Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Full time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 151-CG-193-A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Frailty Occupational Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting role for an experienced Occupation Therapist to work within the multidisciplinary frailty team. The Frailty Team is responsible for providing Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments and advice to older people attending the acute hospital trust with a frailty syndrome (e.g. falls, reduced mobility, altered cognition, new incontinence and polypharmacy). You will work collaboratively with, and be supported by, the Consultant Nurse, Consultant Geriatricians, GPs and a team of multidisciplinary frailty practitioners that includes nurses, medics, physiotherapists, and a pharmacist).
You will work within the Emergency Department assessing older patients who have experienced a frailty crisis leading to hospital admission. You will also work within the hospital providing advice or a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for older people with frailty on wards.
This post would suit an OT with experience of elderly care, emergency medicine and/or a rehabilitation background, but we would welcome applications from a variety of clinical backgrounds. Training will be provided to ensure that you are able to complete all aspects of the frailty practitioner role under the guidance of a senior clinician.
The frailty service operates 7 days a week, currently 7am-5pm (soon to expand to an 8-8 service model). The post holder will be required to work within these operating hours, including sharing weekend and bank holiday cover with the other members of the team.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments for individuals presenting with a frailty crisis and their carers where needs are highly complex. This will involve planning, implementing, and evaluating the care delivery according to changing healthcare need
- To provide evidence-based holistic assessment and treatment planning for patients with frailty referred to the service, without direct supervision.
- To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues, specifically primary care and community teams and Social Care professionals, to lead and facilitate a patient focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.
- To provide expertise in their own discipline to the wider team and seek professional supervision from colleagues within their professional discipline.
- To complete onward referrals to specialist teams, assess for and order any necessary equipment as appropriate for the longer-term maintenance and prevention of further frailty crises.
- To advise on the promotion of health and prevention of illness, providing information to individuals and groups to prevent disease, within own professional boundaries. Recognise situations that may be detrimental to health for example housing, social and economic factors and refer to an appropriate agency and liaise with members of the community care teams.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
- To provide evidence-based holistic assessment and treatment planning for patients with frailty referred to the service, without direct supervision.
- Use assessment tools/skills that will ensure an appropriate level of recovery intervention so that patients who present with highly complex needs are timely referred to the appropriate clinicians/teams
- Complete complex risk assessments, both as an independent clinician and drawing on the wider MDT as appropriate
- Complex manual handling including urgent prescription of specialist equipment to manage immediate risks to patients during a crisis situation
- Profession-specific assessments, generalist assessments and, where appropriate and within scope of extended practice, cross-profession assessments to maintain patient safety during acute medical / social crisis
- Refer to appropriate clinical services to ensure patient safety is maintained
Non-clinical:
- Promote and contribute to our open reflective learning culture by supporting and educating others within the multidisciplinary team, particularly those from different professional backgrounds.
- Review effectiveness of clinical care provided ensuring that patient safety is maintained and care delivery meets the standards required by the Trust and the Care Quality Commission.
- Monitor the quality of care planning, implementation and evaluation to ensure optimum quality is maintained.
- Maintain and always follow the standards within the HCPC code of conduct to ensure safe and effective delivery of patient care.
- To remain up to date and within guidelines for revalidation/re-registration as required by professional bodies at all times.
- Recognises own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patient’s needs, referring to other healthcare professionals accordingly and is accountable for his/her own action.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Allied Health Professional (Occupational Therapist
- • Post-registration experience (at Band 6) in a range of clinical areas
Desirable criteria
- • Post registration experience of elderly care, emergency medicine and/or a rehabilitation background
- • Evidence of teaching / mentorship roles
- • Management/Leadership/Qualification/development programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Relevant post registration experience
- • Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people
- • Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care / community setting.
- • Evidence of innovative practice
- • Participates in regular clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- • Involved in the implementation and management of change.
- • Experience of initiation of participating in clinical audit. Research relating to clinical practice.
- • Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates an understanding and insight into current issues and developments within the NHS, and particularly within Frailty.
- • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- • Broad range of enhanced clinical skills
- • Ability to advocate patient issues.
- • Ability to demonstrate leadership skills.
- • Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to priorities.
- • Ability to understanding and interpret research findings/evidence-based care and applies to practice.
- • Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management
- • Computer literate including emails and spreadsheets.
- • Effective written and verbal communication skills
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work well in stressful situations.
- • Assertive
- • Commitment to attend training as learning needs are identified.
- • Reliable and flexible
- • Innovative and adaptable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Duvall
- Job title
- Frailty lead for FPH
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920757286
- Additional information
Email preferable form of communication.
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