Community Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated Community Team based in the Cotswold Locality.

This post will have a focus on Home First & Reablement, facilitating hospital discharge and working with patients to develop and achieve their rehabilitation goals.

The ICT consists of Occupational Therapists, Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, and a Home First/Reablement service.  We work closely with a range of teams from within our own organisation and key local system partners including, Adult Social Care, GPs, Residential homes, Acute hospitals, Community hospitals, housing and voluntary organisations.

The ethos of the team is a rehabilitation, person-led approach to recovery and self-management, to ensure we offer care close to home, avoiding unnecessary admissions to bed based services and supporting timely discharge from hospital.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will need to demonstrate skills in clinical triage and experience of delivering urgent responses for rapid assessment of patients’ needs, planning and providing timely rehabilitation or compensatory strategies/aids.  Our philosophy is that supported self-management is key to personalised and positive outcomes for people.

This is an ideal opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist wishing to develop their leadership skills within a community setting at the forefront of development across the locality.

When applying for this position, please ensure that your supporting statement makes it clear how you meet the person specification, especially with regards to the values and behaviours expected of all colleagues. This will figure largely in our short-listing criteria and the overall selection process.

If you would like to work in a team that values it’s staff, aims to deliver the best care with compassion to all patients, their carers’ and families we would like to hear from you!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.