Clinical Lead, Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team

King's Lynn, ENG, GB, United Kingdom

Job Description

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 including the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care unit.



This is an exciting opportunity to remain clinically active whilst also working with the team lead, to develop future opportunities for and within the team



Main duties of the job

To take the role of Clinical Lead for the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team, 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 conditions & problems,



To respond to a bleep/mobile phone, 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 of patients

within the speciality, with an emphasis on those with highly complex and/or chronic presentation.

To carry out home visits and assess & 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, actively support & evaluate the Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.

To take part in the seven day working rota for the integrated Rapid Assessment & Frailty Team.



Find out more about working for our organisation here:



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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD3082455
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    King's Lynn, ENG, GB, United Kingdom
  • Education
    Not mentioned