Job summary
Come and work in our growing EKHUFT Therapy team and lead the therapy service in our new Frailty unit at The William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. If you are dynamic, love the pace of same day emergency care and have a passion for Multi-disciplinary team working, then this is the job for you. You will need to provide high quality therapy assessment and care within a same day emergency care culture, ensuring a comprehensive geriatric assessment and holistic approach to our patients.
Main duties of the job
The post focuses on meeting the needs of the Frail population, requiring complex assessment and decision making to provide the right care in the right place with a focused patient centred approach to admission avoidance or short stay (maximum 48hrs). The FAU will operate a direct access principle, enabling frail patients to bypass A&E wherever possible and have immediate access to a dedicated multi-disciplinary frailty team.
About us
Our therapy team at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust strives to achieve excellence daily. We are passionate about the services we provide, comprising of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics and Podiatry. We are committed to your professional development and are keen to provide high quality, evidence based services keeping the patient at the heart of our delivery. We offer regular teaching, training and one-to-ones with targeted appraisals to ensure you are developing within your professional role. Within the Therapy team we pride ourselves on our inclusive and professional workplace culture. Teamwork, trust and respect are held at the centre of everything we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Accountable for the delivery of the therapy service into the Frailty Units at William Harvey Hospital (Ashford)
- Provides visible proactive clinical leadership, acting as the key senior lead for issues, challenges, and escalation in relation to multi-disciplinary care planning, transfer of care and the discharge process
- Accountable for the clinical and operational therapy leadership into the Frailty Unit
- To support the provision of same day emergency care for frailty &/or short stay inpatient care.
- Assess, investigate and provide a comprehensive management plan - utilising the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment tool and advanced care planning skills
- Be an active member of the specialist frailty outreach service, supporting frail patients within surgical and medical wards.
- To provide timely assessment and discharge to community pathways as appropriate.
- To promote effective communication with patients, carers and other professionals
- To maintain precise and accurate records with audit and research data collection.
- To provide education and advice for staff and develop links with community colleagues
- The post holder will embed the CQC domains into the service and evidence how these are met.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Accountable for the delivery of the therapy service into the Frailty Units at William Harvey Hospital (Ashford)
- Provides visible proactive clinical leadership, acting as the key senior lead for issues, challenges, and escalation in relation to multi-disciplinary care planning, transfer of care and the discharge process
- Accountable for the clinical and operational therapy leadership into the Frailty Unit
- To support the provision of same day emergency care for frailty &/or short stay inpatient care.
- Assess, investigate and provide a comprehensive management plan - utilising the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment tool and advanced care planning skills
- Be an active member of the specialist frailty outreach service, supporting frail patients within surgical and medical wards.
- To provide timely assessment and discharge to community pathways as appropriate.
- To promote effective communication with patients, carers and other professionals
- To maintain precise and accurate records with audit and research data collection.
- To provide education and advice for staff and develop links with community colleagues
- The post holder will embed the CQC domains into the service and evidence how these are met.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates substantial specialist experience in Frailty at a senior level
- Experience and evidence of working in collaboration with partner organisations to support the discharge pathway
- Experience of working to improve and support patient flow in an NHS environment
- MDT Leadership
- Project management experience
- Experience of managing change in an acute hospital setting.
- Proven experience of successfully managing resources including people and materials.
- Acute clinical experience to a specialist level.
Desirable
- Working in the community
- Experience in managing and delivering projects across a wide economy of partners.
- Extensive experience of using service improvement tools to deliver better pathways for patients
Skills
Essential
- Teaching / mentoring
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- IT literate and able to use a range of software
- Strong team player demonstrated
- Demonstrates political, strategic and operational awareness
- Influence and negotiates
- Able to work under pressure and under own initiative in a fast pace clinical setting
- Ability to think and act quickly and under pressure in order to make patient safety decisions.
- Excellent planning skills and an ability to work to deadlines
Desirable
- Ability to influence at the highest level
- Ability to translate thinking into operational practice
- Detailed in depth knowledge in health improvement methodology and techniques, including change management
Knowledge
Essential
- In depth understanding of a broad range of non - elective admissions, admission avoidance and work with frail, elderly patients
- Advanced knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of frail, elderly patients and falls prevention, including advanced clinical reasoning, CGA and treatment skills
- Significant knowledge and experience in the discharge planning process, including care planning and transfer of care
- Successfully delivered quality improvement objectives and finds innovative solutions to problems
- Understanding and application of current NHS strategy and policy in relation to frailty
Desirable
- Member of Relevant Special interest group
Qualifications
Essential
- Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
- HCPC registration
- MSc or evidence of CPD at this level
Desirable
- Post graduate management qualification;
- Leadership Qualification
- Recognised project management qualification
other
Essential
- Recognised project management qualification
- Ability to travel independently between sites
- Ability and willingness to work over 7 days
- Works at all times in line with the Trust Values
- Ability to develop good working relationships across networks
- Confident
- Credible
- Proactive 'Can Do' style
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates substantial specialist experience in Frailty at a senior level
- Experience and evidence of working in collaboration with partner organisations to support the discharge pathway
- Experience of working to improve and support patient flow in an NHS environment
- MDT Leadership
- Project management experience
- Experience of managing change in an acute hospital setting.
- Proven experience of successfully managing resources including people and materials.
- Acute clinical experience to a specialist level.
Desirable
- Working in the community
- Experience in managing and delivering projects across a wide economy of partners.
- Extensive experience of using service improvement tools to deliver better pathways for patients
Skills
Essential
- Teaching / mentoring
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- IT literate and able to use a range of software
- Strong team player demonstrated
- Demonstrates political, strategic and operational awareness
- Influence and negotiates
- Able to work under pressure and under own initiative in a fast pace clinical setting
- Ability to think and act quickly and under pressure in order to make patient safety decisions.
- Excellent planning skills and an ability to work to deadlines
Desirable
- Ability to influence at the highest level
- Ability to translate thinking into operational practice
- Detailed in depth knowledge in health improvement methodology and techniques, including change management
Knowledge
Essential
- In depth understanding of a broad range of non - elective admissions, admission avoidance and work with frail, elderly patients
- Advanced knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of frail, elderly patients and falls prevention, including advanced clinical reasoning, CGA and treatment skills
- Significant knowledge and experience in the discharge planning process, including care planning and transfer of care
- Successfully delivered quality improvement objectives and finds innovative solutions to problems
- Understanding and application of current NHS strategy and policy in relation to frailty
Desirable
- Member of Relevant Special interest group
Qualifications
Essential
- Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
- HCPC registration
- MSc or evidence of CPD at this level
Desirable
- Post graduate management qualification;
- Leadership Qualification
- Recognised project management qualification
other
Essential
- Recognised project management qualification
- Ability to travel independently between sites
- Ability and willingness to work over 7 days
- Works at all times in line with the Trust Values
- Ability to develop good working relationships across networks
- Confident
- Credible
- Proactive 'Can Do' style
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
