Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team Lead

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; North End; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Clinical Lead for the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The role involves providing specialist clinical knowledge and leadership to a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring efficient delivery of services for elderly patients. Candidates should demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and experience in assessing complex cases. The position involves training junior staff and participating in a seven-day working rota. This role is vital for enhancing patient care and operational efficiency in emergency settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical roles, particularly with frail elderly patients.
• Ability to balance competing priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Clinical for Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.
• Provide assessments for elderly patients with complex needs.
• Train and support junior staff and students.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Interpersonal skills

Assessment of elderly patients

Job description

An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team based in the emergency access areas of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, providing Clinical expertise, specialising in Admission Avoidance Services for the Frail elderly population.

The post holder is required to provide the Clinical Lead role in an integrated multi-professional admission avoidance team located within the Emergency Care & Assessment Areas based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The post holder will be required to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skill in the communication, negotiation and delivery of a multi-stakeholder service.

Within the job role, there will be a need to undertake practice clinically at a high level dealing with highly complex patients and also operationally in ensuring the delivery of the service is well led, efficiently delivered and continually monitored.

There will be a need to balance competing priorities of stakeholders, patients, relatives and others, whilst supporting the staff within the service and maintaining close networks of support services.

Main duties of the job

• Take the role of Clinical Lead for RAFT, working with the Team Lead in the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the physiotherapy nursing and occupational therapy specialities within the emergency access setting. Providing a Specialist Clinical Lead role for service delivery & development.
• Provide specialist clinical knowledge & experience in assessing elderly, frail patients who often present with multi-pathological problems, including delirium, medical/respiratory/neurological or musculo-skeletal conditions.
• Respond to a bleep or mobile phone and provide a prompt and effective assessment within agreed standards to ensure the most appropriate and safe discharge to home or other suitable environment.
• Ensure the team provides advanced combined physiotherapy, nursing & occupational therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients within the speciality with an emphasis on those with highly complex and/or chronic presentation.
• Train, educate and support Band 5, Band 6 physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, assistant practitioners, therapy assistants, students and other healthcare professionals.
• Share the leadership role with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital employed counterpart to plan, develop, co-ordinate and evaluate the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.
• Organise, implement and actively support and take part in the seven day working rota for the integrated Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.

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