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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This position involves shift working)
Job ref
820-7250634-COM
Employer
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Norman Power Centre
Town
Birmingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
11/07/2025

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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Band 7 Clinical Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

The post holder will be based within the UCR Team , and working alongside  the Virtual Ward team when required. 

The post holder will be able to provide clinical expertise in Triage,  and assessments across the Adult Community Services Division.

 The Post holder will be expected to participate in working with secondary care, to identify and assess patients suitable for community services, and to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate early supportive discharge. The work will be undertaken collaboratively with Secondary and Primary Care, and Community Services,  Early Intervention Community Teams (EICT), Urgent Care Bureau and other services deemed in scope. 

 

Main duties of the job

1.    Work in accordance with the NMC / HCPC Code of Practice

Assess, diagnose, prescribe, and manage a highly specialist adult patient caseload in a variety of settings, which will include assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning therapy programmes and discharge of patients.

2.    Be conversant with all BCHC NHS FT policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented.

 

3.    Ensure evidence-based care is practiced and promoted at all times.

 

4.    Manage own time effectively and prioritise workload.

 

5.    Facilitate teaching and supervision for less experienced members of staff.

 

6.    Promote health by collaborative working with patients and their relatives.

 

7.    Provide support to the multidisciplinary team to enable patients to make better choices for their health and that of their families, undertaking health promotion and contributing to the prevention of adverse effects to health and wellbeing.

 

8.    Act as a role model to and facilitate others to respect the dignity, wishes and beliefs of patients: involving them in shared decision making and obtaining consent prior to all interventions.

 

9.    Safeguard individuals from abuse by reporting any incidents involving potential or actual abuse and acting upon concerns immediately.

 

10.  Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to care.

 

Working for our organisation

All staff, workers, volunteers, students and individuals undertaking work experience/shadowing, irrespective of the role they specifically undertake, are required to adhere to BCHC’s vision, values, and professional standards. This also involves working with and alongside colleagues and partners, demonstrating a duty of Candour (i.e., honesty and straightforwardness), openness and accountability in order to achieve high quality and the best possible care outcomes for our patients, service users and the local community.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.    Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities, both in employment and service delivery.  Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDR’s.

 

2.    Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.

 

3.    Make recommendations and changes to clinical practice and participate in implementation where appropriate.

 

4.    Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply it to the work situation.

 

5.    Participate in the recruitment, selection, and retention of staff.

 

6.    Lead and participate in undertaking surveys and audits

 

7.    Actively participate in clinical supervision and reflective practice with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and on an individual basis.

 

8.    Ensure staff compliance with all mandatory training.

 

Person specification

Qualifications/ Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered first level nurse or equivalent professional registration e.g. HCPC
  • MSc or equivalent level knowledge/ experience in relevant area
  • Relevant nursing/health degree
  • Mentor/teaching qualification
  • Clinical supervision training and experience
  • Extended/independent nurse or specialist

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post registration experience
  • Experience working as a registered nurse in the community.
  • Nurse-led management of minor illness,minor ailments and injuries
  • Nurse-led triage
  • Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
  • Clinical Leadership
  • Audit
  • Research
  • Non-medical prescribing

Skills /knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Advanced clinical practice skills Management of patients with long-term conditions
  • Management of patients with complex needs
  • Clinical examination skills
  • Accountability of own role and other rolesin a nurse-led service
  • Local and national health policy
  • Wider health economy
  • Clinical governance issues in primary care
  • Patient group directions and associatedpolicy

Personal qualities

Essential criteria
  • Clinical leadership skills
  • Communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Proven listening and counselling skillswith the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
  • Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
  • Negotiation and conflict management skills
  • Change management
  • Teaching and mentorship clinical setting
  • Resource management

Other job requorements

Essential criteria
  • Self-directed practitioner
  • Highly motivated
  • Flexibility
  • Enthusiasm
  • Team player
  • Ability to work across boundaries

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Application numbers

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sandip Samra
Job title
Operational Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07515 070268
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