Overview
Band 6 Team Sister / Therapist – Gravesham Community Hospital
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Band 6 Staff Nurse or Therapist, with specialist knowledge and experience in discharge planning and pathways, to join our Community Transfer of Care Hub based at Gravesham Community Hospital.
In the Community Transfer of Care Hub you will manage all referrals into the Discharge to Assess Pathways across Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley. You will work alongside a talented multi-disciplinary team of integrated discharge nurses, therapists, rehabilitation and healthcare assistants and an administrator to assist in discharge planning across acute hospital services.
Gravesham Community Hospital is located a short distance from St Georges Shopping Centre and is surrounded by well-known food establishments and local coffee shops making it an ideal location to be based from.
Whilst you will be based at Gravesham Community Hospital, you will be required to travel to local acute hospitals to provide in-reach support to meet the needs of the service and you’ll also be expected to visit patients in their homes and in care homes to undertake assessments in line with our “Home First” approach. Therefore, a driving license and access to a car for work purposes is essential for this role.
Main Responsibilities
As a Band 6 Team Sister / Therapist you will:
- Support and manage the Community Transfer of Care Hub Team on a day-to-day basis, providing clinical/management leadership, support, and guidance.
- As requested, support the Team Senior Sister and Clinical Service Manager with recruitment.
- Participate in the induction of new staff, students, bank, and agency staff.
- Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of community services/placements.
- Maximise best use of clinical resources and organise clinical cover where necessary.
- Monitor and evaluate patient flow, admission, and discharge arrangements, take responsibility for initiating improvements.
- Support members of the team with facilitating safe and timely discharge plans.
- Take responsibility for the most complex cases, including leading on the assessment of homeless patients ensuring that statutory responsibilities have been met.
- Reviewing complex patients that require 1-1 funding.
- Review and support with any safeguarding issues raised.
- Develop and support robust effective communication with all HCRG Care Group colleagues and other relevant agencies i.e., GPs, social care, nursing colleagues.
- Take clinical responsibility for any placements made by the Community Transfer of Care Hub and to deal with any issues arising from these placements.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description.
Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will be / will have:
- Registered Nurse (RN) or registered Therapists (OT / Physio) with current live PIN on NMC register or HCPC register
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification 998/997/mentorship.
- Continuous Professional Development Portfolio
- Specialty knowledge and experience in discharge planning and pathways
- Experience of working within a multiagency health and care system
- Relevant post registration clinical experience
As this role requires travel, a driving license and access to a car is required for this role.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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