CAT Clinical Practitioner (Therapist)

Job overview

This is a great time to join the Community Assessment Team and there are various roles available to suit a range of professionals.

Our mission statement; ‘We are working collaboratively to help get you home or identify alternatives to an acute admission for the best possible outcome’.

The Community Assessment Team (CAT) is based at the Emergency Departments across Gloucester Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital.  The teams purpose is to provide a rapid assessment of patients to prevent admission to the acute trust. We work between the hours of 8am-8pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am-6pm weekends and bank holidays.

The post holder will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating high-quality, holistic patient care, within the Emergency Department.

For new starters, there will be a 6-8 week supernumerary induction period and you will be allocated a mentor to support.

Main duties of the job

• To assess a cohort of patients within the Emergency Department (ED) from presentation through to discharge.
• Through training and development educate GHNHSFT and colleagues about available discharge pathways and community services.
• Working with colleagues, to risk assesses suitability for discharge and ensure that arrangements are appropriate and timely.
• To communicate information upon discharge to multidisciplinary teams, external agencies, patients and carers.
• To work with community services, ie CATU, SPCA, GHC Rapid Response Team (RR).
• Lead and support the wider team on those patients who require a more in depth Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy assessment.
• Line management responsibility as required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

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