Community Assistant Practitioner - Urgent Community Response (South)

at  Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

If you’re looking for a job in the NHS in Norfolk, NCH&C is an excellent choice.
The South Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) is a service which works 7-days a week offering a range of nursing and therapy services across South Norfolk. These include Admission Avoidance, Discharge to Assess (offering rehabilitation after hospital discharge) and End of life care.
South UCR is Multi-disciplinary team of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Community Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants. We are an adaptable team looking for motivated and caring people to join the service. We are an evolving service providing frontline community care to patients in their own home.
You will be given training, equipment and support to develop your skills to enable you to fulfil the role and will complete the care certificate in after joining.

To assist in the delivery of high standards of safe, person centred health care to patients within their own places of residence, by following prescribed care pathways over a 12 hour period.
You will be fully supported by the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team with all aspects of the planning and delivering of care for this complex group of patients.
This is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery, 8am-8pm, 365 days a year.
Contribute to the delivery of care pathways for patients with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
Prevent unnecessary admission to hospital and support early discharge form hospital working as part of an MDT.
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
Please visit https://wearenchc.nhs.uk/ to find out more about working for our Outstanding community NHS trust.
Main Duties & Responsibilities

As part of the Urgent Community Response Team, you will be required to:

• Contribute to the delivery of care pathways for patients with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• Work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• Work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support early discharge from hospital.
• Work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

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