Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist
Job summary
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 Student education 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more details regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications · Essential
Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy HCPC Registered CSP member /RCOT Member Key
Skills · Essential
Advanced communication skills Key
Skills · Essential
Standard key board skills & the ability to use IT packages such as Word, Outlook, Power point & Excel
Qualifications · Essential
Evidence of post graduate training/qualification relevant to frailty Evidence of leadership or management training
Desirable
MSc in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
Experience · Essential
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
Desirable
Acute respiratory skills (E if physiotherapist) Experience in community-based roles
Knowledge · Essential
Of frailty syndromes and the principles of frailty management. Of the multi-disciplinary team within frailty Of services available to support effective discharge Key
Skills · Essential
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
Other · Essential
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
Other · Essential
Professional appearance & behaviour
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
