This a new and exciting team of Nurses and Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists. The team includes doctors, specialist nurses and therapists who care for frail and elderly patients in the Emergency Department, the Acute Admissions Unit and throughout the hospital. The development of virtual frailty wards aims to allow the team to support patients in their own homes via early supported discharge or admission avoidance processes.
The Frailty Virtual Ward of Newham Hospital provide safe care in the patient’s own home to avoid admission into the acute hospitals or facilitate safe, earlier timely discharges for those patients where ongoing management can be provided with clinical and care support in their place of residence. The unit aims improve patient experience and outcomes.
The Senior Physiotherapist is a member of Newham University Hospital’s virtual frailty ward team delivering multidisciplinary assessment and clinical management for frail patients within the hospital, the emergency department and in the community. The post holder Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care for patients with frailty needs and make changes as necessary.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dezerree Berry Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: dezerree.berry@nhs.net Telephone number: 02073639219
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