Urgent Community Response (UCR) Practitioner (OOH) - Woking Community Hospital

Contract Type: Part-time, Flexible workingSalary: inclusive of 5% High Cost Area allowance per annum pro rataPartner Org: Central Surrey HealthJob summary The Urgent Community Response Practitioner for Out of Hours could be a Nurse or Paramedic. Although we cover overnight, there can be flexibility to work accross both days and nights as internal rotation, if desired. We have night shifts avalible 22:00 - 08:00, however we have a flexible work pattern which can include a variety of shifts providing cover from 18:00, which can be discussed at interview. The Urgent Community Response team aspires to provide a 24-hour/7day responsive NHS community service. The Team is commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include urgent case management and hospital admission avoidance, where the focus of the role is to lead the identification and clinical assessment patients who will benefit from advanced complex hospital discharge care, or urgent responsive admission avoidance using the Virtual Ward if required, with care provided at home by the multidisaplinary team. UK Visa and Immigration Sponsorship: Please note that we do not offer UKVI sponsorship for these posts, and so all applicants require a current right to work in the UK. Main duties of the job We provide fast reactive services for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment, care planning to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate. The focus is on 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, Urgnet Support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer Breakdown. Overnight we also cover the patients of the District Nursing caseload. Please see Job description for further details. About us CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%. Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes. We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today! We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team. Job description Job responsibilities Post Title: Band 6 Urgent Community Response(UCR) Practitioner Department: Urgent Community Response, Virtual Wards or Frailty Hubs Pay Band: TBC Locations UCR & Frailty Hubs: UCR/Virtual Ward- Woking Community Hospital, Heath Side Road, Woking Bedser Hub-Woking Community Hospital, Heath Side Road, Woking Ashford Hub, Ashford Hospital, London Road, Stanwell Thames Medical Frailty Hub, Walton Community Hospital. Rodney Road, Walton Responsible to: UCR Band 7 Clinicians (Days/Out Of Hours (OOH)) Accountable to: Director of Adult Services Responsible for: Band 5 Clinicians/Senior Community Rehabilitation Assistants / Health Care Assistants Department structure: Introduction The Urgent Community Response(UCR) and Frailty Teams aspire to provide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse or Paramedic. There is the flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation and you are able to work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty whilst 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. The teams are commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include urgent case management and hospital admission avoidance, where the focus of the role is to lead the identification and clinical assessment of patients who will benefit from advanced complex hospital discharge care, or urgent responsive admission avoidance using the Virtual Ward if required, with care provided in their own home by the multi-disciplinary team. The Frailty Team provides proactive case management, promotes self-management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users ensuring early intervention and provision of care in or as close to the patients own home as possible. Whilst operating from a local community hub, the Frailty Team delivers a joined-up approach across NW Surrey, to deliver excellence in care and engages with all practices, community teams and wider stakeholders within NWS Alliance For full details of the job description, please refer to the Job Description file.