Self Management Facilitator

at  Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Adult Physical Health services are divided into 4 categories Anticipatory, Planned and Unplanned Care and, Specialist services. All services within aim on improving outcomes for people and maximising access to services through integrated working.
Working alongside the District Nursing Service with an Anticipatory Care focus the aim being to reduce pressure on planned and unplanned care services. Supporting, teaching, and providing advice and support following best practice guidance is key to the role. To optimise patient care and ensure that where possible that patient independence is preserved and maintained.
The Community Teams aim to maintain people within their own homes/communities wherever possible and facilitate earlier discharge from hospital through delivering a more co-ordinated approach to care.
The Community Teams work closely with their colleagues in General Practice and the Third Sector organisations. Central to the philosophy and approach the Community Teams are placing the individual at the centre and proactively maximising opportunities for people to have choice, personalisation, and self-care.
Supporting, teaching, and providing advice and support following best practice guidance is key to the role. To optimise patient care and ensure that where possible that patient independence is preserved and maintained.
Self Management Facilitators within the Community Teams aim to maintain people within their own homes/communities wherever possible and facilitate earlier discharge from hospital through delivering a more co-ordinated approach to care.
The post holder will work within standard operating procedures / pathways to manage their own workload independently but with reference to a supervisor within the clinical area. In doing so, they will support the assessment of patients and implementation of programmes of care ensuring that they practice within their sphere of competence and knowledge. The post holder will work within a range of standard operating procedures and pathways in which they have received training in order to be competent.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS UNDERPINNED BY OUR CORE VALUES: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .

Actively works towards developing and maintaining effective clinical and corporate working relationships both within and outside the Trust including other agencies, individuals, and higher education Institutes

• Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
• Actively contributes to the multi-disciplinary team supporting the patient including communication with external care providers, voluntary support services and other agencies; acting as a credible source of information for other agencies/professionals involved in the care as required
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team including nurses, occupational therapists, healthcare assistants, medical staff, pharmacy staff.

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role

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