An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Central Manchester Crisis Response Team.
The post holder will be responsible for providing a rapid assessment and stabilisation of patients who have urgent care needs in the community and initiate services to safely avoid unnecessary hospitalisation. This will be through assessment and treatment of patients during a crisis, identifying complex and specialist needs and developing, implement and evaluating programmes of care.
Perform comprehensive assessment of patients with diverse physical, social & medical presentations to provide a clinical assessment and evidence based intervention and effective discharge management.
Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care, and that of junior staff and students within the service.
Undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with diverse or complex medical presentations and multi-pathologies using analysis, clinical reasoning skills, manual handling techniques and listening skills to receive complex & sensitive details from patients to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
To use confident decision – making skills to contribute to the multi-disciplinary decision making process to rapidly determine suitable discharge destination or to determine an appropriate place of
admission if admission avoidance is not possible. Good awareness of limitations of own knowledge and skills and when to escalate to senior clinicians.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andrew Clarke Job title: Team Lead Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0161 529 6220
