Therapy Advanced Practitioner – Front Door and Frailty (NHS AfC: Band 8a) - Therapy - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust – Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Therapy Advanced Practitioner – Front Door and Frailty
Band 8a (option for a Trainee Band 7 Advanced Practitioner)
Full time 37.5 hpw
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Therapist to be based at either Lincoln County Hospital or Pilgrim Hospital. The role will have a Trust wide contract to Lead and work as an Advanced Practitioner at the front door.
The post holder will have experience of successfully leading others. We are looking for someone who enjoys the pace of life in a busy acute hospital and has the energy to drive change and service improvements and who will be prepared to invest their energy into supporting the leadership team in the development of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation services.
The Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinical Business Unit is made up of a fantastic team who work on the wards, in out-patients and in the community settings across Lincolnshire. Our aim being to provide high quality and efficient care for the Lincolnshire population who require support from acute therapy and rehabilitation services.
You will be fully supported in this role by the Professional Lead Occupational and Physio Therapists. You will integrate with a well-respected Therapy leadership group.
The post-holder will be responsible for service delivery as an Advanced Practitioner.
The post holder will at all times, demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making in the speciality of emergency care and frailty, in the emergency departments.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership for the therapy team and frailty team working at the front door.
The post holder will be an expert therapy practitioner and leader in the field of frailty and front door therapy services.
The Advanced Practitioner (AP) will use specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare autonomously to patients in their specialty area.
The post holder will be a registered therapy professional and hold an MSc appropriate to their Clinical Practice, or equivalent at MSc level (as confirmed by HEI) to be agreed as part of the application process or already be on an AP MSc pathway e.g. trainee AP.
The post holder will have a Trust-wide responsibility to promote clinical excellence.
The post holder will lead on service transformation with the emphasis on delivering services fit for the future in frailty and front door therapy and in the reduction in hospital admission.
To act as the lead clinical representative on agreed clinical and service development groups and boards
To work collaboratively with (all stakeholders) across the hospital and community, ensuring the delivery of the clinical KPI’s.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated
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