Clinical Lead, Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Clinical Lead for the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team. The role involves providing comprehensive assessments for elderly patients, leading a dynamic team, and ensuring high-quality service delivery. Ideal candidates will have strong clinical skills, experience in emergency care, and a commitment to patient-centered approaches. This position offers the chance to remain clinically active while developing future team opportunities.

Qualifications

• Registration and qualification in Nursing, Social Work, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, or Paramedic Sciences.
• Experience working with older or young people with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team in planning and evaluation.
• Assess elderly, frail patients with complex conditions.
• Conduct home visits and provide specific equipment.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Education

Diploma or degree in relevant profession

Postgraduate training in relevant fields

Job description

Clinical Lead, Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team

Employer: Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust | Location: United Kingdom | Salary: Competitive | Closing date: 15 May 2025

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Job summary

Are you a tenacious, confident, and flexible health professional with excellent clinical assessment skills? Can you lead by example and encourage leadership roles within your team? Do you work well autonomously and in an integrated, creative, and motivated team? If so, we would like to hear from you! You will serve as Clinical Lead within this dynamic, dual-funded integrated hybrid team, providing comprehensive geriatric assessments for our elderly & frail population, specializing in admission avoidance services and complex discharge planning covering all Emergency Access Areas of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, including the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care unit.

This role offers the opportunity to remain clinically active while working with the team lead to develop future opportunities for the team.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team, working with the Team Lead in planning, co-ordination, and evaluation of physiotherapy, nursing, and occupational therapy within the emergency access setting.
• Provide specialist clinical leadership for service delivery and development.
• Assess elderly, frail patients with complex multi-pathological conditions.
• Respond promptly to a bleep/mobile phone, ensuring safe and effective assessments to facilitate appropriate discharges.
• Ensure the team provides advanced physiotherapy, nursing, and occupational therapy assessments and diagnoses, especially for highly complex cases.
• Conduct home visits and provide specific equipment as needed.
• Train, educate, and support junior staff and students.
• Share leadership responsibilities with the QEH-employed counterpart to develop and evaluate the team.
• Participate in a seven-day working rota for the team.

About us

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Job description

Please see the attached full job description for detailed roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration and qualification in a relevant professional discipline (Nursing, Social Work, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Paramedic Sciences).
• Diploma or degree in relevant profession.
• Evidence of postgraduate training in relevant fields.
• CPD portfolio evidence.

Desirable: Master's level, accredited post-registration education in leadership or management.

Experience

• Experience working with older or young people with complex needs.
• Experience in Emergency or Unplanned care.
• Experience in change management, service development, discharge planning, caseload management, NHS priorities, HR processes, working with integrated services, and managing competing priorities.

Desirable: Senior level experience, service redesign, business case development, working under pressure.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, self-motivated, independent, collaborative, knowledge sharing.
• Audit, research, counseling skills (desirable).

Communication

• Negotiation, influencing, professional presentation, calm under pressure, computer skills.
• Communication in various formats and familiarity with local patient record systems (desirable).

Personal and People Development

• Delegation, recognizing potential, managing fast-paced services, commitment to the specialty.

Personal Attributes / Behaviours

• Safeguarding, role modeling, reliability, non-judgemental, committed to development, embodying organizational values.

Other requirements

• Work across a 7-day rota, manual handling, valid driving license, effective communication skills.

Additional information

This role is subject to DBS check and requires UK professional registration. Sponsorship considerations are welcome for eligible applicants.