psychologist Keighley, England
Job description
An opportunity for 1 WTE substantive registered clinical practitioners has arisen to join the Digital Care Hub team to support the delivery services across Bradford Districts and Craven.
The Digital Care Hub provides video and telephone support to approximately 25,000 patients living in their own homes and in nursing and residential care.
The Hub is a 24/7 service, with the aim of supporting patients in their own place of residence where it is clinically safe to do so, reducing the number of unnecessary attendances at A&E and unplanned admissions.
The service is rapidly expanding and as such we need additional staff to offer greater support to the new innovations in our work.
Applicants will need to have an innovative approach to work and be receptive to constant change.
We are looking to recruit nurses / therapists from a wide variety of backgrounds to take up opportunities with challenging and evolving posts.
We are starting on the our exciting journey and our posts will offer exciting new opportunities for health care professionals, working at band 6 level, who are interested in new ways of working who are keen to support the development of the new services and deliver high quality safe care to patients.
- Provides high quality, evidence based remote clinical assessment, establishing a plan of care for patients accessing services in the DCH in accordance with Trust guidelines and protocols..
- Supports and provides care for palliative/ end of life patients and their family/carers who access the Goldline service via telephone.
- Participates in the provision of early intervention with appropriate assessment, observation and treatment for patients, tilises clinical assessment and observational skills.
- Ensures timely responses to all remote monitoring alerts.
- Works with individual care plans to provide personalised care for all patients, referring to other services as required.
- Works in collaboration with acute, primary care and community teams in the management of sick patients.
- Participates in practice development programmes and assists with the audit and evaluation of clinical standards.
- Participates in the in-service training, preceptorship and supervision of junior staff, post-basic course nurses and students (or AHP as appropriate), with a commitment to self-development.
- Develops good Trust wide working relationships and communicates effectively with nursing colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Promotes quality care and non-discriminatory practice as outlined in Trust Policies and Procedures, acknowledging a patient’s personal beliefs and identity
We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients – we want to make these part of our DNA.
For further details and full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification attached.
