Band 6 Senior Locality Hub Clinician RN

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new role as a Band 6 Senior Locality Hub Clinician. The locality hub is a key trust priority supporting delivery of 10 year plan vision to introduce neighbourhood hubs. The Senior hub clinician will play a vital role in the delivery of core hub functions to support improving patient flow and reducing system pressures.

The senior hub clinician will support in reach with Central locality interface at QEHB.

The Hub Clinician will triage community nursing referrals to determine when/ if the patient requires a visit in line with service specification . You will act as an autonomous practitioner providing a comprehensive telephone triage and clinical assessment service to patients and/or their carers/relatives resulting in a safe and appropriate clinical decision. As a Senior Hub Clinician you will play an integral role in supporting a system wide approach, prioritising care in the community and prevention.

The Clinical Hub Coordinator (Registered Nurse) role is based within the Locality Hub working as part of an integrated health and social care team to support the co-ordination of patient care across the Locality. The Locality Hub co-ordinates care across acute, community, and primary care settings, reducing length of stay and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions, focusing on intervention and prevention to meet the local needs of the population within the locality.

The Clinical Hub Coordinator, under the supervision of the Team Leader, manages the coordination of patient care within the locality, by triaging referrals and messages to ensure patients are on the correct clinical pathway, and in the undertaking of clinical hub functions including in-reach into the aligned acute hospital.

The post-holder will be accountable for the delivery of Safe, High-Quality care to patients within the locality across various settings.

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Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

1. Work in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, scope of Professional Practice, Trust Policies and practice in an evidence-based manner.

2. To provide a holistic approach to patients/clients that includes clinical assessment and skills in triaging referrals and messages, to evaluate the information given, using appropriate questioning, in order to establish the correct clinical pathway based on the clinical service and its priority.

3. Demonstrate critical thinking and assessment skills when making clinical decisions,

during the assessment of a variety of patients, some of which may be complex and require an MDT approach.

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