Senior Clinical Practitioner

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About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

• We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values

Our Vision

"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".

Our Purpose

"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".

Our Values

• We Care
• We Learn
• We Empower

Our strategic objectives

• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

• Mental Health Services
• Community Health Services
• Learning Disabilities Services
• Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Job overview

This is a key role within the West Essex Care Coordination Centre (CCC)

The CCC is at the centre of the West Essex Health and Care Partnership transformation programme to support the delivery of the Out of Hospital Strategy.

Its ability to be effective and deliver the best outcomes for West Essex citizens relies on the CCC being informed and proactive in the following:-

• Use a Holistic Overview of the adults previous care history to ensure the right care is identified and facilitated.
• Understand the needs of the adult and the services in West Essex to support earliest possible discharge from hospital, avoid hospital admittance, reduce escalating need and support the rehabilitation of the adult
• Use a Multidisciplinary Team approach for complex adults led by the CCC
• Part of a fully integrated team including Social Care, Community Health and Mental Health within the CCC
• Tracking of the adult through their transfer of care journey
• Understanding of system capacity to make the best decision for the adult
• Responsible for the sourcing of care, incorporating the TOCH responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work autonomously as a clinical practitioner within the Care Coordination Centre (CCC) as an integral part of the MDT workforce; ensuring patients receive proactive coordinated care.

The role is integral to supporting an integrated approach ensuring the delivery of the right care, at the right time, in the right place, working with system partners (both health, social care and voluntary sector) to ensure that all referrals in to the CCC are managed in a timely and responsive way.

The role will provide health and care professionals with proactive and real-time access to data and services from across the system working together in accordance with OHCP to improve people's outcomes and experience by supporting the system through a single timely and co-ordinated response to each request for information or access to additional support. As well as triaging and coordinating referrals received through the CCC the post holder will also be required to rotate within the CCC team to support the management of patients active on the Urgent Community Response and/or Virtual Hospital pathway/caseload both remotely and/or face to face.

The role is integral to supporting the West Essex system to ensure:

• Provision of a 2-hour rapid response for patients who are entering a health crisis
• Provision of advanced levels of assessment to investigate, diagnose and treat patients in their own environment and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical & Professional Duties

1. Support and ensure the integrated provision and continuity of health and social care at all times, to enhance existing services for patients and carers in the local community and in the development of effective integrated, holistic care programs.
2. To work closely within the integrated service based in CCC including EPUT physical and mental health triage and assessment clinicians and Essex County Council Adult Social Care.
3. Participates in the clinical rota for CCC, UCRT and/or Virtual Hospital and will triage referrals and provide specific clinical advice to GP's, EEAST, and other health and care professionals with regard to access and interventions providing out of hospital care to the West Essex population.
4. Responsible to provide clinical oversight, knowledge and experience to undertake appropriate clinical assessments both remotely and face to face and provide a solution focused approach to the most appropriate care pathway.
5. To work with system partners to coordinate complex referrals to ensure the patient and or carer is supported at the right time, and place.
6. To ensure effective use of out of hospital health and care pathways to avoid unnecessary admissions.
7. To liaise with the acute hospitals, who support West Essex patients' and provide advice and support to ensure access to OOH pathways.
8. Provide clinical expertise to the development of the system patient and capacity tracker across West Essex, working collaboratively to develop the Care Co-ordination Centre.
9. To act as an accountable role model through the provision of professional leadership and demonstration of competent practice.
10. Take responsibility for the short-term case management of patients whilst on the Urgent Community Response caseload
11. Directly working with 111/999 and local community teams and Primary Care Networks

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse or Paramedic with current NMC/HCPC registration
• Post Registration Qualification in Advanced Practice
• Degree level education in relevant subject or equivalent intellectual ability
• Coaching skills

Desirable criteria

• Master's Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Post registration experience / qualification in frailty

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good working knowledge of all areas of clinical and non-clinical governance, including quality, audit and risk management
• Comprehensive understanding of NHS including role and function of Integrated Care Systems and Primary Care Networks
• Comprehensive understanding of Social Care Systems and processes
• Advanced knowledge of community service provision

Skills/Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant current experience in a senior nursing/paramedic position
• Significant clinical experience within community / frailty services
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills and ability to make operational judgments
• Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change.
• Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 880.3KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 528.3KB)
• Why Join The NHS Pension Scheme (PDF, 91.3KB)
• EPUT Pledge - Step into Health (PDF, 211.0KB)
• Candidate Privacy Policy (PDF, 336.6KB)
• Right to Work Information (PDF, 293.6KB)
• Employer Recognition Scheme - Gold Award (PDF, 27.7KB)
• Trust Vision and Values (PDF, 168.9KB)
• Values of the NHS Pension (PDF, 151.3KB)