Band 6 Locality hub clinician RN | Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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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 Clinical 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 undertakes 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.

• 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.
• The post‑holder will undertake the locality clinical in‑reach function, in collaboration with colleagues at the aligned acute hospital. This will involve the identification of patients with community amenable presentations who could be discharged from hospital with the appropriate community support. By liaising with acute, community, primary care and social care teams to initiate ongoing referrals and integrated care pathways, the post‑holder will support flow between services, ensuring a seamless provision of care.

• The job is Monday to Friday, covering hours between 8am and 6pm.
• The working pattern may be 4 long days or 5 7½ hour shifts.
• Service operates between 8am and 6pm, 7 days a week, but the successful candidate will work Monday to Friday.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5,000 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 best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

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