Frailty Occupational Therapist

Job summary

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.

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitalsprovide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.