Senior Clinical Decision Maker

The Senior Clinical Decision Maker (SCDM) will provide advanced clinical oversight, decision-making, and coordination within the Reactive Care Coordination Hub. They will support timely responses to community-based crises, working collaboratively across UCR, Virtual Ward, and other teams to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. The SCDM will also provide expert input on clinical referrals, diagnostics, and frailty management, ensuring safe and effective patient outcomes., Key aspects of the role include:

• Clinical support during morning handovers (2 hours)
• Rapid assessment and clinical decision-making for urgent referrals
• Follow-up of cases managed by UCR, Virtual Ward, D2A, and YLL
• Diagnostic review and interpretation to guide care decisions
• Liaison with the Reactive Care Coordination Hub Consultant and community partners
• Case-based clinical decision-making earlier in the referral process
• Input into the coordination hub on appropriate referral pathways and actions
• Creation and updating urgent care plans via Valida for anticipatory care planning
• Support to all community services for urgent patient needs
  
  Hillingdon Health and Care Partnership (HHCP) brings together local health and social care providers to deliver coordinated, person-centred services in the community.
The Reactive Care Coordination Hub forms part of HHCPs urgent and proactive care model, providing rapid clinical assessment, crisis response, and short-term interventions to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. The Hub works collaboratively with the Urgent Community Response (UCR) team, Virtual Ward, Discharge to Assess (D2A) services, Your Life Line (YLL), primary, community, secondary care, local authority and voluntary sector partners. The Reactive Care Programme is improving urgent and crisis care so residents receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time when health or social care needs escalate. It brings together our Integrated Urgent Response, hospital avoidance services, and discharge support creating a single pathway for unplanned care outside of the acute hospital.