Senior Nurse Practitioner Unscheduled Care Co-ordination Hub
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Senior Nurse Practitioner to join the newly commissioned Unscheduled Care Coordination Hub (UCCH) at Wirral University Teaching Hospital. This innovative role offers the opportunity to lead and influence a new model of urgent care coordination, improving access to community-based services and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions.
The UCCH centralises the management of Urgent Community Response referrals, including Category 3, 4 and 5 referrals from Northwest Ambulance Service. Working closely with community teams across Cheshire and Warrington, NWAS and system partners, you will provide clinical leadership, triage and coordination to ensure timely patient care.
Main duties of the job
To lead within the Unscheduled Care Co-ordination Hub, aligning with the National Framework for Urgent Care Response (UCR) 2 hr response. To provide clinical assessment of acutely unwell patients and to support the frailty initiative by providing senior clinical support to both UCR and community staff.
To use established pathways and processes to provide a wide range of acute advise on treatment options in line with community nursing and social care assessments to patients who may potentially be at risk of a hospital admission.
To be an autonomous practitioner who has the experience and clinical confidence to assess the needs of the patient and determine if the patient needs further face to face assessment or whether they can be discharged at first point of contact. To support the telephone triage of patients, working with both healthcare professionals and patients in determining the correct clinical pathway depending on their clinical presentation.
To provide support to junior members of the team in developing confidence around the decisions to use alternative to admission pathways.
About us
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients. Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m. The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification for more information about the Senior Nurse Practitioner Unscheduled Care Co-ordination Hub opportunity available with WUTH.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Specific Experience &
Training · Essential
RGN Qualification Masters in advanced practice, or working towards / equivalent experience Evidence of recent Professional Development Experience in leadership role Experience of Clinical Governance and risk assessment Demonstrable post registration experience Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Independent prescriber Post graduate qualification in rapid response/community nursing/emergency department/acute medical or equivalent experience Experience of working in Urgent Care
Personal Attributes · Essential
Able to communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and/or contentious information, including where there are barriers to understanding Advanced clinical reasoning Excellent interpersonal skills IT Literate
Knowledge and Skills · Essential
To have an up to date working knowledge of acute, chronic and terminal illness, wound management, care of the elderly and palliative care. An understanding of the Primary and Secondary Care interface Demonstrate the application of evidence-based practice Autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals Able to demonstrate a depth and breadth of current issues and policies within the NHS and can translate into practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
