Frailty Occupational Therapist or Nurse Practitioner

As an occupational therapist/nurse practitioner, you will spend time in a patient-facing role in the Emergency Department & the Frailty SDEC in the identification of frailty patients early in their journey to provide holistic assessment and prevent hospital admissions. The Frailty Service provides a front-door assessment and inpatient service, providing comprehensive geriatric assessments, complex care plans and advice to older people attending the acute hospital services with a frailty syndrome. The team aim to support admission avoidance, reduce length of stay, and avoid unnecessary re-admissions for individuals living with frailty. You will work collaboratively with, and be supported by, the Frailty team leads, Consultant Geriatricians, GPs and a team of multidisciplinary frailty practitioners that includes nurses, medics, physiotherapists, and a pharmacist. This post would suit an Occupational Therapist or Nurse with experience of elderly care, emergency medicine and/or a rehabilitation background. The frailty service operates 7 days a week, currently 7am-5pm, but this will soon be expanded to an 8-8 service model. The post holder will be required to work within these operating hours, including sharing weekend and bank holiday cover with the other members of the team.,

• To work closely with the Frailty team leads, the Frailty Practitioners, medics and Consultant Geriatricians to proactively identify and manage patients with frailty and support them in the development of supportive management plans.
• To undertake Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments for individuals presenting with a frailty crisis and their carers where needs are highly complex. This will involve planning, implementing, and evaluating the care delivery according to changing healthcare needs.
• To provide evidence-based holistic assessment and treatment planning for patients with frailty referred to the service,without direct supervision.
• To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues, specifically primary care and community teams and Social Care professionals, to lead and facilitate a patient focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.
• To provide expertise in their own discipline to the wider team and seek professional supervision from colleagues within their professional discipline.
• To complete onward referrals to specialist teams, assess for and order any necessary equipment as appropriate for the longer-term maintenance and prevention of further frailty crises (OT specific).
  
  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. 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,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future. We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.