Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (Fixed term if external)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (60% Emergency Department - 40% DREEAM)
- Job ref
- 164-6602797-A
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QMC Campus
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Department Embedded Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
Within Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) at Nottingham University Hospitals we are committed to implementing a proactive approach to health improvement and prevention. We recognise that an attendance to the Emergency Department is an opportunity to make every contact count and are committed to addressing health inequities experienced by people accessing all areas of UEC. The UEC Health Improvement Collaborative was formed to oversee population health projects, initiatives and pathways within the Directorate.
This new position is a collaboration between Changing Futures and Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. The post holder will be employed by NUH and based in the Emergency Department (ED) and within the Health Improvement Collaborative (HIC) Hub in DREEAM. The HIC Hub is a physical space, near ED, where practitioners focused on prevention/ health improvement can collaborate and share best practice.
The role will be divided 60:40% between the Emergency Department (ED) and DREEAM.
In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
Main duties of the job
The DREEAM element will be based predominantly in the HIC Hub, working closely with the education and research teams, providing expertise on SMD to support education, training and research. The post holder will be part of a team, led by the Health Improvement Research and Education Lead, undertaking a health needs analysis on the population attending Urgent and Emergency Care Settings at NUH. This project will inform the planned bid for a team (‘one team) in ED/UEC, which will work with Trust and ICS partners to meet and address needs around the wider determinants of health.
The post holder will join the Health Improvement Collaborative and will provide expertise on SMD. This post will help to accelerate system change in Nottingham, facilitating collaboration between services across the system. The post holder will ensure we can maximise opportunities or personalised care within UEC leading to better outcomes for individuals experiencing SMD.
Whilst employed by NUH, the post holder will be supported and report to the wider Changing Futures team. Changing Futures is a specialist programme providing intensive direct support to people experiencing SMD, while supporting the coordination of statutory and non-statutory services including housing, probation, mental health, primary care and substance use to work around the needs of people experiencing SMD.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Develop a good understanding of the support offer available for people experiencing SMD accessing UEC services.
Help to review and optimise referral or signposting pathways into community services for people impacted by SMD. These must be appropriate for 24/7 UEC services, such as ED.
Be a key point of contact and provide advice to UEC staff on the support and services available for clients experiencing SMD, signposting to agencies and services as appropriate.
Where appropriate, provide advice and support to individual clients, referring them into services and support opportunities.
Work closely with a network of staff working across housing, social care, mental health, the police and primary care ensuring a joined-up approach to care and support for people experiencing SMD.
Where appropriate, refer patients to, and attend the SMD Wraparound Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT).
Act as an SMD champion, raising awareness of SMD and facilitating change to overcome blockages and improve access to support.
Work with people with lived experience of SMD to ensure pathways are co-designed and meets their needs.
Support the design and delivery of education to clinical staff on SMD, trauma and psychologically informed practice, with a focus on reducing stigma and improving patient experience.
Foster relationships between DREEAM and the Changing Futures’ Practice Development Unit (PDU)
Represent UEC at events focused on SMD
Collaborate with evaluation and research staff to support the evaluation of this position
Work alongside the UEC Health Improvement Team to identify unmet health needs for the UEC population and support with data collection.
Attend meetings and events coordinated by the Changing Futures teams to promote collaborative working and shared learning with other Embedded Practitioners.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to post graduate degree level or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Formal qualification in health or social care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people that are experiencing SMD
- Significant experience of services in Nottingham that provide support for people that experience SMD
- Significant experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of developing and delivering training opportunities to a range of staff groups
- Experience of working with diverse communities, including BAME communities.
- Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting.
- High level understanding of SMD and how that can impact on people’s lives on their engagement with support services.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of conducting audits, evaluations or research
- Previous experience of working within an acute care setting
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Ability to deal with and communicate highly sensitive and confidential information to colleagues/staff, key partners, external organisations as necessary.
- Excellent motivational and facilitation skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of engaging service users and the public.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with a range of people in different settings.
- The desire and ability to work positively and effectively with a range of professionals across Health and Social Care boundaries.
- Proven experience of engaging and working with a range of communities (including diverse and minority ethnic communities) in the Statutory/Voluntary Sectors.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Good presentations skills including ability to deliver to a large and varied audience.
- Ability to write reports, develop plans, IT and keyboard/software packages (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and templates) – including use of software for information storage/updates and the development of reports.
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and a complex and varied workload.
- Highly motivated individual with good time-management skills
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Frequent sitting for substantial proportion of working time.
- Ability to travel across Trust sites and sites within Nottingham City
- Keyboard skills, and regular use of visual display monitors
- Has the physical ability to perform the full range of duties
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Frequent sitting for substantial proportion of working time.
- Ability to travel across Trust sites and sites within Nottingham City
- Keyboard skills, and regular use of visual display monitors
- Has the physical ability to perform the full range of duties
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential criteria
- Requirement to concentrate for long periods e.g. during meetings or whilst reading, writing or analysing service-related documentation
- Need to manage conflicting priorities and interruptions to deal with service issues at short notice to respond to pressing demands
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Morris
- Job title
- Health Improvement, Research and Education Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812 277097
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