Senior Frailty Practitioner OT

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Frailty Occupational Therapist Band 7 depending on experience and qualifications
Do you have a passion for working with older people living with frailty?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Integrated Frailty Team at Wexham NHS Foundation Trust. The Frailty team consists of Geriatricians, Advanced Clinical practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Therapy Assistants. The team provides specialist assessment and treatment to patients with Frailty within the emergency department, acute assessment unit, and the Frailty SDEC
The Frailty team remains at the forefront of aligning with the national strategy for improving upon the existing processes involved in the identification of frailty and in the coordination of care between different Community and hospital teams to deliver better experiences and outcomes for our patients.
The successful candidates will be joining a friendly and supportive team. They will be encouraged to contribute to developing and improving the service. The role will provide opportunities for learning and development, including supervision from experienced advanced practitioners.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will have at least 4 years of work experience in an acute hospital with older adults. Applicants with the right skill set are welcome.
You will provide high-quality person-centered care that always considers people’s safety, privacy, and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence-based.
To undertake Comprehensive specialist holistic assessments for individuals presenting with frailty within the acute care setting, to create an individualized agreed management plan, incorporating pharmacological considerations, long-term conditions management, frailty syndrome prevention and management, diagnostic reasoning, and initiating onward referral to specialist teams as appropriate.
To provide advanced clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgment, critical analysis, and decision-making skills.
The successful candidates will be joining a friendly and supportive team. They will be encouraged to contribute to developing and improving the service. The role will provide opportunities for learning and development, including supervision from experienced advanced practitioners.
This is a permanent role
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .
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.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential
Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
HCPC Registration
Desirable
Masters level or equivalent training in a specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in a specialist area
Experience
Essential
Clinical experience in acute setting or community services commensurate to the responsibilities of the role at an advanced level.
Evidence of continuing professional development and post-registration education and training.
Experience in audit.
Proven leadership skills in managing and developing teams
Advanced performance in a range of clinical skills in working in elderly medicine, acute care, frailty
Specialist experience in A & E, Acute medicine, frailty, and or admission avoidance
Skills & Abilities
Essential
Advanced specialist knowledge, understanding, and application of the Therapy process within Emergency and Acute Medical care relating to client-centred practice.
Demonstrate evidence of a high standard of understanding and performance in managing the complications of frailty.
Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge, application, and analysis of standardised and non-standardized tests
Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure especially in relation to those with a limited prognosis or complex care
Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities.
Experience of working within multi-disciplinary diagnostic and intervention services
Demonstrate excellent leadership, organisational, managerial and team performance skills
Desirable
Experience with Excel spreadsheets, data analysis and reporting
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Maximum score 2
Registered Occupational Therapist HCPC
Desirable criteria
Maximum score 2
Master’s level or working towards an equivalent trainin

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