Job overview

You will be assessing patients in this job on your own to determine their acuity and their progress in following their treatment plan or recovery goals.

Provide clinically sound interventions such as catheterisation, physical assessments, tissue viability assessment and care, phlebotomy, ECG recording and basic interpretation and physical assessments. 

Exhibit safe clinical decision-making, including evaluation and diagnostic abilities.

You will be interpreting test results and making clinical decision autonomously using your evidence based clinical knowledge.

Each day you will benefit from and actively participate in a Geriatrician led MDT that includes PTs, OTs, Nurses, associate actioners and pharmacists.

You will be expected to see patients in their own home independently with support from the MDT and wider ECP services.

As a centre of excellence, you will deliver a person-centred approach to their independence and wellbeing.

Part of this role will include triaging patients who are referred from different stakeholders such as GPs, London ambulance Services and acute hospitals.

Being part of ECP you will work in A&E to identify patient appropriate for rapid response and prevent in hospital admission avoidance. You will also work closely with DNs, TVN, community therapy, End of Life care amongst others allowing you to make meaningful treatment plans for our patients.

Main duties of the job

•    Independent home visits or joint visit if needed.
•    Undertake physical assessments of patient, diagnose, plan, carry out, and review the care given to patients who have undifferentiated diagnoses.
•    Making decisions independently based on your evaluation, diagnosis, and interpretation of test results.
•    Documentation
•    Provide support to wider MDT 
•    Act as first point of contact (SPA) for the Rapid Response and Admission Avoidance Service.
•    Discharge patient safely from the caseload by completing the discharge summaries and informing the patient.
•    You will have opportunities to provide supervision and line management to agreed cohort Rehabilitation Support Workers.
•    Ensuring safer staffing on a day to day basis in absence of band 7s.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and   Hammersmith & Fulham).  We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.