# Hospital at Home Clinical Practitioner

**Company**: Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Epping
**Salary**: £39959.00 to £48117.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Clinical Practitioner to join the West Essex Hospital at Home Service.

Hospital at Home provides safe, effective and person-centred care to patients who would otherwise require admission to an acute hospital or who can be supported to leave hospital earlier. Care is delivered through a combination of face-to-face clinical assessment, treatment and remote monitoring, supported by a multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will work autonomously within their professional scope of practice, managing patients with a range of acute and complex health needs in their own homes. You will undertake comprehensive assessments, develop individualised care plans, deliver clinical interventions and recognise and respond to deterioration.

**Main duties of the job**

- Undertake comprehensive and holistic clinical assessments in patients' homes and virtually.

- Manage a delegated caseload of patients with acute, complex and changing healthcare needs.

- Develop, implement and evaluate person-centred treatment and care plans.

- Monitor patients through face-to-face assessment and remote-monitoring technology.

- Recognise clinical deterioration and initiate appropriate escalation or emergency intervention.

- Deliver clinical interventions in accordance with professional competence and local policies.

- Work collaboratively with medical staff, senior practitioners, pharmacists, therapists, primary care, community services and acute hospital teams.

- Support admission avoidance and timely discharge from hospital.

- Maintain accurate, contemporaneous clinical records using the Trust's electronic systems.

- Participate in daily multidisciplinary discussions, clinical handovers and safety huddles.

- Support junior colleagues, students and newly appointed staff through supervision and role modelling.

- Contribute to clinical audit, quality improvement, incident learning and service development.

**Benefits**

- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.

- Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.

- Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.

- £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us (Subject to T&Cs).

- Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

**About us**

- Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.

- Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.

- If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.

- We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

## Skills

### Required
- clinical assessment
- care planning
- remote monitoring
- multidisciplinary team work

### Nice to have
- community care experience
- acute care experience

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