Job summary
Do you have a passion for ensuring effective, quality care and support for adults in care homes, ensuring they avoid unnecessary admissions to hospital and receive the right care in the right place? Do you have experience of working in either a health or social care setting? Do you have tenacity, drive, great communication skills and desire to influence change? Can you engage people at all levels and look to create win-win outcomes that create positive results?
This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to make your mark shaping a new role to meet the needs of the Care Home residents, Care Homes and commissioners and deliver positive change.
This role will facilitate effective, appropriate and timely therapy support to care homes and their residents providing education and clinical support in the community, avoiding attendance to the acute trust where possible. You will work as part of a care home project team including nurses and therapy to collectively support groups of care homes while also working with the local Integrated Neighbourhood Team to ensure joined up seamless care .
Main duties of the job
The post holder must be able to:
1. Demonstrate experience of working within a multi-disciplinary settings
2. You will have excellent clinical skills, providing holistic patient assessments to a range of patients
3. You will have excellent communication skills and will be required to get out and meet with Care Homes, building ongoing relationships with the managers and owners to promote the role
4. Maintain open communication with social care providers, primary care and commissioning to make recommendations for improvements to support effective outcomes for adults
5. Develop and gather information to demonstrate effectiveness of the Care Home project. This will include the production of regular monitoring reports.
This is a unique opportunity and anyone who has worked in the Care Home sector will immediately recognise the benefits of introducing this new role. You need to be credible and your ability to work with Care Homes to ensure effective and quality outcomes for residents is critical.
There will be challenging situations at times, so your ability to positively influence and create win-win outcomes for patients, relatives, carers, and staff is really important, but for the right individual, this is a great opportunity to make a difference.
Please note a driving licence and access of a vehicle is an essential requirement of this role
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
6. Proven post registration experience
7. Range of rotational acute/community care experiences - and acute discharge planning
8. Demonstrable In-service training and reflective learning in these specialities
9. Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
10. Experience of working with assistants / technicians
11. Ability to build effective working relationships with patients/carers/colleagues
12. Directing patient care
Desirable
13. Experience of evidencing and auditing practice
14. Supervision of students in any environment
15. Membership of SIG
16. Completed rotation in Emergency Care (A&E, EAU, FAB) and/or
17. Completed rotation in Complex and/or Completed rotation in Community care
Qualifications
Essential
18. BSc/MSc Occupational Therapy
19. Registration with HCPC
Desirable
20. Information Technology
21. Audit
22. Validated post registration courses
23. Non-clinical courses
24. LEO/Leadership
25. Accredited wheelchair assessor
26. MCSP
27. Clinical Educators Course
Knowledge
Essential
28. In-depth Knowledge of all relevant diagnoses and their management
29. Principles and practices of rehabilitation
30. Clinical reasoning
31. Literature search/review
32. Current evidence based practice
33. Detailed anatomy and physiology relevant to the speciality
34. Clinical Governance
35. Management/prevention of HAI
36. Health and Safety and Risk awareness
Desirable
37. Falls re-education
38. Benefits of exercise and education
39. Knowledge of local community services and value of inter-agency working
40. Role of CSP