Specialist Frailty Therapist

Job overview

This is a full time Band 7 Specialist Therapist post working in Frailty Same Day Emergency Care at the Oldham Royal Hospital.

This role is part of a key development in delivering specialised frailty input to frail, older patients presenting to ED, over a 7-day working pattern.

The Band 7 therapist will be included in the 7-day working roster, which involves working up to 1 weekend every 4 weeks. They will work across Urgent and Emergency Care within a team that consists of a Geriatrician, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Nurse, Therapist, Pharmacist and Therapy Assistant/Coordinator as well as with Oldham community and social services in delivering timely same day discharges, specialist input to frail patients; effecting appropriate admission avoidance and early, pro-active CGA for patients who may need admission to appropriate wards.

Main duties of the job

Post holder will be the Senior Frailty Clinician within an Acute Frailty Service, facilitating efficient, effective and coordinated assessment and treatment of frail older adults in the Frailty SDEC.

The role demands the commitment to:

• Provide clinical support to patients, their families/carers and health professionals involved across the Frailty Pathway.
• Require highly skilled time management and priority skills due to frequent interruptions of job tasks during the working day and balancing of clinical and operational duties, including service development.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team to provide early and pro-active Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) to patients Providing a holistic assessment will include clinical, social, functional, emotion and cognitive elements as documented within the CGA.
• Utilise the CGA knowledge gained to initiate and facilitate early discharge plans in collaboration with community services, ensuring that patients’ needs are met and likelihood of unnecessary readmission is reduced.
• Ensure all patients receive timely assessments and screening, supporting and providing training information in Frailty.
• Provide advanced assessment and discharge planning of patients who may have complex and or chronic conditions.
• Support the delivery of frailty service audit, service improvement initiatives and provide Frailty education, training and staff development

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.