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Highly Specialist Physio/Occupational Therapist (Frailty SDEC/CAU), Wigan
Client:
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Wigan, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
28
Posted:
21.03.2025
Expiry Date:
05.05.2025
Job Description:
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
The aim of our Frailty SDEC is to reduce the number of acute presentations and enhance the provision of health and social care to the frail elderly, providing care closer to home in the community between the tier of Emergency Department (ED) and Primary Care.
We are looking for a Highly Specialist OT/Physio to lead therapy within the unit and the care delivery in keeping with the Frailty model, including but not limited to: complete Functional, Social and Environmental Aspects of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and link in with Community Services as appropriate.
This role supports individuals to achieve specific goals which enable safe discharge back into the community or their own home.
The post offers exciting opportunities to focus on the care of our frail population of adults, provide hands-on care, lead on the development of the unit, and provide professional clinical leadership to the unit.
You must be able to travel independently across the Trust.
This is a permanent full-time (37.5 hours) post working across Monday to Sunday (including bank holidays). Part-time may be considered.
An Enhanced DBS with Adults' Barred List checks will be obtained during pre-employment checks.
Main duties of the job
* Act as a highly specialist therapist to support individuals who are medically well enough to be discharged from hospital but need a holistic approach for a safe MDT led discharge.
* Provide expertise and undertake a significant clinical caseload to a high professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.
* Monitor and improve standards of care and practice by efficient use of resources and utilising clinical audit within intermediate care.
* Proactively contribute to the achievement of patient care through individual and interdisciplinary team effort, monitoring and improving standards in the delivery of evidence based and client centred care within the Unit.
* Provide leadership as a senior therapist, assessing and treating a caseload of complex patients in various settings including patients' own homes and a wide variety of community settings including residential and nursing homes.
* Lead in teaching, training, and supervision of clinicians within their IDT working.
* Co-ordinate the unit as a shift lead of all staff members.
* Lead an MDT team.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL is committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, ensuring safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
* Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work including the management of patients in your care, working to agreed national and professional standards.
* Recognised as a highly specialised practitioner, undertaking comprehensive specialist assessments of patients, including those with complex presentations, chronic long-term conditions, and rehabilitation needs.
* Maintain own clinical caseload to ensure continuing professional registration at a specialist level and support the interdisciplinary team working across the service.
* Ensure all referrals to the service are aware of eligibility criteria and maintain the profile of the unit in various forums.
* Effectively undertake assessments of complex patients, identifying their problems and needs, ensuring all relevant factors are taken into account.
* Ensure smooth patient transfer into and out of the service, with full communication of all related information.
* Utilise examination and assessment findings to develop and implement treatment programs from a wide range of therapeutic options.
* Set joint interdisciplinary treatment goals in negotiation with the patient and/or carer.
Planning and Organisational Duties
* Ensure regular review of the caseload within a patient-centred interdisciplinary goal setting model.
* Take responsibility for devising highly specialised treatment programs for other interdisciplinary team members.
* Act as a role model in promoting interdisciplinary team working.
* Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and best practice.
* Ensure the team works closely to all local and national guidelines.
* Provide highly specialised advice to others regarding patient management and care.
* Practice, role model, and promote safe and effective moving, handling, and positioning skills.
* Provide clinical support for peers and junior staff.
Communications and Key Working Relationships
* Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, taking an active role in meetings and developments.
* Employ excellent communication skills to enable patients to engage in the therapeutic process.
* Work autonomously as part of the interdisciplinary team to organise and attend patient-related meetings.
* Establish productive therapeutic relationships with patients, carers, and families.
* Demonstrate empathy with patients, carers, families, and colleagues.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Therapist with an active HCPC registration.
* Evidence of CPD in the form of a detailed portfolio.
* Leadership training.
* Relevant post-registration training/qualification in intermediate care.
Experience
* Evidence of wide clinical knowledge base and specialist knowledge in assessment and management of patients.
* Participation in departmental activities such as data recording, analysis, and associated service planning.
* Ability to work autonomously within a specialist clinical area.
* Experience of working in a team and independently.
* Experience of service development, leadership, and supervision skills.
Skills
* Ability to manage highly complex caseload.
* Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
* Ability to communicate effectively with people of all ages and abilities.
Knowledge
* Specialist knowledge in relevant clinical skills and approaches to patient management.
* Knowledge of other chronic diseases and their management.
Additional
* Ability to handle difficult situations and manage caseloads including clients with complex needs.
* Ability to work flexibly in line with service demand.
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