Major Trauma Practitioner

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Job Overview

As an exciting part of the establishment of the South Wales Trauma Network, there is a requirement for Health Boards to ensure an enhancement of major trauma care and coordination in the Trauma

Units (TU’s), as these hospitals will continue to manage a significant proportion of major trauma patients and will receive patients from the Major Trauma Centre (MTC) for ‘care closer to home.’

Aneurin Bevan Health Board will have a TU’s located at GUH.

The unit will have an important role to play the structure of the network.

The purpose of a TU is to provide care for injured patients through:

• Optimisation of definitive care of injured patients. It has an active, effective trauma quality improvement programme. It also provides a managed transition to rehabilitation and the community.
• Having systems in place to rapidly move the most severely injured to hospitals that can manage their injuries.
• Having systems in place to repatriate patients from the MTC.
• Provision of specialist services to trauma patients where relevant.
• Working together as a team within the South East Wales Trauma Network.

There is 1.4 wte available. Full time and part-time options can be considered with successful candidates.

If you are interested in applying for the position please contact Sarah Carrington (Head of Physiotherapy) or Suzanne Bryant (Head of Occupational Therapy).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an allied health professional and hold a clinical case load in their own professional field with the co-ordinator aspect

forming approximately 50% of their role.

• The Major Trauma Rehab Co-ordinator (MTRC) will work as an integral member of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to co-ordinate the rehabilitation pathway across the whole system to place of residence. They will work in partnership with the individual and their family/carers to plan and coordinate the care pathway of all trauma patients who require specialist rehabilitation. The approach will be based on person

centred planning principles which put the individual in control of their own recovery pathway.

• The MTRC will act as a liaison between the acute trauma team, other rehabilitation teams and relevant partner agencies including

health and social care, third sector and community services.

• The MTRC will plan, implement and monitor delivery of individuals’ recovery programme and facilitate transfer to appropriate setting

for their continued recovery. Evaluating patient reported outcomes throughout the patient’s journey will be a key element of this role.

• They will work across the health board to co-ordinate the care pathway of all trauma patients who require specialist rehabilitation.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opened in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Other

Essential criteria

• The ability to adapt to changes in work routine
• Able to establish and maintain working relationships with colleagues from a variety of professional and organisational backgrounds Able to demonstrate an empathetic caring approach to care delivery

Desirable criteria

• The ability to speak Welsh

Skills & Attributes

Essential criteria

• The ability to discuss the clinical reasoning process in the management of complex cases
• Good communication skills both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other professionals, patients and their families
• The ability to design and lead a Health Board wide training programme
• Ability to cope well under pressure including dealing with traumatic situations
• Excellent knowledge of relevant national and local clinical guidelines

Desirable criteria

• The ability to support the management of personnel issues
• IT literate

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification leading to eligibility to register with HCPC (including older Diploma level qualifications)
• Professional Registration – Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of relevant specialist post graduate qualification/ training in rehabilitation at Masters level
• Evidence of relevant and up to date CPD

Desirable criteria

• Active participation in a relevant interest group
• Membership of relevant professional body
• Extensive knowledge of the major trauma patient pathway through the trauma network. Specialist knowledge of conditions relating to traumatic injury

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post graduate clinical experience at senior level (band 6 or above) working with people with a range of clinical needs e.g., rehabilitation (community +/or hospital) major trauma, trauma + orthopaedics, neurological services, spinal injuries, critical care, burns + plastics encompassing complex case management
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of and commitment to leading clinical and organisational audit
• Experience of developing and implementing clinical guidelines and standards
• Experience of supervising staff
• Evidence of having worked unsupervised at a senior level and managing own caseload

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of contributing to change management and innovation in clinical practice
• Experience of integrating user participation in service development
• Prior experience working in/within a Major Trauma Centre/Trauma Unit or equivalent Experience of care co ordination
• Experience of Inter-professional and multiagency team working within both voluntary and statutory services