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Job role: Home First Therapist
Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 333-G-CIS-0218
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About the Job:
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of own patient caseload. To ensure a high level of care, and support more junior staff to do likewise.
- Promote a holistic, supportive, and patient cantered service that facilitates an intervention approach to promote change, acceptance and promotes self-management aiming to optimises functional improvement
- Work with Home First: supporting with triage, patient care pathway, and sharing knowledge related to the discharge to assess and admission avoidance strategies
- Work with patients, carers and families, and other statutory health related services
- Work autonomously and within the MDT team delivering individualised treatment interventions and management programmes
- Be flexible in the approach to delivering treatment and advice, have skills to deliver a variety of treatment interventions
- Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
- To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to analyse and provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
- Manage a patient through the entirety of their care episode in relation to Home First assessment, symptom management, support and discharge.
- Where appropriate to work collaboratively with primary and secondary health care services, third sector services and social prescribing, education and social services, to ensure the delivery of a seamless and high-quality service.
- Have a broad skill set which can include advanced skills in delivering therapy intervention in order to provide a 2-hour urgent response for patients in a crisis.
- Manage severe complex, house bound patients. The CIS Home First service offers a domiciliary service to severely affected individuals; this requires collaborative working with social services and other attending care agencies.
- Be able to recognise the signs and symptoms of a deteriorating patient, having the skills to escalate accordingly.
- Be an advocate for the patient.
- Knowledge of where to sign-post patients for support, e.g. local or national support groups
- To be responsible for a caseload and work without direct supervision, and provide peer support for members of the MDT
- To ensure patient care and planned interventions are supported by available evidence base and experiential knowledge and are in accordance with Code of Professional conduct.
- To keep up to date and monitor literature related to Discharge to Assess and Crisis Response.
- To carryout risk assessment in line with Trust/National Protocol.
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