Job summary

Bank Staff

Rapid response in Gloucestershire are an exciting team, caring for people with a range of complex health and social care issues, and working alongside a variety of dynamic community and secondary care professionals. This role would be perfect for a professional looking to develop their skills and experience, managing and treating patients in the community in order to avoid admissions into an acute hospital whilst delivering a two hour urgent care response time.

As a Rapid Response Clinician, you will have excellent clinical skills, experience of monitoring and managing deteriorating patients and problem-solving skills to manage challenging situations. The successful applicant will work across our communities in Gloucestershire.

Main duties of the job

Rapid Response provides a Countywide service to manage and treat patients who present with an acute illness or exacerbation of a long-term condition. Rapid Response service also delivers a falls pick up service for people experiencing both non-injurious and minor injury falls. Our aim is to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. Our passion for delivering care services of the highest quality to our local communities is further developing and we are striving to deliver new models of service. We offer a great team environment, learning and development opportunities along with clinical supervision support. Development of our staff is fundamental to the running of our service effectively and we will invest our time in your future.

Rapid Response Clinicians work a range of shift patterns and shift duration is 10.5 hours.

Applicants must have post registration clinical experience, cannulation, phlebotomy and IV administration skills are essential. You should be an adaptable team player and possess excellent problem solving, communication and IT skills. Community experience is desirable but not essential as a full and comprehensive induction program will be provided, A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport with insurance for business purposes is essential.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.