Job overview
Surrey Downs Health & Care
Working across organisational boundaries and as an integral part of the Surrey Downs Health and Care system, the integrated health and care team is responsible for providing rapid access, enhanced, short term health and care support for people who would otherwise need emergency hospital admission as well for as those medically stable to return home from an acute hospital but requiring enhanced short term support as one stage in their on-going care pathway. The Surrey Downs Health and Care Home First service spans the acute and community providing joined up, co-ordinated care to local citizens with health and social care needs. The service aims to support people living as independently as possible by offering rapid multidisciplinary assessment and support at times of crisis as well as
The rapid response function provides assessment within 2 hours of referral and a short-term intervention to mitigate the risk of a hospital admission by providing service users with a short-term, high intensity package of care in the person’s own home as an alternative to hospital admission. Where admission has been unavoidable the team provide hospital in-reach with multidisciplinary discharge planning (community assessment, reablement, and support packages) to facilitate an early discharge from hospital and support people to return to their own homes as quickly as possible.
Main duties of the job
To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team in assessment and management of a caseload of clients. To plan, deliver and evaluate the treatment needs of clients with a variety of complex social and health care needs.
To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team in developing and delivering high quality and innovative services to the local population. The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research.
To promote effective teamwork within the wider Surrey Downs Health and Care Team, delegating activities appropriately, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.
As a therapist within Surrey Downs Health and Care there will be the opportunity to work closely alongside and potentially rotate into other sectors of the organisation, including the Home First Service who provide enhanced supported discharge and prevention of acute hospital admission.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
1. The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
2. CSH Surrey
3. Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
4. Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
5. To undertake timely, holistic assessments of patients, involving functional and environmental factors
6. To be able to undertake assessment and interventions within a hospital setting as well as at home, either supporting people to remain in their own home safely or supporting discharge from the acute setting/hospital.
7. To be able undertake assessments autonomously as well as working with other members of the MDT.
8. To provide comprehensive intervention to patients making use of assessment and treatment facilities where appropriate.
9. To be able to make rapid decisions where required, using clinical reasoning skills, knowledge and experience, with support as appropriate.
10. To be responsible for a clinical caseload working within multi-disciplinary teams, sharing care appropriately ensuring patients and carers receive optimum level of therapy and holistic care within available resources.To be able to appropriately gain a person’s consent to engage with assessment and intervention as required.Recognising that people may present with complex conditions or may have emotional, physical or physiological conditions, requiring the use of verbal and non-verbal communication skills
11. To be able to assess and identify those who lack capacity to consent to treatment and be able to work with them within a legal framework.
12. To be able to adopt a range of communication methods as appropriate in view of educational, social or identified barriers to effective communication, e.g. language preference, language disorder, cognitive of emotional barriers.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
13. AHP with appropriate Diploma/ degree
14. Current registration with HCPC
15. Experience and/or additional education in relevant field to post gradual diploma or equivalent level, combination of education, further training and experience.
16. Valid driving licence with use of car for work
Desirable criteria
17. Membership of the CSP
18. Qualification in team / service management or prepared to work towards.
Experience
Essential criteria
19. Evidence of recent post-graduate experience in core areas including elderly care, respiratory and rapid response
20. Experience of working in a community/ primary care setting
21. Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary/ interdisciplinary environment
22. Experience of working and assessing people with complex needs and delivering complex care plans
Desirable criteria
23. Experience In multi-agency working
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
24. Knowledge of principles of care for long term conditions, relevant National Service Frameworks, NICE and other national standards including the out of hospital strategies
25. Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex multi-pathologies
26. Knowledge and understanding of current health care policy and relevance to the delivery of healthcare services
27. An understanding of the importance of involving service users in their treatment and development of the service
28. Basic computer skills including use of – Word, Power point, Excel, clinical recording systems
Desirable criteria
29. Experience in research and audit
30. Experience in Performance management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
NamePhilippa GibsonJob titleOperational LeadEmail addressTelephone number07721741556