Working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll provide invaluable clinical advice and oversight, enabling a seamless service that champions quality care. You'll play a crucial part in mentoring junior staff, sharing your vast knowledge, and fostering a workplace environment that encourages learning and teamwork. If you're passionate about improving health outcomes and empowering patients, this is your opportunity to shine. Join us, and let’s collectively transform the way we care.
The IDT Clinical Support Practitioner will use specialist knowledge and skills to professionally review and patient referrals to identify the most appropriate discharge pathway from acute settings. The IDT Clinical Support Practitioner ensures each patient has the appropriate level of care and support needs to manage on discharge. In addition to this, the IDT clinical Support practitioner is required to provide clinical direction for the IDT in terms of medically optimised patients and process pathways to incorporate the community voice to patient discharge - challenging "why not home, why not today".
They will demonstrate in depth knowledge and competence in aspects including acute, community services and inpatient rehabilitation; encompassing reviewing referrals assessments, critical thinking, intervention planning and delivery and clinical management skills that are evidence based and deliver high quality patient centred care. The post holder will provide clinical advice and support to IDT staff and other health care professionals. They will provide oversight which enables the coordination of a multi professional seamless service for patients.
The IDT Clinical Practitioner will undertake the role in accordance with Trust and Service guidelines but have freedom to act within broad policies and protocols, in accordance with professional responsibilities and boundaries.
- To act as a source of specialist knowledge and skills for the IDT with an oversight of all patients at all times.
- To liaise with all MDT members across the IFT regarding patients and to escalate and liaise where additional input is required.
- At times, to act as a source of specialist knowledge and skills, and provide clinical input to patient discharges.
- To maintain safe discharges within the resources provided.
- To provide and maintain a high standard of professional care.
- To supervise and develop the knowledge and skills of junior staff.
- To initiate/facilitate developments in IDT practice.
Key Result Areas:
- Quality Care for Patients
- Safe, effective patient flow/journey.
- Work environment conducive to learning and team work.
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Please read the attached documents for detailed job description and person specification.
This job description is indicative only and the role will be reviewed at least annually as part of the Personal Development Review process to take account of changing needs/ development of the service.
To meet the evolving needs of the organisation, you may also be required to provide cover in other areas following appropriate discussion.
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