Clincial Lead, Urgent Care Hub, Band 6

Please switch to a desktop device before starting your application.
Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist?

The Urgent Care Hub is expanding and we are looking for a Band 6 Clinical Lead to join the team (full time and part time opportunities available) managing the functional and organic adult mental health beds across Somerset. The Urgent Care Hub currently consists of a Team Manager and 2 Clinical Assistants and operates 9-5 Monday to Friday but these hours are likely to extend on successful recruitment to this post.

The Urgent Care Hub role is to support admissions and discharges from the adult and older persons’ wards and provide a clear pathway throughout the patient journey with a clear focus on flow.

The hub receives all requests for admission to hospital from HTT, IDSS and AMHPs, discusses the role and expectations of the admission before identifying the most appropriate bed for the patient. The team is in daily liaison with all of the wards, home treatment teams and other agencies including the voluntary sector, to ensure that potential barriers or delays to discharge are kept to a minimum. The aim is to ensure that patients will have a reduced length of stay leading to lower bed occupancy levels and ensuring that patients receive ongoing care within the community setting. The hub also manage the admissions into our "Step Up" and "Step Down" beds in Yeovil and Wells respectively.

Team members must have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills. They must be flexible, creative and responsive to managing the changing needs of the service which will be challenging at times. A "can do" attitude, the ability to build relationships with other services, and an aptitude for making sometimes difficult decisions is required. It is necessary that the applicant is mobile across the county and therefore must have a driving license.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Sallie Jenkins
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: sallie.jenkins@somersetft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07825 431168

Additional contact information

Helen Surridge

Deputy Operational Service Manager, Countywide Home Treatment & Urgent Care Hub

07584382871

helen.surridge@somersetft.nhs.uk

If you are successful for interview, you will be required to bring ID, proof of essential qualifications / relevant documents with you (More details will follow)

Our values are simple: Outstanding Care, Working Together, Listening and Leading

We recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource, we are proud of the excellent levels of service our Trust provides to our service users and the dedication and conscientious of our staff. With this in mind, we offer a range of staff benefits - please visit our website.

By submitting your application to NHS Jobs/Trac, you are giving your consent for elements of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation; to be used by Recruitment for purposes of checking your Professional Registration online (where applicable) including all electronically held NHS service and sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process.

These processes are in line with Fair and Lawful processing and with the Data Protection Act (2018) principles especially those in relation to your personal or sensitive personal data (sensitive personal data is defined as any declared physical or mental health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, trade union membership, political opinion, religious beliefs). Other principles under Data Protection will be observed such as use of data for specific, defined purposes, and use of data that is relevant and not excessive whilst practicing data accuracy and security of all held personal identifiable information (PII)