Specialist Occupational Therapist​/Physiotherapist

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

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 support appropriate patients for up to 72 hours providing them with assessments and tests as appropriate 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 Service has been created in collaboration with local healthcare partners to offer personalised comprehensive assessment and carethat avoids unnecessary admission to hospital.

The serviceis one element ofcollaborativeworkto ensure older adults havetimelyaccess to specialised assessment in the most appropriate 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 with in 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…