A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Frailty Therapy Intervention Team.
It’s an exciting time to be part of the Frailty Therapy Intervention Team with local and national developments recognising the importance of preventing hospital admission, early therapy intervention and discharge planning for frail patients.
You will work as part of a larger teamin several Frailty and acute bedded areas. Working in a diverse environment offers scope to build on skills across all our pathways including, a high paced GP Assessment Unit, Medical Assessment Unit, a specialist frailty service within Bevan Court including an acute bedded area and Frailty Reablement Unit. You will also work closely with our sister team - Admission Avoidance - who covers the Accident and Emergency department, Frailty Ambulatory clinic, Urgent Crisis Response, Community Frailty and Virtual Ward.
Working in Frailty, you will be part of a team that aims to comprehensively and holistically assess and treat our patients incorporating home assessments and thorough follow up. Our aims are toprovide a reactive and proactive service to care for the frail older adult, preventing crisis, avoiding hospital attendance, and maximising independence in a patient’s own home where possible.
This is an opportunity to work with Frailty patients throughout their journey and make a real difference to people’s lives on their path from hospital to home. The successful candidate will provide high quality, responsive care to the patients seen by the team. You will need to demonstrate confidence and clarity with your clinical reasoning and make informed decisions that may assist in turning people around safely and effectively in a short period of time. You must be adaptable to increasing demand often in a high-pressured setting.
You will be a champion of an MDT approach, a strong team player with experience of MDT working and an excellent communicator. You will be adaptable, committed, able to organise and prioritise work effectively and able to work well under pressure. You must be motivated, enthusiastic and have proven experience of working as an autonomous practitioner.A commitment to improving the patient’s experience is essential.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
• To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients/clients in your care.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients/clients under your care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients/clients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use specialist clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition
• Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options. Formulate an initial diagnosis and prognoses in order to recommend best course of intervention and develop comprehensive discharge plans
• To take delegated responsibility from the Band 7 clinician for managing patients/clients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions.
• Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required
• To have the ability to undertake self-directed/lone working in a variety of locations
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Apr 2025
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