Self Management Facilitator

Adult Physical Health services are divided into 4 categories: Anticipatory, Planned and Unplanned Care, and Specialist services. All services aim to improve outcomes for people and maximise access to services through integrated working.

Working alongside the District Nursing Service with an Anticipatory Care focus aims to reduce pressure on planned and unplanned care services. Supporting, teaching, and providing advice and support following best practice guidance is key to the role. The goal is to optimise patient care and ensure that, where possible, patient independence is preserved and maintained.

The Community Teams aim to maintain people within their own homes/communities wherever possible and facilitate earlier discharge from hospital through delivering a more coordinated approach to care. They work closely with colleagues in General Practice and Third Sector organisations. Central to the philosophy and approach of the Community Teams is placing the individual at the centre and proactively maximising opportunities for people to have choice, personalisation, and self-care.

Self Management Facilitators within the Community Teams aim to maintain people within their own homes/communities, clinics, and hospital inreach wherever possible and facilitate earlier discharge from hospital through delivering a more coordinated approach to care. The post holder will work within standard operating procedures/pathways to manage their own workload independently but with reference to a supervisor within the clinical area. In doing so, they will support the assessment of patients and implementation of programmes of care, ensuring that they practice within their sphere of competence and knowledge.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs.
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increased mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details/informal visits contact: Name: Gillian Marsden, Job title: Self Management Facilitator Team Lead, Email address: gillian.marsden@bdct.nhs.uk, Telephone number: 07985378370.

Actively works towards developing and maintaining effective clinical and corporate working relationships both within and outside the Trust including other agencies, individuals, and higher education institutes. Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Actively contributes to the multi-disciplinary team supporting the patient including communication with external care providers, voluntary support services, and other agencies; acting as a credible source of information for other agencies/professionals involved in the care as required. Work as part of a multidisciplinary team including nurses, occupational therapists, healthcare assistants, medical staff, and pharmacy staff.