Falls Reduction Practitioner

Main Purpose of the Job

An exciting opportunity is available to support the lead role in delivering a sustained reduction in the rate of falls among in
- patients as well as an associated reduction in their level of harm across the Trust.

The role will provide specialist advice, teaching and guidance for the clinical areas and act as a resource for evidence-based knowledge to enable appropriate and timely identification, assessment, treatment and management for those who have fallen or are at risk of falling.

The post holder will promote a culture of enhancing independence, maintaining or improving functional ability and encouraging an ethos of embracing risk to enable patient choice. The post holder will place an emphasis on promoting mobility, movement and strength amongst our patients and work with multidisciplinary team members.

Implement and monitor falls reduction strategy

Multi faceted approach to falls reduction

Delivery of education to MDT

Recording data and reviewing trends

Liaising with other disciplines

Assess clinical areas

Comprehensive analysis and investigation on patient falls and assist with action plans and recommendations

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.