Falls Assistant Practitioner - Bodmin, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Bodmin, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual with a keen interest in falls prevention to join a pilot run by the Inpatient Falls Team.

This role will focus on providing support to the inpatient teams with falls risk assessment for patients who had multiple falls and support with advice on most appropriate fall prevention strategies for those patients to decrease the likelihood of inpatient falls occurring.

We are looking for an experienced, caring, motivated Assistant Practitioner to join our developing Inpatient Falls Team. You should have experience of liaising with different healthcare professionals and innovative delivery of excellent standards of care.

You will need to be able to demonstrate a real enthusiasm for falls prevention agenda as well as knowledge of the current standards and recommendations in this area.

You should be able to work autonomously with mínimal supervision and be able to prioritise your caseload.

You will need to have the ability to travel independently across the county to fulfil this post's requirements.

To work alongside the inpatient ward teams within the ACS and MH setting as part of the Trust's Inpatient Falls Team supporting multi-factorial assessments of patients referred to the service with aim to decrease the likelihood of multiple during patient's admission.

The post holder will work under structured guidelines from Clinical Specialist Falls Lead and with mínimal direct supervision providing falls prevention advice to patients and members of the ward team
in accordance with agreed protocols.

One of the main aspects of this post will be providing support the inpatient ward teams with learning from inpatient fall incident by utilising post fall huddle and reflexion.

They will carry out a review of multifactorial falls risk assessment and personalised care planning and communicate and support the onward referrals to internal and external services / agencies.

Part of this role will be to triage referrals received from the incident system and directly from the ward teams, keep accurate documentation of input provided and raise any issues or emerging themes or
trends to the Clinical Specialist Falls Lead.

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us.

As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals.

Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see 'supporting documents'.