Community Practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home

Community practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home: Permanent (37.5 hours) The Discharge to Assess team are looking for a Registered Nurse, to fulfil an exciting opportunity within the community in Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. We need people who share our excitement, embrace different ways of working and are able to work flexibly across organisational boundaries. An opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse - Band 6, to work flexibly within the Discharge To Assess/Intermediate Care at Home Team. The Discharge To Assess element is a multi-professional service who assess patients upon discharge from hospital in the community. We provide individualised care to meet the person's needs and facilitate transfer for onward care into the appropriate service: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies. The Intermediate Care at Home Team provide nursing and therapy rehabilitation to patients within the Stockport community., The Discharge to Assess element: to support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or another community setting. Assessment for longer-term care and support needs is then undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person. We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team. The Rehabilitation Element incorporates a free, short-term rehabilitation service for adults to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. This role will require the post holder to be flexible to cover all areas within the Discharge to Assess service, covering 7 days .

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

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