Job overview

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities:

1. Caseload Management: Maintain ongoing responsibility for a caseload of patients requiring complex chronic disease management, ensuring continuity and quality of care.

2. Cross-Sector Collaboration: Operate across both primary and secondary care services, bridging the gap between different levels of healthcare to provide comprehensive patient support.

3. Admission Avoidance: Actively work within healthcare services to facilitate admission avoidance, implementing strategies to manage patient conditions effectively at home or in the community.

4. Non-Medical Prescribing: Utilise non-medical prescribing skills to manage and prescribe medication for patients, enhancing treatment options and ensuring timely therapeutic interventions.

5. Avoiding Unnecessary Hospital Admissions: Implement strategies to manage patient conditions effectively in the community, reducing the need for hospital admissions whenever possible.

This role requires a combination of clinical expertise, leadership skills, and a proactive approach to patient care, aimed at delivering high-quality services and supporting the evolving needs of the community.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow. 

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.  

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.  

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.  

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.  When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.  

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.