Advanced Occupational Therapist - Acute Frailty
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Tachwedd 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £47,810.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Durham, DH1 5TW |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9439-2526-1151 |
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Be responsible for the efficient, effective and safe management of patients referred or identified to the Frailty Team. Be able to manage your own caseload in response to unpredictable patterns of work. Accept referrals from other health care professionals and work unsupervised. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical practice for patients under your management. To work with medical, nursing, allied health professionals and the wider MDT to provide the highest possible standards care for all patients you come into contact with. Use expert knowledge of frail patients with complex frailty syndromes to provide a highly specialist assessment to acutely unwell patients in acute medicine. To ensure assessment is evidence based, detailed and holistic. Ensuring patient preferences are incorporated and that physical, psychological and social factors are considered. To make professionally autonomous decisions and be accountable for the direct delivery of care, exercising judgement on the parameters of safe practice and guided by broad policies and guidelines e.g. NICE guidelines. They are accountable for his/her actions or omissions. They can discuss / refer to other members of the multidisciplinary team in circumstances where this is necessary and appropriate. To develop and deliver personalised, effective programs of care, recording, documenting and maintaining these within trust policy. Responsible for solving wide ranging routine and complex problems and issues exercising highly developed specialist knowledge for advanced judgments/decision making, demonstrating expanded and autonomous knowledge and advanced skills within clinical practice. To routinely carry out the extended role of an Advanced Therapy Practitioner working outside of traditional role but within the agreed competence-based framework once competencies have been achieved. To contribute to the development and implementation of the competence-based framework including training modules to ensure that competencies are met. To recognise and advocate the different strengths of team members, to carry out agreed generic tasks identifying where tasks are profession specific. Provide highly specialised advice to patients, carers and relatives to ensure compliance with the diagnosed condition, treatment and interventions. Advise on health promotion and prevention of disease in accordance with NHS policy and agendas in order to achieve optimum health and independence. To exercise highly developed skills to identify patients who may be at potential risk e.g. vulnerable adults, self-neglect, patients at risk of abuse or where abuse is suspected. To act accordingly within guidelines to safeguard these patients. Actively participate in ward huddles, communicating planed patient care from Acute Frailty Team. To formulate and deliver an individual discharge plan based on advanced clinical knowledge of current practice, evidence based practice and community support options. To identify and coordinate appropriate transfers to community hospital sites, rehabilitation and step down beds, and complete trusted assessor pathway where local agreements are in place. Liaise with colleagues in other areas of the hospital and in other hospitals and Trusts to ensure the safe, smooth transfer of patients to and from the department. Assist the department team to develop innovative and flexible approaches to care. Ensure that personal performance meets the job requirements, professional codes and standards, trust and post competency standards at all times. To be aware of and respond to operational pressures, supporting operational management across the acute site as appropriate. Responsibility for recording and evaluating patient outcomes and agreeing on and recording quality metrics for the evaluation of service provision.