IDS Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist - Home First Team
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Location: | Burnley, BB10 2PQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9435-25-0193 |
Summary
Maintain cooperative professional working relationships. Liaise with Multi-disciplinary Team members to facilitate decision making regarding discharge planning. Promote and facilitate robust communication channels between all agencies and professionals in Health and Social Care settings. Maintain effective paper and electronic communication systems within Complex Case Management, work in partnership with other teams within ELHT Transfer of Care Service, managed by Head of Clinical Flow. To maintain and improve quality in all areas of work and practices in accordance with the organisational systems, standards, and guidelines. Ensure that all actions promote equality and diversity in accordance East Lancashire Hospitals Trust policies, ensuring all patients/clients and staff are treated as individuals, and with dignity and respect. Support and educate ward staff to make appropriate referrals into discharge services, monitoring the progress of patients along the discharge planning pathway. Give both verbal and written feedback about the progress of a patients assessment and treatment, this will include the typing of comprehensive documentation from visits and clinical input. Taking the patient home upon discharge to settle (e.g. in situations described above) or visiting post discharge to check the patient is able to manage and to prevent re-admissions. Utilise mental health knowledge able to carry out in depth cognitive assessments. To be able to carry out second opinion assessments when there is a dispute between a health professions opinion and the patient or their family. For example a decision around home rather than bed base. To use social services IT systems in conjunction with the trusted assessment document and set up new packages of care for patients.