Team Lead - Discharge to Assess Therapy Team
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Southport, PR8 6PN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9409-24-0526 |
Summary
1. To provide a broad range of expert, complex therapeutic advice to patients and carers for a wide range of medical conditions to meet varying complex needs. 2. To support the Discharge to Assess Therapy Team in making recommendations to other Health Professionals regarding therapy needs of patients. 3. To ensure effective internal and external 2-way communication with patients, carers and all other Health and Social Care Professionals to negotiate, review and adapt care plans and in all aspects of patient care ensuring the holistic care of patients. 4. To demonstrate skills of active listening and respond to verbal and non-verbal cues of your patients or their carers, recognising and dealing with their concerns. 5. To provide and receive complex information which requires empathy and reassurance. Communicating where there may be barriers to understanding, or when patients/their carers may be finding difficulty dealing with their diagnosis and where skills such as motivationalinterviewing and counselling are required. 6. To accurately record all assessments and interventions on Therapy records, and in relevant nursing and medical records in line with Trust Policy, ensuring that the data is inputted onto the Trusts data collection/Information systems. 7. To lead and contribute to the production and evaluation of resources produced by the department e.g. information and training packs, advice leaflets etc. 8. Liaise with Therapists across the region and refer to other health professionals to ensure appropriate care pathways for those patients seeking information outside your area of skills and knowledge. 9. Liaise with colleagues at other Hospitals to ensure a seamless transfer of care between hospitals. 10. To be a member of the multi-disciplinary team and actively participate in M.D.T. meetings and case conferences. Please be aware the vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached.