Community practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home

Job overview

The Discharge to Assess team are looking for a Registered Nurse, to fulfil an exciting community maternity leave cover opportunity within Stockport Foundation Trust Community.

We need people who share our excitement, embrace different ways of working and are able to work flexibly across organisational boundaries. An opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse – Band 6,  to work flexibly within the Discharge To Assess team.

The Discharge To Assess element is a multi-professional service who assess patients upon discharge from hospital in the community. We provide individualised care to meet the person’s needs and facilitate transfer for onward care into the appropriate service: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies.

Main duties of the job

The Discharge to Assess element: to support people who are clinically optimised  and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or another community setting.

Assessment for longer-term care and support needs is then undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person.  We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.

The Rehabilitation Element incorporates a free, short-term rehabilitation service for adults to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. This role will require the post holder to be flexible to cover all areas within the Discharge to Assess service, covering 7 days 08.00-21.00.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be a qualified Registered Nurse. You will be working within a multi-professional team incorporating Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers and rehabilitation Support Workers, as well as liaising with other community health and social care teams.

The whole service provides a person centred approach, which can be provided in a client’s own home. The service is provided across 7 days a week covering core hours of 8 am – 9 pm.

You will be based at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS. The successful candidate will be expected to work independently, but also as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. You will be offered 1:1s  and  access to supervision peer support. The service promotes regular profession specific and MDT team meetings.

You will need to be a Registered Nurse with an enthusiasm for working within the community, with the ability to work flexibly between all aspects of the service. We place a great emphasis on training and personal development and will provide you with access to training and supervision. The candidate will be able to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning, excellent time management and advanced communication skills. There will be support available from clinical leads. Lone working is an expected element within this community role with support from the Multidisciplinary team.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.