Hospital Outreach 24/7 Senior Enhanced Practitioner Worcester

This vacancy has created the opportunity within the Hospital Outreach 24/7 Team for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to join the Senior Enhanced Practitioner Team and wider Team to support the implementation of Martha's Rule across the organisation to ensure that patients and families have a clear accessible route to escalate concerns. The post holder will work as part of the Hospital Outreach 24/7 Team and will respond quickly and effectively to deteriorating patients on the wards. They will work alongside Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) using the Prevention, Identification, Escalation and Response (PIER) Model to reduce physical deterioration. They will also have responsibility for the daily management of a caseload of patients, in collaboration with the medical teams. This post will be split between Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester and The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch and travel across the county is essential.

The Diagnostics and Specialties Care Group is a great place to work, with well-developed clinical services, a highly respected Quality Governance Team and a strong Divisional Management Team who are truly committed to giving the best patient care possible.

Main duties of the job:

• Work towards health promotion and prevention and comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness and deterioration.
• Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions, which will include prescribing medication where legally allowed and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
• Plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use, and provide direct support to patients and clients.
• Work in partnership with patients and support them to manage and live their life.

About us:

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester. Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do:

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System. We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs:

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Registered Healthcare Practitioner; Teaching/Assessing Course; Intermediate life support; Completed a Level 6 or 7 Health Assessment module; Competent in venepuncture, cannulation, arterial blood gases, NG Tube and Line Management; Independent Prescriber.
• Knowledge: Understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment; Up to date knowledge of evidence-based guidelines and policies.
• Other Job Requirements: High level of self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement; Flexibility in approach and attitude; Shows honesty and integrity; Able to work cross site and full rotation across 24-hour period and 7 days (if service requires).
• Experience: Relevant post-registration experience, within speciality; Able to demonstrate recent effective clinical leadership skills; Participation in audit and clinical research.
• Skills: Advanced clinical assessment and history taking skills; Able to rapidly assess acute situations and take appropriate action; Staff management experience; Able to remain calm in rapidly changing and stressful situations; Positive role model; Highly developed diagnostic reasoning skills.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.