Senior Urgent Community Response practitioner

We are looking for a highly motivated and autonomous person to be part of a growing multi-disciplinary team which will take forward the 2 Hour Urgent Community Response for Lincolnshire. This service will provide holistic assessments, treatment and support to patients in their usual place of residence who are experiencing a health or social care crisis who might otherwise be admitted to hospital. You will be part of a service in which care is provided by a multi-skilled team including nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and physiotherapists., Urgent Community Response is an evolving service in Lincolnshire. It will be a fast paced, interdisciplinary community team aimed at preventing unnecessary admission to hospital. This is an integrated health and social care team that visits patients in their own homes or care homes and assesses the patient's safety to remain out of the acute environment. Patients are aged over 18 and are likely to present with frailty and falls or deterioration of condition. The team will ensure the patient is supported out of hospital for a minimum 48 hour period and ensure transferred to appropriate services on discharge., LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.