Clinical Specialist/Therapist - Acute Frailty

We are recruiting for a Clinical Specialist Therapist in Acute Frailty who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

·   To work autonomously as a clinical specialist nurse/AHP to provide advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients within the acute frailty pathway.

·      This post will work primarily within the emergency care floor and in-reach into acute wards, liaising appropriately with acute therapy and nursing teams in order to assess needs, providing same day services, as well as supporting the effective use of alternatives to acute care including SDEC, virtual wards and community rapid response services.

·      To support (and create where required) the delivery of frailty awareness activities across acute service.