Clinical Practitioner

1 day ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Homeward Assessment Team (HAT) is a joint collaboration of the Urgent Care Directorate, GHC and Frailty Service at GHNHSFT. Based at the Emergency Department, Gloucester Royal Hospital. The teams purpose is to provide a rapid ( within 15 minutes of referral ) assessment of patients to prevent admission to the acute trust.

The post holder will be responsible for providing therapy assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of high-quality holistic therapy patient care, within the Emergency Department at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital working as part of the Homeward Assessment Team.

The HAT team are extremely supportive. New staff are allocated a mentor who will support and guide individual development.

There is an approx. 6-8 week induction period supernumerary to the off duty. This allows for any visit to other teams/services/completion of competencies to be achieved.

A good sense of humour is essential.
- To assess a cohort of patients within the Emergency Department (ED) from presentation through to discharge.
- Be proactive working closely with the GHNHSFT Frailty Service.
- Through training and development educate GHNHSFT and staff of available discharge pathways and signpost to enable discharges out of service hours.
- Working with colleagues, to risk assesses suitability for discharge and ensure that arrangements are appropriate and timely.
- To communicate information on discharge to inter-disciplinary teams, multi-agency teams, outside providers, patients and carers.
- To work with community services, ie CATU, GHC Rapid Response Team (RR) to help develop a system of ‘pulling’ patients’ - higher acuity patients out of the acute hospitals.
- Lead and support the wider team on those patients who require a more in depth Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy assessment.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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