Bank Advanced Clinician Hospital at Home

Job overview

Central London Community Healthcare are seeking a Advanced Clinician to join them on a bank contract

The Hospital at Home service will provide intensive hospital level care for acute conditions that normally require an acute hospital bed, in a patient’s home for a short episode through multidisciplinary healthcare teams. The service will take appropriate patients out of hospital early to help release capacity in the hospital, deliver appropriate care and interventions and prevent unnecessary admission or attendance at hospital. The service is delivered by a team of specially trained registered professionals including GP’s who visit each patient in their home to deliver the care they need.    The team will have access to home-based telemetry, point of care testing and will deliver IV therapy amongst other interventions.

Main duties of the job

• Be responsible for undertaking comprehensive health assessments, physical examination and ordering tests for patients in Urgent Community Response services.
• Use advanced clinical decision making and assessment skills, coordinate care planning and initiate referrals to diagnostics for appropriate tests for this population.
• Interpret complex information and findings from diagnostic tests and examinations and formulates solutions to inform on the best treatment plans for patients and carers.
• Be involved in establishing, delivering and leading a comprehensive service within community services
• Fundamentally working as an autonomous and advance practitioner assessing, diagnosing and treating patients in an appropriate and timely fashion

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'