Clinical Lead, Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team

Are you a tenacious, confident, and flexible health professional with excellent clinical assessment skills, who can lead by example as well as encourage leadership roles within your team. Can you work autonomously and as part of an integrated, creative and motivated team? Do you like variety and relish the challenge of a fast paced working environment?

If you do and are, we would really like to hear from you!

You will take the role of Clinical Lead within this dynamic, dual funded integrated hybrid team, providing comprehensive geriatric assessments of our elderly & frail population, specialising in admission avoidance services and complex discharge planning covering all Emergency Access Areas of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Main duties of the job

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 complex multi-pathological problems, including delirium, medical/respiratory/neurological or musculo-skeletal conditions.

To respond to a bleep/mobile phone and provide 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 carry out home visits and assess and provide specific equipment as required.

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 QEH employed counterpart to plan, develop, co-ordinate & evaluate the Rapid Assessment Team.

To organise, implement and actively support and take part in the seven day working rota for the integrated Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.