Falls Prevention Associate Practitioner

The Clinical Practice Team is Trust-wide and includes specialists in Falls Prevention, Tissue Viability, Clinical Digital Nursing and Professions, and Moving & Handling.

The Falls Team supports all UHD healthcare professionals, patients, and carers through the provision of education, advice, and service development to prevent falls and promote best practice when a fall has occurred. The team plays a key role in supporting compliance with national falls prevention guidance and contributing to the reduction of falls across the organisation.

This Band 4 role will work under the direction of senior clinicians within the Clinical Practice Team, supporting falls prevention projects, education delivery, audit activity.

Rota: Monday to Friday, 8:00-16:00 or 9:00-17:00, to ensure service coverage, Your role will support the delivery of the Trust Falls Prevention Programme and contribute to monitoring the effectiveness of the Trust Falls Strategy, working under the supervision of senior clinicians to support compliance with national and local falls prevention guidance.

The role will involve providing advice and practical support to clinical areas, assisting with the coordination of After Action Reviews of falls incidents in line with Trust processes.

In addition, the post-holder will contribute to Trust-wide education, audit, and quality-improvement activities to support awareness and best practice in falls prevention.

Strong IT skills are required to support data collection, reporting, and learning dissemination, alongside an ability to engage positively with staff around patient safety initiatives.

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

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