members and their carers, where applicable, complex and sensitive information regarding their physical health needs, results, findings and treatment choices
Any other tasks and duties commensurate with the role
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