Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team Lead | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 January 2026 |
| Location: | King's Lynn, PE30 4ET |
| Company: | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7674865/839-7674865-RB |
Summary
An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team based in the emergency access areas of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, providing Clinical expertise, specialising in Admission Avoidance Services for the Frail elderly population.
The post holder is required to provide the Clinical Lead role in an integrated multi-professional admission avoidance team located within the Emergency Care & Assessment Areas based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The post holder will be required to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skill in the communication, negotiation and delivery of a multi-stakeholder service.
Within the job role, there will be a need to undertake practice clinically at a high level dealing with highly complex patients and also operationally in ensuring the delivery of the service is well led, efficiently delivered and continually monitored.
There will be a need to balance competing priorities of stakeholders, patients, relatives and others, whilst supporting the staff within the service and maintaining close networks of support services.
To take the role of Clinical Lead for RAFT, working with the Team Lead in the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the physiotherapy nursing and occupational therapy specialities within the emergency access setting. Providing a Specialist Clinical Lead role for service delivery & development.
Provide specialist clinical knowledge & experience in assessing elderly, frail patients who often present with multi-pathological problems, including delerium, medical/respiratory/neurological or musculo-skeletal conditions.
To respond to a bleep or mobile phone and provide a prompt and effective assessment within agreed standards to ensure the most appropriate and safe discharge to home or other suitable environment.
To ensure the team provide advanced combined physiotherapy, nursing & occupational therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients within the speciality with an emphasis on those with highly complex and/or chronic presentation.
To train, educate and support Band 5, Band 6 physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, assistant practitioners, therapy assistants, students and other healthcare professionals.
To share the leadership role with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital employed counterpart to plan, develop, co-ordinate and evaluate the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.
To organise, implement and actively support and take part in the seven day working rota for the integrated Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.
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For full description of the role & duties involved, please see the job description and job specification.
This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026
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