Senior Occupational Therapist

Job overview

New and exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated therapies team. This is a new post as our dynamic and effective team is growing!

While working with our Virtual Ward (VW), Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Neighbourhood teams you will be at the forefront of delivering high quality patient care to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.

Our Hospital at Home therapy team are an integral part of our UCR Service and our VWs. We are a multi-disciplinary team so you will be working alongside physiotherapists, assistant practitioners, Advanced Clinical practitioners, GPs, consultants and Nurses.

There will be support and opportunity to gain specialist Occupational Therapy Band 6 competencies within the speciality.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in developing their specialist knowledge, working closely with our integrated teams with aim of preventing hospital admissions and facilitating early discharges from hospital.

You will be offered regular formal (and informal) supervision with training opportunities to support your development. The hospital at home therapy team have a high patient satisfaction rate with excellent feedback.

Main duties of the job

To work within the Integrated Community Therapy Team,  providing   specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.  To liaise with other health & social care professionals, to enable people to continue living in/to return to their homes in the community following illness or disability. To contribute to the ethos of person-centred care, care closer to home and self-management, by promoting the philosophy of Occupational Therapy within the team.

Aim to develop optimum levels of function and independence in the physical, emotional and social aspects of life to prevent inappropriate admission to hospital and facilitate timely and appropriate discharge from the acute sector utilising the discharge to assess pathway.

Each day is varied and interesting - You will conduct specialist assessments for things like acute functional decline, complex moving and handling, transfer and gait assessment and find solutions where possible with adaptive equipment or treatment plans.  You will regularly be working autonomously but will also have plenty of opportunities for joint working with the wider UCR/VW MDT.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.