Specialist Frailty Occupational Therapist

To work as a specialist Frailty Occupational Therapist within the CHFT Acute Frailty service. This is a rapidly developing service with the aim of providing a comprehensive geriatric assessment to frail patients presenting to the acute areas of CHFT. This is a challenging and exciting post working within an evolving integrated multidisciplinary team. You will be required to assess frail patients across CHFT this will include the new emergency department, medical assessment unit, and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care unit (FSDEC). You will utilise your core occupational therapy skills to support the complex needs of frail patients. Working within a multi-disciplinary team to provide holistic assessment meeting the needs of our patients with a strong focus on the home first approach. You will get the opportunities to expand your knowledge with skill sharing competencies alongside your occupational therapy skills to formulate individual treatment plans. The Acute Frailty Team has growing opportunities for development with positive encouragement for individuals to be involved in service development. Our service operates 7 days per week including weekends and bank holidays.,

• Candidates must have previous NHS experience either as an undergraduate or postgraduate
• To act as specialist clinician for the Acute Frailty Service within the Acute Medicine directorate.
• Work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records.
• To manage own specialist caseload, demonstrating excellent skills in effective prioritisation in fast paced environment.
• Provide and develop the core components of the specialist therapy role including clinical practice, management and education.
• Act as a clinical role model ensuring best practice in all assessments.
• To support the Team Leader in the day to day running of the Acute Frailty service.
• To support and advise in the wider MDT, on the delivery of excellent care of the frail patient.
• To participate in the assessment, planning, implementation of individualised treatment plans for frail older adults.
• To recognise the changes in patients' conditions which require the intervention.
• To advocate for patients following holistic assessment.
  
  We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.