Recruitment Day – Saturday 29th September 2018, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm at Highfield Clinical Care Centre, Cliftonville Road, Northampton NN1 5BD.

The NHS is Moving More Care Closer to Home and Our service is at the forefront and is expanding to support this. Be Part Of It.

Band 7 - £33,222 - £43,041 pa pro rata

Band 6 - £28,050 - £36,644 pa pro rata

Band 5 - £23,023 - £29,608 pa pro rata

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust’s Intermediate Care Team has been awarded greater investment and is expanding the service.

We deliver an integrated patient-led, high quality health and social care community service for all adult residents throughout the county of Northamptonshire within their own home. We are the NHS provider of choice.

We have a number of clinical pathways which support our patients within their own homes; this includes treating and supporting patients with medical needs to remain at home by preventing hospital admission through Rapidly Responding. As well as rapidly discharging people who reach A&E in both our acute hospitals in the county by in reaching into acute care through our nursing and emergency care practitioner team.

We also facilitate rapid discharge from the main ward areas of our two acute trusts and community hospitals through the discharge to assess model which is led by our dynamic therapy team. The therapist also lead on a non-weight bearing pathway to prevent long stays in acute care.

We also provide all Community Intravenous Therapy in the county.

We are an established multi-professional clinically led community team, and our reputation is well regarded through our ethos of integrated partnership working, by achieving our aims through our proven track record in the health economy in Northamptonshire. We have been recognised CQC as providing outstanding care and leadership.

Our patients are our priority and they regularly feedback their positive experience of our service. We strive to support them at their most vulnerable so that, they receive quality seamless care and help them to maximise their independence.

This is an exciting opportunity for dedicated, experienced and highly motivated professional’s to join our team. If you wish to work autonomously and deliver diverse care in an ever challenging, ever developing service and want to be part of innovative clinical way within the community then this is the service for you.

This is a unique role to positively influence patient care if you have:

• Effective leadership skills at all levels
• Ability to effectively balance a primarily clinical role with managerial responsibilities (band 7 only)
• Motivation about innovative service development
• Keen to Progress your career in a dynamic forward thinking way
• Would you like experience working within patient’s own homes and can transfer your skills
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a large dynamic and evolving team
• Have the necessary skills to supervise other members of the MDT, mentor students, including medical students.
• Keen to Progress your career into a more Senior Role through our development posts
• As a junior member of staff are interested in a rotational post to gain a greater knowledge base and diverse skill set.
• Feel passionate that where possible patients should remain in their own home or return home quick to prevent pyjama paralysis.
• You have drive and passion to help shape community physical health care for the future expanding the skills/treatments we offer in a patients own home.

If you have answered yes to the above,

This is the job for you!

If you feel you have the necessary skills and competencies to fulfil our roles, are excited about the opportunities that Unplanned Care/ICT offers and are willing to take up the challenges of working across professional boundaries, we are the team for you.

We are looking to attract various clinicians with an interest or relevant knowledge and skills and an ability to work autonomously seeing a wide range of clinical conditions with patients in their own home. Our hours of work are from 7am to 1am across 7 days a week, with a range of shift for our nursing staff and support staff and between 8.30am to 6pm across 7 days a week for our therapy staff.

For Nurses we are able to offer between our service times of 7am to 01am a range of shifts over 6hrs, or 7.5hrs & or 12hrs or 12.5hrs.

We are able to offer full and part time hours and 0 contract hours on our bank.

Applications will also be welcomed from nurses who are due to qualify in the near future.

Please apply online or come and see us on the day.

For further information please contact Paula Love, Karen Sheard or Claire Johnson on 0300 777 000 2 or email smh.recruitment@nhft.nhs.uk