Senior Physiotherapist Medicine for Older Persons Service

at  Mater Hospital

To manage, organise, and co-ordinate the Physiotherapy Medicine for the Older Person service, to include patients on the Specialist Geriatric Ward (SGW) and outlier wards.
 To work collaboratively with the other senior Physiotherapist of the service and the FIT Clinical Specialist.
 To complement existing frailty and older person services to provide standardised high quality and evidence based physiotherapy package of care to all frail and older persons presenting to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH).
 To seek to continuously optimise care and outcomes for all frail and older persons presenting to MMUH, working with close collaboration between SGW, FIT and outlier services.
 To ensure that streaming of older persons is reviewed and analysed on a continual basis to ensure older persons receive the appropriate interventions.
 To provide targeted interventions and case management to frail and older persons admitted to MMUH under various medical specialities.
 To facilitate timely, safe and appropriate discharge of patients from hospital.
 To seek to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, reduce hospital length of stay and to reduce re-presentation to the Emergency Department.
 To ensure appropriate and efficient transfer of care of patients into and out of the service.
 To be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and to establish close collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders.
 To provide physiotherapy leadership within the MDT and to the Physiotherapy Department especially in terms of clinical governance.
 To work in an advisory capacity and as a central resource to HSCP, medical directorates and regional or national agencies.
 To lead on service development, using evidence based practice, audit, lean methodology, risk assessment and implementation of change as required.
 To lead on development and education of the physiotherapy team and to support education and training of basic grade and assistant staff and of Physiotherapy undergraduate and post-graduate clinical education and that of the wider MDT.
 To undertake and facilitate relevant research in the clinical area, in line with hospital policies and to present and publish research outcomes.
Infomal inquiries can be made to Dervilla Danaher, ddanaher@mater.ie or Jennifer Stafford, jstafford@mater.ie
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