Job Opportunity: Community Specialist Practitioner

SPA is looking for a Community Specialist Practitioner who shares its vision to progress remote clinical decision making within the community and provide a highly effective Urgent Community Response.

About SPA

SPA have been delivering a more effective urgent response, promoting, and championing a “Home is Best” ethos. We are working closely with system partners to deliver new ways of working such as Frailty-ACE and direct pathway from SWAST to Sirona. This role provides a key component to these services and will work onsite with Brisdoc at Osprey Court.

Role Description

We are utilising our Community Specialist Practitioners to provide remote clinical decision making and using their skills to best support patients. We are looking for a partner to support us in continuing to change the way we work to meet new demands and within this role there will be opportunities to develop your leadership skills, share your knowledge and passion for community practice, whilst also having opportunity to help shape and develop the service and your role within.

• Provide remote urgent assessment, treatment, and diagnosis of clinically deteriorating service users.
• Triage and evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
• Signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway, such as specialist services.
• Provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care for people who are complex and frail, with long term conditions who may present with urgent care needs.
• Provide robust clinical leadership to ensure high quality harm free care.
• Promote and champion use of digital technology in remote clinical assessment and decision making.
• Work collaboratively with the other CSPs
• Be responsible for the provision of relevant clinical training within the team which may include;
  • Supporting team performance in key identified areas including frailty and the assessment and management of long term conditions.
  • Support the development of advanced clinical practice within the team through the provision of education and clinical supervision.
  • Facilitate local and organisational audits, clinical investigations and RCAs relevant to clinical practice.
  • Work as an autonomous practitioner, actively using and promoting shared decision making and empowerment of service users, ensuring they have comprehensive, individualised care plans.