Bank ITOC Physiotherapist

Job summary

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and strives to become an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleague's lived experiences.

Locala recognises the value that inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities.

If you are CARING and AMBITIOUS - then join Locala and BE PART OF IT.

The Integrated Transfer of Care (ITOC) Team is a dynamic and multi-skilled team consisting of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Assistant Practitioners. We also work in alignment with social services and private sector nursing and residential homes.

Our purpose is to support a safe and timely hospital discharge of people who are medically fit, and no longer need hospital care, to a place more suitable to the persons needs. Assessments and care provision can then be tailored to support people to regain strengths and skills so that they can live as independently as possible. We also aim to avoid admission for patients in A&E and Frailty departments who require intervention to allow them to be discharged home.

Main duties of the job

The main priority of the team is to consider home first with ongoing community interventions, if required. The ITOC model aims to support better outcomes for people leaving hospital by:

• Reducing the time people spend in hospital when they no longer need acute care preventing hospital acquired infections and deconditioning (the loss of strength and independence)
• Assessing people in a more appropriate environment than the hospital giving a more accurate indication of their strengths and need
• Providing multidisciplinary reablement and rehabilitation plans, and if necessary short-term care and support, to help people gain and re-gain independence, preventing or reducing need for longer term care.

The model also enables the urgent care system to prioritise acute hospital care for those people who need it.

The ITOC team work in partnership with individuals & families to identify their own needs and short term goals, recognising that person-centred care planning and intervention is key to the person accomplishing the outcomes they want to achieve.

They also closely work with other services as part of the Urgent Care System. Key Stakeholders, Urgent Care Response, HATs, and Social Services. There are two teams within the service: The Hospital Discharge Team identify people who have onward care needs and then make necessary arrangements for discharge to one of the two pathways within the D2A service; Home First and Bedded Pathway.

About us

For more information, please contact Elkie Moffatt (Team Leader for Unplanned Care)elkie.moffatt@locala.org.uk 044 330 165 9839or Deon Bryan (Complex Discharge Co-Ordinator) deon.bryan@locala.org.uk 07946609074

Welcome to Locala Health and Wellbeing - proud to provide NHS community healthcare services. We help people have better lives - and you can too. Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated "Good" NHS healthcare services, as well as having a "positive social impact in local communities.