Practitioner (Nurse / Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist / Paramedic)

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care & preventing unnecessary hospital admissions?

We are looking for an enthusiastic & motivated B6 Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Paramedic to join our innovative Urgent Response and Frailty Team, working across both the Emergency Dept at University Hospital Southampton & within the community setting.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking service supporting the NHS ambition to shift care closer to home. You will play a key role in delivering care that enables patients to receive hospital-level treatment in their own homes, helping to avoid admission where appropriate.

Main duties of the job:

Undertake holistic, complex assessments for patients presenting in ED and community

Deliver clinical monitoring & therapeutic interventions to support recovery & independence

Work flexibly across:

Urgent Response in ED (formerly CEDT)

Southampton Urgent Response Service

Southwest Hampshire Frailty Service

Contribute to hospital admission avoidance and safe discharge planning

Support the development & supervision of junior staff

Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care

Contribute to ongoing service development & improvement.

You will be joining the service at an exciting time of development, as we integrate acute & community services across University Hospital Southampton & Community services across Southampton & Southwest Hampshire., To work flexible across the front-door of UHS (Urgent Response Service in ED) and the Community (Southampton and Southwest Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home Service) as part of an integrated health care team providing assessments and crisis interventions to prevent hospital admissions, and to support hospital discharge service for patients across the City of Southampton and South West Hampshire.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence