Senior UCR Clinician

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Clinician to join the Norwich Urgent Community Response Team to lead in the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own place of residence by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care in order to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitating early supported discharge. You will be expected to lead conversations with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on a regular basis enabling safe, appropriate and patient centred care to be delivered to this complex patient group.

This role will predominantly involve face to face nursing care and assessment within a patient’s usual place of residence, with an element of Triage for the Urgent Community Response Team on a rota basis plus other supportive activities as part of the Multidisciplinary Team.

This is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery are 8am-8pm 365 days per year

Main duties of the job

As part of the Urgent Community Response Team you will be required: • To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary  admission to hospital. • To assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative and end of life care and/or rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence plus prevent avoidable admission where possible. • To act as the patients advocate, facilitating choice and patient empowerment. • To provide evidence based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on “best practice”. • To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support early  discharge from hospital. • To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies  to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users. • To triage referrals on a rotational basis for the Urgent Community Response  Team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will: 1. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of patient care, and develop  treatment/care pathways that may need to be delivered from a range of options. 2. Follow a holistic assessment, devise an individualised care pathway for each  patient, modifying it as required. 3. Be aware of Assistive Technology and utilise where required. 4. Assess patients’ holistic needs, communicating complex and sensitive  information to patients and carers as to their assessment, diagnosis, prognosis  and treatment plan. 5. Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental  capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations  require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance. 6. Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers,  incorporating motivation, encouragement and confidence building to enable  patients to engage in their treatment/care/management plan. 7. Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care  professionals and the voluntary sector to ensure identified needs are met and  care co-ordinated appropriately. 8. Be required to undertake risk assessments and act upon them appropriately. 9. Participate in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency meetings as appropriate, e.g. Gold Standard Framework. 10.Plan and organise specialist services within the Urgent Community Response  Team.  11.Ensure activity data and clinical information is recorded on SystmOne and  completed on a daily basis. 12.Demonstrate dexterity and co-ordination when using specialist equipment and  fine tools, advanced sensory skills, manual and mobilising skills.