Home first Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist
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Thank you for your interest in this opportunity at West London NHS Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic professional who can help the Community Independence Service (CIS) make Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) a great place to grow old. As a member of the CIS Home First team, you will be expected to be a clinician with a broad range of competencies who can adapt to a wide variety of clinical circumstances. You will use evidence-based principles, current best practices, and specialist skills to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions and to optimize patient safety following their discharge from the hospital. You will deliver skilled physiotherapy or occupational therapy care to clients in their own homes, based on a thorough holistic and risk assessment of their clinical and personal needs and the agreement of an individualized care plan. You will enjoy the rewards of working with a client group for whom you can make a significant difference every day through your face-to-face client visits and care plan management. You will experience the strong motivation of being part of a supportive multi-agency effort that includes medical, mental health, nursing, allied health professionals, social care, and reablement staff. We will equip you for mobile working and actively support flexible working practices.
Key Responsibilities
* To support the transition of patients from acute services to the community and provide community assessments for people in the home first pathway.
* The post holder will work in partnership with colleagues in the acute sector, social services, intermediate and primary care services to ensure that appropriate patients from the acute setting are transferred in a safe, timely and seamless manner into the community.
* The post holder will coordinate the home first HCA care delivery.
* The post holder will ensure effective onward transfer of patient care from home first to community pathways as required.
* To identify/case find and pull potential CIS patients in partnership with acute colleagues ensuring that as soon as patients are medically stable they are transferred to the appropriate community service.
* To independently undertake assessments of health and social care needs at home and plan community services required.
* To support and enable the process of safe discharge from secondary
* To organise the overall daily management of the Home First team in order to ensure that service requirements are met, and ensure access, equipment and resources are in one place to allow the Health Care Assistant (HCA) team to safely meet the needs of the patient in the community.
The service is operational 7 days a week 8 am to 8 pm. Hours of work for therapists will vary between these hours.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kuldip Kaur Job title: Rapid Pathway Lead Email address: Kuldip.kaur2@nhs.net
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