Central Norfolk Home First Hub Therapist

Job overview

The Central Norfolk Home First Hub is recruiting

Do you have excellent interpersonal and clinical skills? Are you flexible, approachable and a team player?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Norwich Place Therapy Teams. We are looking for experienced and reliable Occupational Therapists/Physiotherapists to join us in providing high quality therapy services. The role is to provide support to the Central Norfolk Home First Hub which covers the Norwich, South and North places and will involve working across a 7 day week.  The role will also include supporting with clinical visits and work in both the Procured Beds and the Urgent Community Response Therapy Team.

The service is operational during the following hours Monday to Friday 08.00 – 18.00, Saturday 09.00 – 17.00, Sunday 10.00 – 16.00

If you thrive on variety in the working day, enjoy multi–tasking and also being part of a supportive team then this role is for you.

Main duties of the job

You will use your clinical skills and knowledge to complete the triage of referrals for patients on discharge to assess pathways from acute and community hospitals.  This will involve assessing the patient’s needs, determining priority of care, and processing and allocating referrals accordingly.  Effective communication skills are required to liaise with the multidisciplinary team to ensure timely responses to referrals are achieved. Telephone assessments and reviews of individuals in their own homes or care homes following discharge will be undertaken and appropriate therapy intervention required planned to meet patients needs.

For clinical visits, you will lead in the delivery of high standards of therapy interventions to patients within their own place of residence to prevent avoidable admissions to acute care. You will provide short term reablement/ rehabilitation programmes with effective short term goal setting for vulnerable adults with acute health needs.

Ideally you will be familiar with these clinical databases; Systmone, IRIS, Liquid Logic though training will be provided.

As a therapist it is essential that you can prioritise your own workload, possess effective communication skills, work as part of a team, and use own initiative.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Triage and allocation of referrals for patients on Discharge to Assess pathway, assessing the patient’s needs, determining the priority of care, processing and allocating referrals accordingly, liaising with multidisciplinary team to ensure timely responses to referrals on an individual patient needs-based basis utilising the knowledge, skills and expertise of others in the Integrated team.
• To assess and prescribe care packages for patients with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• To work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
• To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• To work, liaise and communicate with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users on the Discharge to Assess pathway and in community teams.
• To lead in the delivery of high standards of therapy interventions to patients within their own place of residence to prevent avoidable admissions to acute care.
• To provide short term reablement/ rehabilitation programmes with effective short term goal setting for vulnerable adults with acute health needs in their own homes/care homes.
• Formulate and execute individualised physiotherapy management and treatment plans of patients including those with complex presentation, in collaboration with the Urgent Community Response Team, other agencies and the patient, utilising a range of treatment skills.