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AHP Services
Major Trauma Rehabilitation Coordinator
Band 7
37.0 hours post
Fixed term ( Maternity Leave 12 months )
This is an exciting time to co-ordinate Major Trauma rehabilitation services for NHS Borders and join a close network of staff delivering integrated services including AHP’s, Clinical Psychology, General Surgeon, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Geriatrician, Anaesthetist, Auditor, ED Consultant and SAS.
The team were nominated finalists in the category of ‘Integrated Care’ in the 2023 Scottish Health Awards and seek to sustain this standard of practice.
Close links are in place locally with Major Trauma clinical leads and with co-ordinators across the South East network and nationally. Excellent access to training opportunities are present across the network.
The post holder will ensure that Major trauma services continue the ethos to deliver care in a timely fashion and where needed enhance the team in-reach into the acute pathway based at Borders General Hospital and out into the community setting to establish best patient outcomes and efficient discharge planning to reduce length of stay. Ensuring rapid repatriations requires the post holder to be able to manage quickly changing workload and priorities whilst achieving KPI’s.
The post holder will play a key leadership role to improve the quality of healthcare experience and the development of services, and a proportion of the role will be sustaining statistical information and presenting at local and national level. The post holder is required to communicate with a large number of people at local & national level and engage with senior managers, practitioner and clinicians across NHS Borders and partner agencies.
For further information please contact Jillian Gordon (Major Trauma Co-ordinator) or Sarah Grandison (Advanced OT practitioner), AHP Hub, Borders General Hospital Tel: 01896 826545
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