Frailty Occupational Therapist

Job overview

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Occupational Therapist wanting to specialise in Frailty to join our frailty team as a static member. The team covers the Emergency Department, Rapid Assess Clinic, Frailty Assessment Unit, Rockwood Short stay Unit and Frailty outliers. It’s an exciting time to be part of frailty services with local and national developments recognising the importance of preventing hospital admission, hospital optimisation and discharging this cohort of patients back home in a timely manner.

Job Summary

• To be a positive and proactive member of the frailty team.
• To assess patients holistically in a timely manner using a frailty assessment based on the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.
• To provide effective and efficient therapy input meet patients’ needs.
• To refer patients to the community to facilitate safe discharges, ensuring the correct community support to meet their needs.
• To work effectively in the multidisciplinary team for positive patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Main tasks and responsibilities

Clinical

• For physio applicants, to be part of the on call respiratory rota and weekends.
• For all applicants to be part of the 7-day service once established at the Trust.
• To provide skilled therapy interventions across the frailty service ED / FAU, RACE, Short Stay Unit and cover frailty outliers as required.
• To be part of the wider Older Adults Therapy Team, providing cover across older adults when required and engaged in the Inpatient Therapy Department service.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work/caseload.
• Use resources effectively to manage competing priorities and demands.
• To work in a blended capacity to complete holistic frailty assessments
• To plan and implement interventions, in collaboration with patients, setting joint goals with the multidisciplinary teams and patients underpinned by clinically effective treatment/management programmes.
• To provide accurate and effective handover of patients to partner agencies and community services to achieve a seamless transition of care for patients.
• To seek advice from colleagues if patient presentation is outside of clinical competence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.