**Surrey Downs Health & Care**
Working across organisational boundaries and as an integral part of the Surrey
Downs Health and Care system, the integrated health and care team is
responsible for providing rapid access, enhanced, short term health and care
support for people who would otherwise need emergency hospital admission as
well for as those medically stable to return home from an acute hospital but
requiring enhanced short term support as one stage in their on-going care
pathway
The Home First service operates a 7 day
week service from 8am to 8pm working
across both the community and hospital settings. Staff are required to work
flexibly over the week covering, on average, one weekend within a four week
roster period.****
**Main duties of the job**
* To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team in the assessment and management of a caseload of clients.
* To plan, deliver and evaluate the treatment needs of clients with a variety of complex social and health care needs.
* To participate as an active member of the multidisciplinary team in developing and delivering high quality and innovative services to the local population.
* To promote effective teamwork within the wider Surrey Downs Health and Care, delegating activities appropriately, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.
* As a therapist within Surrey Downs Health and Care there will be the opportunity to work closely alongside and potentially rotate into other sectors of the organisation.
* The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research
**About us**
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to peoples own communities
through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services
and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered
care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the
individual. This partnership includes:
* The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
* CSH Surrey
* Epsom and St Heliers University Hospitals NHS Trust
* Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that
provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but
we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people
who need us.
Its on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we
want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment.
By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable
local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than
ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of
values that will translate into better care for our residents.
**Job description**
**Job responsibilities**
**Please refer to Job description attached for detailed information**
**Clinical**
**Patient Care**
* To be responsible for a clinical caseload working within multi-disciplinary team (MDT), ensuring patients and carers receive optimum level of therapy and holistic care within available resources.
* To undertake timely, holistic assessments of patients, involving functional and environmental factors.
* To be able undertake assessments autonomously as well as working with other members of the MDT.
* To be able to undertake assessment and interventions within a community unit as well as at home, either supporting people to remain in their own home safely or supporting discharge from the acute settinghospital.
* To be able to work with a personfriends and family to identify person centred SMART goals (care plan), using clinical reasoning and evidence based practise.
* To be able to make rapid decisions where required, using clinical reasoning skills, knowledge and experience, with support as appropriate.
* To be able to complete basic observations on a person, interpret these results and act on them appropriately, with support from other members of the MDT.
* Willingness and enthusiasm to work toward cross-disciplinary capabilities.
* To be able to monitor a persons progress and adapt treatment plans and interventionrecommendations as appropriate, using outcome measures and reflective practise.
* To have an awareness of local community services and be able to refer to these appropriately and in a timely manner.
* To contribute to the development of information that enables a person to understand and self-manage their condition whenever possible.
**CommunicationRelationship Skills**
* To be able to appropriately gain a persons consent to engage with assessment and intervention as required. Recognising that people may present with complex conditions or may have emotional, physical or physiological conditions, requiring the use of verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
* To be able to assess and identify those who lack the capacity to consent to treatment and be able to work with them within a legal framework.
* To be able to adopt a range of communication methods as appropriate in view of educational, social or identified barriers to effective communication, e.g. language preference, language disorder, cognitive or emotional barriers.
* To communicate effectively with other Surrey Downs Health and Care
Sutton Health and Care team members, as well as others involved in the persons care, e.g. other professionals, teams and familycarers to ensure a one team approach is maintained.
* Key communication areas include:
* Hospital Staff
* Patients, Families and Carers
* Community Nursing and Therapy Teams
* Accident and Emergency Departments
* Primary Care (including Practice Organisations)
* PALS
* Out of Hours Services
* Voluntary Services
* Local Authorities
* Independent Care Homes
* Bedded Rehabilitatio
* To attend and participate in daily team meetingshuddles.
* To attend and participate in meetings held within the community andor acute setting as required.
* To be able to keep accurate, up-to-date records using agreed system.
* Ensure that all records pertinent to a persons care comply with quality standards of TrustProfessionalService policies and meet legal requirements.
* To be able to provide comprehensive written andor verbal reports to other professionalsagencies involved in a persons care.
* To develop awareness and be sensitive to team dynamics. Be able to respond appropriately when considering your own role and the role of others in the team, being sensitive to the needs of your colleagues.
**HealthSafety and Security Responsibilities**
* To undertake and advise on safe moving and handling of a person and apply manual handling techniques to assessment and treatment. To provide a person andor familyinformal carers with education and advice regarding appropriate manual handling techniques, seeking support from senior team members as required.
* To carry out risk assessments when necessary, formulate and carry out action plans to reduce risk.
* To comply and promote safe working practises with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, as well as Epsom Health and Care policies and procedures.
* To have current knowledge of infection control, which may impact on your areas of work.
* To report all clinical and non-clinical incidentsnear misses, as per appropriate policy.
* To take independent responsibility for ensuring mandatory training is up to date.
* To ensure that you are able to access all appropriate policies and procedures adopted by Surrey Downs Health and Care
Sutton Health and Care.
**Planning and Organisational Duties**
* To be able to prioritise effectively and be flexible to the demands of the service. To be able to respond to urgent referrals and clinical queries as required throughout the day.
* To demonstrate flexibility according to the needs of the service and the clinical area as directed by senior staff.
* To have an understanding of clinical governance and risk management.
* To enhance and maintain co-operative working relationships with colleagues from all sectors.
* To contribute to and participate in team objectives and service developments.
* To participate in team and service related meetings, planning, organising, chairing or minute taking when required.
* To represent and promote Surrey Downs Health and Care
Sutton Health and Care @home service to others.
**Managerial**
**Personal and People Development Responsibilities**
* To assist colleagues by monitoring caseloads, recording statistics and prioritising referrals as required.
* To develop and maintain professional, clinical and managerial skills through supervisionappraisal, CPD and a personal development plan agreed with the line managerprofessional manager.
* To participate in the staff development programme by actively encouraging and engaging in supervision, training and development opportunities within the team, including students e.g. through in services training, 1:1 supervision, Personal Development Plans etc.
* To provide clinical supervision, appraisal and competency framework for junior staff members, support workers, and assistants in the team, by providing theoretical and practical clinical training.
* To clinically supervise OT students, having attended practise placement educator course. Support with other discipline practise placements as required.
* To delegate duties to colleagues appropriately.
**Quality and Service Development Responsibilities**
* To abide by the HCPC
COT rules of professional conduct and local professional and quality st