Band 6 Clinical Practitioner

We are seeking a Band 6 Clinical Practitioner to join our innovative Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Virtual Wards service. This exciting role offers the opportunity to work across integrated community pathways that support admission avoidance, early supported discharge and hospital-level care delivered in patients' own homes.

You will undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, support clinical decision-making, coordinate care across multidisciplinary teams and contribute to the delivery of responsive, patient-centred care. Working within a dynamic and supportive team, you will help people receive the right care, at the right time, in the place they call home.

We are looking for a registered healthcare professional with excellent assessment and communication skills, experience of managing complex patients, and a passion for integrated community care. Experience in urgent care, frailty, community services or virtual care models would be advantageous.

In return, we offer structured induction, clinical supervision, opportunities for professional development, involvement in quality improvement and service transformation, and the chance to be part of a forward-thinking service shaping the future of community healthcare.

Join us and help deliver outstanding urgent and intermediate care across Solihull and the wider community.

Main duties of the job

The UCR/VW team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission within their own home within 2 hours of referral to the service. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors

The post holder will work in the Urgent community response team and Virtual Wards to assist in the prevention of inappropriate hospital admissions and the facilitation of hospital discharge in line with the overall objectives of the service.

The post holder will ensure access to Urgent Health Assessments, provide and monitor short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions. Utilising clinical expertise, clinical judgement, discretion and decision making in the development of individualised treatment.

To work in partnership with primary, secondary and other health and social care providers, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.

To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.

The post holder will be expected to work within a flexible working pattern over a 7 day week 24/7 in the urgent community response team as required.

Are you an experienced and motivated clinician looking to make a real difference by delivering high-quality care closer to home?

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.