Job summary
Senior Frailty Occupational Therapist Band 7 depending on experience and qualifications
Do you have a passion for working with older people living with frailty?
This is a 12 month fixed term post
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Integrated Frailty Team at Wexham NHS Foundation Trust. The Frailty team consists of Geriatricians, Advanced Clinical practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Therapy Assistants. The team provides specialist assessment and treatment to patients with Frailty within the emergency department, acute assessment unit, and the Frailty SDEC
The Frailty team remains at the forefront of aligning with the national strategy for improving upon the existing processes involved in the identification of frailty and in the coordination of care between different Community and hospital teams to deliver better experiences and outcomes for our patients.
The successful candidates will be joining a friendly and supportive team. They will be encouraged to contribute to developing and improving the service. The role will provide opportunities for learning and development, including supervision from experienced advanced practitioners.
This is a 12 month fixed term post
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of work experience in an acute hospital with older adults. Applicants with the right skill set are welcome.
You will provide high-quality person-centred care which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.
To undertake Comprehensive specialist holistic assessments for individuals presenting with frailty within the acute care setting, with the purpose of creating an individualised agreed management plan, incorporating pharmacological considerations, long-term conditions management, frailty syndrome prevention and management, diagnostic reasoning and initiating onward referral to specialist teams as appropriate.
To provide advanced clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgment, critical analysis, and decision-making skills.
The successful candidates will be joining a friendly and supportive team. They will be encouraged to contribute to developing and improving the service. The role will provide opportunities for learning and development, including supervision from experienced advanced practitioners.
This is a 12 month fixed term
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
- HCPC Registration
Desirable
- Masters level or equivalent training in a specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in a specialist area
Experience Essential
- Clinical experience in acute setting or community services commensurate to the responsibilities of the role at an advanced level.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and post-registration education and training.
- Experience in audit.
- Proven leadership skills in managing and developing teams
- Advanced performance in a range of clinical skills in working in elderly medicine, acute care, frailty
- Specialist experience in A & E, Acute medicine, frailty, and or admission avoidance
Skills & Abilities Essential
- Advanced specialist knowledge, understanding, and application of the Therapy process within Emergency and Acute Medical care relating to client-centred practice.
- Demonstrate evidence of a high standard of understanding and performance in managing the complications of frailty.
- Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge, application, and analysis of standardised and non-standardized tests
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure especially in relation to those with a limited prognosis or complex care
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary diagnostic and intervention services
- Demonstrate excellent leadership, organisational, managerial and team performance skills
Desirable
- Experience with Excel spreadsheets, data analysis and reporting
Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Maximum score 2
- Registered Occupational Therapist HCPC
Desirable criteria Maximum score 2
- Masters level or working towards an equivalent training
Job description
Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
- HCPC Registration
Desirable
- Masters level or equivalent training in a specialist area or evidence of significant practical experience, research or publication in a specialist area
Experience Essential
- Clinical experience in acute setting or community services commensurate to the responsibilities of the role at an advanced level.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and post-registration education and training.
- Experience in audit.
- Proven leadership skills in managing and developing teams
- Advanced performance in a range of clinical skills in working in elderly medicine, acute care, frailty
- Specialist experience in A & E, Acute medicine, frailty, and or admission avoidance
Skills & Abilities Essential
- Advanced specialist knowledge, understanding, and application of the Therapy process within Emergency and Acute Medical care relating to client-centred practice.
- Demonstrate evidence of a high standard of understanding and performance in managing the complications of frailty.
- Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge, application, and analysis of standardised and non-standardized tests
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure especially in relation to those with a limited prognosis or complex care
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary diagnostic and intervention services
- Demonstrate excellent leadership, organisational, managerial and team performance skills
Desirable
- Experience with Excel spreadsheets, data analysis and reporting
Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Maximum score 2
- Registered Occupational Therapist HCPC
Desirable criteria Maximum score 2
- Masters level or working towards an equivalent training
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Essential
- HCPC registered
- Degree in Occupational therapy
Desirable
- Experience in A & E assessment
- Experience working with older people
- Experience working in community
Person Specification
Essential criteria
Essential
- HCPC registered
- Degree in Occupational therapy
Desirable
- Experience in A & E assessment
- Experience working with older people
- Experience working in community
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
