Clinical Practitioner, Band 6

Virtual wards support patients, who would otherwise be in hospital, to get the acute care, remote monitoring, and treatment they need in their own home, including care homes. Patients with a range of acute conditions will be supported to prevent unnecessary admissions and to reduce length of stay where the patient has been identified in the hospital, whilst maintaining the same level of support and care the person would have received in an acute bed.
The role of the Clinical Practitioner is dynamic, and the post holder will be highly proactive in continually developing and embedding the role beyond the traditional scope of non-medical practice, with the rest of the team. The post holder will work within locally and nationally agreed protocols and guidelines to provide assessment, investigation, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment planning, supporting admission avoidance and facilitation of early hospital discharge for patients referred to our Virtual Ward Hub and supporting patients who require acute level care delivered within their own home environment.
Under the direction of the Virtual Ward Team leads you will assess patients on the virtual ward, implement a management plan, whilst considering your own clinical confidence and competence.
You will be part of the Virtual Ward service in a Multi-Professional team which provides high standards of clinical judgement, intervention and decision making, accessing the range of Community services., Demonstrate high level of judgmental/analytical skills when interpreting and performing patient assessments and care planning via the telephone and face to face.
- Maintain accurate and up to date patient care records, maintaining patient confidentiality, and statistical records as required by the service. Work with other professionals to promote multidisciplinary / multiagency working.
- Undertake clinical skills e.g Phlebotomy, ECG's, Physical Observations and monitoring.
-To attend and contribute to virtual ward MDT
- To work closely with the consultant clinical lead for virtual wards, community teams, and specialty teams in the acute to develop and support a range of virtual ward pathways.
- Working autonomously, assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis, and initiating appropriate, evidence-based treatment and care within scope of practice.
- Act as a resource for all members of the multi-disciplinary team, providing advice in aspects of patient management.
- Working with our clinical leads and integrated Multidisciplinary teams across organisations to develop the model for NHS@Home virtual ward universal personalised care within the Virtual Wards.
- Incorporating digital capabilities with the efficient use of technology to support clinical decision making, Responsible for the holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based nursing care for patients referred to hospital at home service.
- Responsible for delivering, evaluating and supporting training of patient and carers enabling them to be cared for virtually.
- Utilising remote monitoring as part of the clinical care delivery
- Providing high-quality care for patients including co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team and allocating visits as appropriate.
- Delivering high-quality, clinically effective care, and patient experience, utilising research and in collaboration with colleagues in everyday practice.
- Participate in effective clinical leadership and management of team members through clinical supervision.
- Actively contribute to the development and improvement of services and the quality of care through reflective practice, clinical supervision and audit.
- Act as a role model, mentoring, teaching, assessing and supporting students and learners on placement and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff., Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach, and mentor.
- Actively seek and participate in peer review of own practice and participate in annual appraisals, demonstrating ongoing professional development by keeping up to date with national and local developments within the specialty.
Research
- Ensure that practice is informed by practice and may participate in research as appropriate.
- Evaluates own service or role within area practice but also across the key acute medicine and community pathways and engages or leads in quality improvement projects.
- Utilise results from research trails and clinical audit to develop new ways of working focusing on quality improvement and enhanced clinical care for acute medical patients.
- Evaluate and audit own clinical practice, selecting and applying valid, reliable methods, then acting on the findings.
Leadership
- Work with fellow colleagues to ensure that the team works flexibly and supportively together, and that the performance indicators for the area are delivered.
- Demonstrate excellent personal communication. Establish and maintain effective two-way communication channels with individuals and groups.
- Demonstrate appropriate assertiveness and ability to challenge others when the rights of patients and others may be infringed.
- Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to problem solve. Promote excellent team working and interdisciplinary relationships.
- Allocate work and assess performance of the team members objectively against set criteria/ competencies. Provide clear feedback to team members in a way that is conducive to maintaining and improving performance.
- Actively promote robust infection control practices. Assist the department Sister to maintain high standards of cleanliness in the clinical area and for a well-maintained clinical environment.
- Promote interdisciplinary working, with outcomes aimed at the best interest of patients.
- Actively promote diversity, including race diversity. Assist the department Sister to sustain relationships that promote dignity, rights and responsibilities. Identify and take action to address discrimination and oppression.
- Support the Senior Clinicians to ensure the clinical area practices within Data Protection/Confidentiality/Caldicott principles.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records. To input and retrieve patient information from computer-based systems
- Organise, develop and deliver educational and training programmes, study days
For more information please contact the virtual ward hub number or email [email protected]
Available 5 days a week Mon-Friday
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.

You should critically assess and address your own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development within your scope of practice.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Mentorship qualification or willing to work towards.
- Demonstrates ability to think laterally, creatively and innovatively to enhance patient care.
- Analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to manage own time efficiently.
- Excellent organisational skills of self and others.
- Engage in self-directed learning and identify own continuing professional development in line with service needs and maintenance of ongoing capabilities and competence in practice.
- Advocate for and contribute to a culture of organisational learning to teach and inspire future and existing staff.

Band 6
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support., This role will be employed by the acute trust with an honorary contract with our community provider GHC. We are fortunate that Gloucestershire has a single acute trust, and single community provider, which provides excellent conditions for a cross- system roles such as this. Our digital partner Doccla has a wide range of Virtual Ward experience from other systems - and we are leading the way with two way integration into our electronic patient records.
With this being a new service model, there is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to help shape and develop the service and team to meet the needs of patients at home. In return, the opportunity to work alongside and across providers is an exciting prospect for clinicians who really believe in integrated models of care. You will be supported by clinical leads, operational leads and transformation leads within both organisations and closely working with the ICB to develop and evaluate the model.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we're one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. We have a workforce of 8,000+ staff across both sites.