Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Care - Telemedicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months (Contract Ends September 2024)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts will consist of long days, nights and weekends)
- Job ref
- 423-6200156
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital, Building 17, Office 2A
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/05/2024
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Assessor (Nurse/Paramedic)(Band 6)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
An opportunity for 1 WTE secondment for 6 months for a registered clinical practitioners to join the Digital Care Hub team to support the delivery of COPD services across Airedale and Craven,.
The Digital Care Hub provides video and telephone support to approximately 25,000 patients living in their own homes and in nursing and residential care.
The Hub is a 24/7 service, with the aim of supporting patients in their own place of residence where it is clinically safe to do so, reducing the number of unnecessary attendances at A&E and unplanned admissions.
The service is rapidly expanding and as such we need additional staff to offer greater support to the new innovations in our work.
Applicants will need to have an innovative approach to work and be receptive to constant change.
We are looking to recruit nurses / therapists from a wide variety of backgrounds to take up opportunities with challenging and evolving posts.
We are starting on the our exciting journey and our posts will offer exciting new opportunities for health care professionals, working at band 6 level, who are interested in new ways of working who are keen to support the development of the new services and deliver high quality safe care to patients.
Main duties of the job
- Provides high quality, evidence based remote clinical assessment, establishing a plan of care for patients accessing services in the DCH in accordance with Trust guidelines and protocols..
- Supports and provides care for palliative/ end of life patients and their family/carers who access the Goldline service via telephone.
- Participates in the provision of early intervention with appropriate assessment, observation and treatment for patients, tilises clinical assessment and observational skills.
- Ensures timely responses to all remote monitoring alerts.
- Works with individual care plans to provide personalised care for all patients, referring to other services as required.
- Works in collaboration with acute, primary care and community teams in the management of sick patients.
- Participates in practice development programmes and assists with the audit and evaluation of clinical standards.
- Participates in the in-service training, preceptorship and supervision of junior staff, post-basic course nurses and students (or AHP as appropriate), with a commitment to self-development.
- Develops good Trust wide working relationships and communicates effectively with nursing colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Promotes quality care and non-discriminatory practice as outlined in Trust Policies and Procedures, acknowledging a patient’s personal beliefs and identity
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients – we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details and full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN/Project 2000 Adult Branch, mental health/ LD RGN/ BSc (or equivalent ) AHP Qualification e.g. OT/ PT/SALT
- Non-Medical Prescribing/ Advanced Clinical Assessment (or willing to work towards)
- Current NMC/ HCPC registration
- Diploma in a relevant health care topic/working towards
- ENB 998 / C & G 730 /SLiP Educational qual.
Desirable criteria
- ALS, AIM, ALERT courses desirable (or willing to undertake)
- First degree in relevant subject
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical knowledge in the care and management of the frail elderly, acute and chronically sick patient within and outside of hospital
- Demonstrates self-learning to improve knowledge and skill base Computer literate
- Knowledge of National Health Service agenda in relation to Acute Care, Clinical Governance and the relevant clinical professional Agenda
- Understanding of, and ability to implement, evidence –based practice
- Knowledge of risk management
- Knowledge of the NHS Constitution & ‘Understanding the New NHS’
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent written, verbal and electronic communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Research, teaching and leadership skills
- Willing to learn new technologies related to digital and remote healthcare
- Assessment skills of the acutely ill patient
Desirable criteria
- An interest in developing further clinical skills
- Remote video assessment skills
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office Software (eg. Microsoft Word, Powerpoint)
- Familiarity with SystmOne or other PAS system
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant Acute or Community Care experience.
- Ability to work with and motivate nurses/ therapy and medical staff
- Evidence of Practice Development in previous employment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of designing and delivering training and education for health care professionals
- Experience within Palliative and End of Life Care
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly
- An interest in Telemedicine
- An interest in promoting and marketing the DCH
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Nixon
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292799
- Additional information
Louise Hall
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