Clinical Lead, Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team

Job overview

Are you a tenacious, confident, and flexible health professional with excellent clinical assessment skills, who can lead by example as well as encourage leadership roles within your team. Can you work autonomously and as part of an integrated, creative and motivated team? Do you like variety and relish the challenge of a fast paced working environment? If you do and are, we would really like to hear from you! You will take the role of Clinical Lead within this dynamic, dual funded integrated hybrid team, providing comprehensive geriatric assessments of our elderly & frail population, specialising in admission avoidance services and complex discharge planning covering all Emergency Access Areas of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital including the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care unit.

This is an exciting opportunity to remain clinically active whilst also working with the team lead, to develop future opportunities for and within the team

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job To take the role of Clinical Lead for the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team, working with the Team Lead in the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the physiotherapy, nursing and occupational therapy specialities within the emergency access setting. Providing a Specialist Clinical Lead role for service delivery & development. Provide specialist clinical knowledge & experience in assessing elderly, frail patients who often present with complex multi-pathological conditions & problems, To respond to a bleep/mobile phone, provide prompt and effective assessment within agreed standards to ensure the most appropriate and safe discharge to home or other suitable environment. To ensure the team provide advanced combined physiotherapy, nursing & occupational therapy assessment & diagnosis of patients within the speciality, with an emphasis on those with highly complex and/or chronic presentation. To carry out home visits and assess & provide specific equipment as required. To train, educate and support Band 5, Band 6 physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, assistant practitioners, therapy assistants, students and other healthcare professionals. To share the leadership role with the QEH employed counterpart to plan, develop, actively support & evaluate  the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team. To take part in the seven day working rota for the integrated Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description attached for full details of main roles and  responsibilities for this post.