Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
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North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist to join the Frailty Service on Ward C16. The role is part-time (22.5/18 hours per week) and offers development opportunities for a Band 6 or experienced clinician.
You will use advanced assessment and multidisciplinary teamwork to deliver rapid assessments, CGA, and planning to minimise hospital stays and support swift discharge home. Interviews in person.
Qualifications
- Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registration
- Postgraduate qualification or MSc in frailty or related field
- Experience leading or supervising staff
- NHS frailty or acute hospital experience
Responsibilities
- Lead rapid assessments for frailty patients
- Support Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments (CGA)
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for optimal discharge
- Provide supervision and CPD development
- Represent Frailty service within regional networks
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Job description
Are you passionate and driven to deliver exceptional patient care? Do you relish a challenge? This exciting role could be for you.
Our Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) Front of House team are looking for part-time (22.5/18 hours per week) Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist or an experienced Band 6 seeking a development post to join our service focusing Frailty.
This role uses excellent assessment skills, communication and teamwork to support the frailty service in delivering Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments, preventing deconditioning and supporting a rapid turnaround to minimise hospital stays and facilitate patients to their return home and prevent unnecessary lengthy admissions to hospital wherever possible.
We are invested in enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge and skills as well as developing your leadership skills by offering;
Supervision
Job plan with protected SPA time
CPD opportunities
Regional networking
If you would like further information, please contact Julie Flint, Emergency & Medicine Therapy Service Lead on julieflint@nhs.net
Interviews for this role will be conducted in person to assess relevant skills effectively.
The Frailty Serviceon Ward C16provides a specialised area for rapid assessmentoffrail patients. This short-term unit will supportappropriate patientsfor up to 72 hours providingthem withassessments and tests asappropriate toensure the best next stepsare in placeas they go onto receive care in the community.
When afrail older patientisadmittedinto our hospital,theyare atanincreased risk of the negative effects of being in hospital. These include hospital-acquired-deconditioning (wasting of the muscles due to moving less), delirium (new confusion), falling over,and hospitalacquiredinfections. As a result, patients can become more dependent and require a significant increase in the support theyneedtoleave hospital.
To reduce this risk,our Frailty Servicehas beencreated in collaboration with local healthcare partnersto offer personalised comprehensive assessmentand carethat avoids unnecessary admission to hospital.
The serviceis one element ofcollaborativeworkto ensure older adults havetimelyaccess to specialised assessment in the mostappropriate location.
The Frailty Service on Ward C16 forms just one part of a system-wide frailty operating model for North Place Partnership, built on five interdependent components designed to deliver proactive, person-centred, and integrated care across the whole pathway--from prevention to crisis response.
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role.
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registered
- CSP member /RCOT Member
- Advanced communication skills
- Standard key board skills & the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, Power point & Excel
- Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to frailty
- Evidence of leadership or management training
- MSc in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
- NHS experience working at specialist clinical level in frailty
- Experience within acute hospital environment
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Demonstrate active involvement in QI/Audit/research
- Managing change
- Supervising/line management members of staff/students
- Experience of developing staff and sharing knowledge
- Working within networks/collaborating with other agencies
- Acute respiratory skills (E if physiotherapist)
- Experience in community-based roles
- Of frailty syndromes and the principles of frailty management.
- Of the multi-disciplinary team within frailty
- Of services available to support effective discharge
- Ability to undertake rapid assessments in a busy environment
- Excellent managerial and leadership skills including management of change
- Ability to recognise and manage own resilience
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Leadership and motivational skills
- High level of clinical reasoning
- Ability to present information in a logical and concise manner
- Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients and relatives cultural, religious and emotional needs and beliefs
- Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours
- Be prepared to work across sites as and when required
- Good previous attendance record
- Ability to work across 7 days a week
- Professional appearance & behaviour
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Emergency and Medicine Therapy Service Lead
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