Therapy Discharge Practitioner

3 months ago

Halifax, United Kingdom Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This post will sit within the Therapy & Discharge Team and will be based across acute hospital wards.

Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust (CHFT) are implementing the Home First Model for patient care. This utilises the principles of discharge to assess which aims to ensure that patients who are medically optimised and no longer need a hospital bed, can leave hospital, and have their assessment in the most suitable setting. The Therapy Discharge Practitioner role is pivotal in shaping these services and asking the question “why not home and why not today?”

The post holder will provide a single point of contact for patients, families, carers and associated people and co-ordinate/contribute to the safe and timely hospital discharge in partnership with other multi-disciplinary colleagues/agencies. The post holder will be supported to develop therapy skills through competency training such as walking aid assessment and assessing for basic equipment.

This post will work over a 7 day service and therefore the post holder will be required to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

The post holder will maintain momentum of discharge planning throughout the entire process; supporting and working in partnership with other members of the MDT. The post holder will act as a Trusted Assessor for health and social care pathways and will complete relevant referral pathway documentation, such as Trusted Assessor forms.

The postholder will have a more in-depth education and understanding about factors that influence health and ill-health and knowledge of the wider health and social care network of services available to support patients. for example anatomy and physiology. Your work at this level will require enhanced skills which may be within a specialist clinical area. This includes tasks such as assessing for appropriate walking aids or assessing if equipment is required to support transfers for instance (this is not an exhaustive list and will depend on the area that you work as to what activities are completed regularly and what is appropriate). These assessments will also lead to you ordering equipment for patients to support their needs based on the assessments you have carried out. You will be supported to develop these skills through competency training.

The post holder may undertake lone working (sometimes within a patients own home) in line with Trust Policy

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres 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. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

The post holder will undertake highly skilled support work with people who have suffered an illness or injury, resulting in temporary or permanent disability and loss of function in daily activities, This work includes managing a caseload and working independently in the treatment and care of patients within the therapy teams.
The post holder will be working under indirect supervision of registered practitioners in the team. This will involve taking responsibility for an identified and allocated caseload following screening / assessment by a registered practitioner and will involve a degree of autonomy depending on the complexity and risk of procedures being undertaken.
Work will be carried out in hospital or community setting and may involve visits to the patient’s own home. This work is a hands on patient facing role across all settings. The post holder may be required to work weekends on a rota basis across Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust.

Activities will include

1. Formal knowledge and experience

1. Supporting patients and service users

Supporting patients and service users and their families, and providing care throughout their care and care pathways
- Will involve assessing for, ordering,

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