Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

 Please note this is a fixed term position - 3-months winter post

The post holder will work between the clinical areas of the Emergency Department (ED), Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC), Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) and Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) as an autonomous practitioner within the standards of professional practice laid down by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and/or Royal College of Occupational Therapy and  Health and Care Professions Council.  They will have  extensive knowledge and experience of working with frail older adults, and be able to undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with a diverse range of complex presentations and multiple pathologies and patients presenting with frailty syndrome.

Main duties of the job

·         To work between the clinical areas of the Emergency Department (ED), Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC), Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) and Acute Assessment Unit (AAU).

·         To work as part of the MDT and as a lone clinician with their own caseload

·         To have extensive knowledge and working relationships with our community partners and make appropriate and timely referrals.

·         Undertakes a specialised therapy assessment of frail older patients, working in conjunction with other therapists, social services, medical and nursing colleagues, and community partners to treat patients who have complex presentations

·         From this assessment, formulates a treatment plan and carries out this treatment as an autonomous practitioner

·         To assess and discharge patients in a timely and appropriate manner with involvement and referrals out to our community services as part of our admission avoidance service.

·         Working closely with other members of the MDT, taking an active role in identifying, coordinating and organising appropriate care and equipment in the home and hospital set up needed to ensure the safe and timely discharge of patient from the acute Hospital.

·         To support the expansion of the FSDEC service across 7-days, including weekend working. The post holder will work 37.5 hours per week as part of a seven-day service covering the hours of 8am to 8pm based on a rota system.

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Working for our organisation

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated “Outstanding” for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

We have approximately 350 beds and directly employ around 2,900 staff. Our trust provides a full range of diagnostic services and treatment services. Our main site is the Kingston Hospital site but we also run a number of outpatient clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington.