Compass Medical Practice also provides medical cover to temporary patients residing at Thornton House. These are short term patients that are residing at Thornton house for either rehab, rest or recouperation. There is a weekly ward round and multidisciplinary team meeting. Compass Medical practice also offers medical support throughout the week, outside of the ward round, during opening hours.

Our homeless health service is nurse led and is operates on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from the Salvation Army in central Blackpool. The nursing team take a multidisciplinary approach, often working with wider services to meet the needs of a complex patient cohort who are facing multiple disadvantage.

The Targeted demand management (TDM) service supports people across Blackpool to address clinical and non-clinical factors increasing their risk of an unplanned hospitalisation.

Key aims of TDM are to provide clinical and non-clinical interventions that meet the needs of individuals identified in Blackpool with the following respiratory or cardiovascular long-term conditions. The TDM service, through reducing individual risk, will play a role in relieving pressure on acute services, through preventing health crises.

Day to Day Duties to include, but not exhaustive:

• To provide proactive reviews and support for patients with CVD and / or COPD in line with clinical competence and local pathways
• To initiate prescribed medication and amend medication when required.
• Undertake holistic health assessments, identifying physical, mental and social needs
• Deliver health prevention and health promotion interventions including lifestyle advice (alcohol, smoking, diet and physical activity), weight management and wellbeing support, Opportunistic screening and vaccination advice
• Identify unmet needs and escalating health concerns, taking appropriate actions
• Deliver care within the mobile clinical unit adapting consultations to a community-based environment
• Support people who present to the mobile unit by providing assessment and advise where appropriate, signposting and referring to the most suitable service when out the scope of practice and offering reassurance, health information and ongoing support
• Promote self-management and empower patients to engage with health services
• Accurately record all activity, assessments and outcomes on EMIS using appropriate clinical coding and templates
• Maintain confidentiality and data protection standards
• Maintain Current NMC registration adhering to the NMC code of conduct
• Work autonomously withing scope of practice, escalating concerns appropriately
• Participate in supervision, appraisal and continuing professional development
• Contribute to service development, evaluation and quality improvement initiatives

Multidisciplinary Working

Work collaboratively with other Blackpool Based organisations such as Healthwatch, PCN Social Prescribers, Community Nursing, Housing Intervention teams.

Participate when required in multidisciplinary team for patients experiencing homelessness.

Our key expectations are:

• Self-awareness Living authentically
• Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
• Openness What you see is what you get
• Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
• Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
• Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

• Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
• Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!
• Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
• Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
• Oomph: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!
• Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

DBS

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence). For Driver positions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Working in Primary Care / GP Practice
• Ability to use EMIS computer system
• Health Promotion
• Understanding of health inequalities.
• Long Term Condition Monitoring

Desirable

• Experience of a multi-disciplinary approach to working
• Experience in case management
• Experience of working with socioeconomically disadvantaged populations

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• NMC
• Wound care
• Observation monitoring
• Venepuncture
• Long term condition management
• NMP V300

Desirable

• Spirometry accreditation
• Feno Testing
• Acute presentation management

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Willing / able to attend appropriate training
• Commitment to own personal development
• Able to exercise initiative in organisation and prioritising
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Good Interpersonal skills
• Basic IT skills Enthusiastic and committed about the role
• Flexible
• Promote the Service with its ever expansion
• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues

Desirable

• Willing to try new IT systems in the future for consultations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.