Specialist Frailty Therapist

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Oldham; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave allowance

Flexible working

Protected hours for wellbeing

Job summary

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust in Oldham is seeking a Band 7 Specialist Therapist for Frailty Same Day Emergency Care at Oldham Royal Hospital. You will contribute to a 7-day roster, supporting frail older patients with CGA and early discharge planning within the Frailty SDEC service.

Join a multidisciplinary team including Geriatricians, ACPs, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and community services to deliver timely discharges and reduce unnecessary admissions.

Qualifications

• Must be able to perform comprehensive CGA assessments for frail older adults.
• Proven ability to manage priorities in a busy acute care setting.
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary frailty pathway.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support to patients and families across the Frailty Pathway.
• Balance clinical and operational duties, including service development.
• Work with the MDT to deliver CGA and proactive discharge planning.
• Initiate and support early discharge plans with community services.
• Deliver frailty education, training and staff development.

Skills

Frailty CGA

Time management

Discharge planning

Team collaboration

Job description

This is a full time Band 7 Specialist Therapist post working in Frailty Same Day Emergency Care at the Oldham Royal Hospital. This role is part of a key development in delivering specialised frailty input to frail, older patients presenting to ED, over a 7-day working pattern. The Band 7 therapist will be included in the 7-day working roster, which involves working up to 1 weekend every 4 weeks. They will work across Urgent and Emergency Care within a team that consists of a Geriatrician, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Nurse, Therapist, Pharmacist and Therapy Assistant/Coordinator as well as with Oldham community and social services in delivering timely same day discharges, specialist input to frail patients; effecting appropriate admission avoidance and early, pro-active CGA for patients who may need admission to appropriate wards. Post holder will be the Senior Frailty Clinician within an Acute Frailty Service, facilitating efficient, effective and coordinated assessment and treatment of frail older adults in the Frailty SDEC. The role demands the commitment to:

• Provide clinical support to patients, their families/carers and health professionals involved across the Frailty Pathway.
• Require highly skilled time management and priority skills due to frequent interruptions of job tasks during the working day and balancing of clinical and operational duties, including service development.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team to provide early and pro-active Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) to patients Providing a holistic assessment will include clinical, social, functional, emotion and cognitive elements as documented within the CGA.
• Utilise the CGA knowledge gained to initiate and facilitate early discharge plans in collaboration with community services, ensuring that patients' needs are met and likelihood of unnecessary readmission is reduced.
• Ensure all patients receive timely assessments and screening, supporting and providing training information in Frailty.
• Provide advanced assessment and discharge planning of patients who may have complex and or chronic conditions.
• Support the delivery of frailty service audit, service improvement initiatives and provide Frailty education, training and staff development

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care,appreciateandinspire- to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction.

By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including,

• a fantastic annual leave allowance
• flexible working opportunities
• protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.