Clinical Care Practitioner

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for you to join the Urgent Care & Support Service at Your Healthcare as a Clinical Care Practitioner, Working in the community to reduce hospital admissions from Nursing, Residential and Learning Disability care homes, enhancing MDT working and the use of Universal Care Plans.

The postholder will support the implementation, management and delivery of enhanced MDT working in care homes across Kingston and work in partnership with care homes, Care Home (GP) Leads, acute and community services to deliver, enhanced MDT working and increase the use of the Universal Care Plans.

The postholder will collaborate with professionals to initiate care planning discussions including advance care planning, comprehensive geriatric assessment, frailty, and dementia to initiate and complete a universal care plan.

This enhanced approach to MDT working and care planning aims to improve the use of the health and care system by intervening earlier, proactively, and more holistically for residents of care homes., The post will be fundamental in supporting the Care Home MDT meetings to function effectively, implement changes to ways of working and evaluate the success of the Proactive Anticipatory Care (PAC)model.

Work in collaboration with Health Care Professionals supporting care home residents and to identify those at risk of deterioration, deconditioning or admission for discussion with the MDT, initiate or review of advance care plans through the UCP.

Monitor hospital admissions A&E attendance & ambulance call rates for care homes in the Kingston borough liaising with KHFT Transfer of Care Hub, Discharge Coordinators and other key personnel to enable proactive working and provision of targeted support to facilitate earlier discharge and prevent unnecessary admission to hospital for care home residents.

Support care homes, linked GPs and Adult Services to work collaboratively to achieve effective communication and provision of proactive medical/nursing/therapeutic care to facilitate earlier discharge and prevent.

Welcome to Your Healthcare CIC. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise, proud of delivering patient-led, high-quality health and social care community services for residents in Kingston & Richmond as part of the NHS family.

As a Community Interest Company (CIC), we offer you NHS pay, conditions and training, but in a bureaucracy-free environment where you can achieve things faster and see good ideas become reality, quickly.

Your Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are proud of our exceptional staff survey results, especially our staff engagement and good place to work scores, and our impressive feedback from patients and service users.

We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion for our staff members, service users, visitors, and carers, and we will encourage you to progress your career through learning and research.

We work closely and successfully with other local providers and commissioners so that a wide range of high-quality, integrated health and social care services are available to our local community.