Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Care Of The Older Person

The job purpose is to lead the inpatient older person physiotherapy team, working with the FIT clinical specialist, senior physiotherapists and rehabilitation co-ordinators to best guide services to enhance patient care and pathways to support patient flow, early intervention and discharge planning. To identify unmet need and to develop and expand older person’s pathways of care to meet this need. To provide expert clinical assessment, identifying frailty and delirium and tailoring interventions appropriately for complex patient presentations. To provide expert decision making on patient discharge and identifying and mitigating associated patient risk whilst advocating for patient preference. To work as part of all multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) to organise, coordinate and progress the Mater physiotherapy COTOP service.

Informal enquiries can be made to Eoghan Fitzsimons, Physiotherapy Operations Manager, 01 803 4120, eoghanfitzsimons@mater.ie or Jennifer Stafford, Physiotherapy Operations Manage, 01 803 4120, jstafford@mater.ie