Clinical Care Coordinator
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
- Address
- South Shore Primary Care Centre or Fleetwood Hospital
- Town
- Lytham Road, Blackpool, Lancashire
- Postcode
- FY4 1TJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Long Covid Service
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Full Time post working between South Shore Primary Care Centre, Fleetwood Hospital and home working (Monday -Friday). Part time hours will be considered.
If you are an organised, dynamic, forward-thinking individual, looking for a challenge then the Long Covid Service would love to hear from you!
This is an exciting time for a registered nurse with 3 years post qualification experience to join the team.
The service is a community based service providing coordinated and integrated care for patients over the age of 18 with ongoing symptoms post contracting Covid.
Referrals are accepted from all Primary and Secondary care services.
Advert
You will undertake a generic role as a Clinical Care Coordinator learning skills and knowledge from other professionals to provide an integrated model of care to patients aiming to ensure their care is provided in a coordinated way but also supporting them to manage their own care better. We are looking for the successful candidate to be able to:
• Assess, plan implement and evaluate care.
• Ensure that the care needs of the caseload are met by effective management and appropriate delegation of work to other members of the team.
• Work in partnership with the wider community and primary care teams to provide holistic patient care.
• Be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge, advanced analytical and practical skills, and the ability to communicate in a non-judgemental, empathetic way with patients, carers and other professionals.
Working for our organisation
The team is multidisciplinary comprising of GP's, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Dietitians, Clinical Psychologists and support staff.
The service operates across the whole of the Fylde coast, and based at South Shore Primary Care Centre and Fleetwood Hospital.
If you would like to work in a forward thinking area where your opinions and clinical judgements are valued, then this could the job for you. We can offer you support and training to consolidate your skills and enable you to continue to develop.
We recommend that all individuals employed in patient facing roles, or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service should be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working with primary, secondary and community colleagues, you will:
- Be an autonomous practitioner who holds delegated responsibility for a defined caseload, coordinating care, undertaking specialist assessments and planning safe discharges for patients within the Long Covid Service.
- Assess patients in their own home or clinic setting: plans, implement and review care of patients with complex on-going health and social care needs.
- Carry out specialist assessment and treatment including the prescription of essential equipment as part of a package of rehabilitation. Specifically assessing issues related to the barriers which prevent the patient carrying out activities of daily living e.g. mobility, moving and handling, functional restrictions, activity tolerance, hand eye coordination, positioning, cognitive impairment, environmental restrictions etc.
- ensure that patients receive the care they need linking into other services and agencies (statutory and voluntary) as appropriate and ensure the patients understand their medical conditions and medications they are taking.
- create outcome goals for the patient to achieve during their time within the CFS and lead on the development, implementation and monitoring of the patient specific care plan to ensure these goals are achieved.
- Work in the community as a lone practitioner in line with the Trust’s Lone Worker Policy.
Please click here to view our Care and Compassion Day video
Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.
If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £22.00, Standard DBS check £22.00 and Enhanced DBS check £42.00.
You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £13. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.
Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.
DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.
By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.
The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.
Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.
Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
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.
Person specification
EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Degree or Diploma in professional area of practice
- Current registration with NMC
- Post registration training in Frailty and/or Long Term Conditions.
- Three years post qualified
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Practitioner degree.
- Non-Medical prescribing qualification or working towards this
- ENB 998 Teaching and Assessing in clinical practice or equivalent.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of care co-ordination of people with complex health and social care needs.
- Experience of complex discharge planning
- Experience of delivery of complex care in or out of hospital setting
- Experience of caseload management.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team within a care setting
- Experience of supervising junior or support staff
- Experience of managing Long Term Conditions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of research and development
- Experience of working within the community setting.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE and ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Good Interpersonal Skills
- Evidence of Leadership Skills
- Computer Literacy
- Critical thinker/ability to analyse
- Excellent assessment and report writing skills
- Empathetic approach to patient care
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NHS funded Continuing Health Care.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- Team orientated
- Can function under pressure
- Use’s own initiative.
- Pro-active
- Flexible
- Full driving licence and access to means of transport.
Documents
- Long Covid Service Job Description (PDF, 760.3KB)
- Long Covid Service Personal Specification (PDF, 344.4KB)
- Conditions Of Service (PDF, 306.1KB)
- Applicants Booklet (PDF, 786.3KB)
- Guidance on Pre-Employment Checks (PDF, 64.2KB)
- Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 43.2KB)
- Application Guide Booklet (PDF, 511.1KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirk Raymond
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0125351665
No longer accepting applications
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