Consultant Practitioner - Intensive Home Support Service

This Consultant Clinical Practitioner (CCP) post is a key corporate leadership role within the Trust that reports to the Divisional Directors of Operations and Nursing, with additional professional and clinical accountability to the Chief Nurse and Medical Director.

Along with the Senior Management Team, the post holder will provide positive inspirational leadership, connecting patients, staff and partners with the vision and values of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust.

The Consultant Clinical Practitioner Post will be characterised by four principal role functions as indicated by the multi-professional framework for consultant practice (Health Education England; 2021)

Expert clinical practice (the consultant's main health- or social-care profession)

Strategic and enabling leadership

Learning, developing and improving across the system

Research and innovation

The post holder will continue to practice clinically as a consultant level practitioner within their area of practice to provide and maintain clinical expertise and credibility. They will practice independently and autonomously seeing a wide variety of clientele within their portfolio. In addition to the expert clinical practice provided, this will maintain and support the wider objectives of their role.

• To autonomously provide expert, holistic clinical assessment and treatment for a caseload of patients To administer highly specialist and complex assessments to formulate care plans across a range of conditions and co-morbidities. To interpret and analyse highly complex clinical and non-clinical facts, which may be conflicting.
• To use expertise in clinical reasoning and decision making, integration of clinical best practice and drawing on research evidence to appropriately combine the clinical opinion from a range of professionals within the integrated team, with the aim of delivering effective and efficient integrated care, reducing duplication, unwarranted variance and inequity.
• To establish multi-disciplinary and multi-agency integrated care pathways across the integrated care system for the management of over 18s, through liaison with health and social care external partners using advanced theoretical and practical knowledge. To use expertise to demonstrate impact of such pathways and to share best practice both nationally and internationally.
• To utilise in depth knowledge of the roles and responsibilities across the multi-disciplinary clinical team to include but not limited to Community Services, General Practice, Care Homes and Allied Health Professionals to support the development of efficient and effective pathways of care.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust aims to deliver the highest quality care to patients. We employ dedicated staff, some of which have won awards for their work and are internationally renowned. With the support of our staff and the public, we have ambitious plans to continue to raise the standard of patient care and services.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Family and Community Care Group (FCCG) to join our dynamic and forward-thinking services as a Consultant Practitioner. We are expanding our Out of Hospital Services and growing our award-winning Intensive Home Support Service, including Hospital at Home pathways. IHSS has medical cover to support acute interventions: IV therapies, ultra sound scanning, ECG and point of care testing.

As patients are living longer with more complex needs, the NHS has adapted to meet this growing need; ensuring patients have more choice, equitable access to services, and their needs met in their usual place of residence. This allows for hospital admissions to be reduced, creating capacity within our hospitals and emergency departments, to ensure that patients' needs are met at the right time, by the right person and in the right place.

IHSS is an integrated multidisciplinary team operating 24/7 via varying shift patterns. This service is supported by a dedicated single point of access (SPoA) Intermediate Care Allocation Team (ICAT) comprising of social care coordinators and other health and social care professionals

As outlined in the Multi-professional consultant-level practice capability and impact framework (HEE 2020) the postholder will firmly establish values-based professional practice across pathways, services, organisations and systems, working with individuals, families, carers, communities and others. They will influence how joined-up future health-care systems are developed, locally, regionally and nationally, based on the four pillars, and guide how care and services are commissioned and transformed.

The post holder will take a leading role in the development of staff potential, transforming the workforce, acting as a key resource for encouraging cultural change and interdisciplinary and system learning and influencing higher-education curriculums. They will support people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to…