Job summary
Employer heading
Complex Case Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity is opening up for an experience senior clinician with either Professional AHP or Nursing Qualification to work with the Northwich Care Community as a Complex Case Practitioner.
Working with complex patients with various long term conditions and/or multiple complex social needs you will provide holistic clinical assessment to optimise individual patient specific health needs with a real focus on patient identified goals. You will have experience in motivating and engaging patients, multidisciplinary working and supporting the development of the community team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for proactively providing the support /short term case management/case co-ordination of people within the GP cluster who are at medium/high risk. The post holder will support this process by assessing and supporting the individual to design their care and to support independence at home or in the Community.
The post holder will be able to support a patient’s Health and Social Care needs, as well as have the ability, to holistically assess changes in the patient’s condition, within agreed pathways.
Develop close working relationships with local health, Social Care and Community organisations as part of the Integrated Care Agenda.
To work autonomously within the Care Community Team working within and across professional and organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.
We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
We welcome all applicants and assess all job applications based on knowledge, skills and experience needed for the post.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Be responsible for the holistic and clinical assessment, planning and implementation, evaluation and facilitation of care to individuals, groups of patients and their families on the caseload encompassing a proactive, rehabilitative and an active self-care approach. To act as an autonomous practitioner taking on going responsibility for the complex care coordination of appropriate patients on their caseload.
Contribute to the organisation of multi-disciplinary, patient centered care. Assess and develop an individualised plan of care to enable proactive management of patients with complex needs, which may be identified by a risk stratification process. Develop and support reduction in hospital admission targets within Integrated Care Strategy.
Take an active role in health education of the individual and community by promoting self-care for long and short-term conditions, utilising motivational interviewing techniques and provide both planned and opportunistic care based upon evidenced based information.
Person specification
Application Form
Essential criteria
- AHP Qualification
- Adult Nurse Qualification
Desirable criteria
- V300 Prescribing
- Long Term Condition Module
- Evidence of continued professional development
Application Form
Essential criteria
- Mentorship Module
Desirable criteria
- Motivational Interviewing
Application and interview
Essential criteria
- 3 years post registration
Desirable criteria
- Community Experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Spencer-Sloan
- Job title
- Community Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01606 564134
- Additional information
Penny Fletcher
Complex Case Practitioner
01606564134
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
- Telephone
- [email protected]
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