Occupational Therapist

2 weeks ago

West Bromwich West Midlands, United Kingdom Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust Full time

Your role will focus on the promotion of independence and the proactive management of frailty in this outstanding, multi-disciplinary front door frailty team. The successful candidate will be partnering with our MDT colleagues (ACPs, junior doctors and Geriatricians) to expand our same day emergency care (SDEC) offering to frail patients who find themselves in crisis with frailty syndromes such as a sudden deterioration in mobility, falls and delirium.


We are busy preparing our team for the move to our new hospital in 2024 and you could be key in helping us to make this transition well. Our new hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, will open next year - bringing together teams providing acute and emergency care. You will work as part of a multi-professional team within our emergency department and Same Day Emergency Care area seeing a wide range of clinical presentations within our local frail older adult population. Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, promoting a 'home first' mindset
Facilitate hospital discharges with appropriate community services follow up
Commence therapy for frail older adults who require admission for medical care

As an integrated therapy service we comprise both physiotherapists and occupational therapists. You will work closely with geriatricians and the Advanced Clinical Practitioners, as well as your colleagues in the rapid response therapy team, who closely work with the Frailty Intervention Team.


Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately 600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.


Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.


Provide specialist assessment and treatment of patients with diverse and complex presentations within all emergency care and assessment units, and other areas of acute medicine as required.
Contribute to the development of the service within the Rapid Response Therapy Service and Frailty Intervention Team
Post Graduate Experience at Band 5 level including experience working with frail older adults
Contribution to the clinical education of less experienced staff or undergraduate Occupational Therapy students

Degree/Diploma/Masters in Occupational Therapy
Able to organise, supervise and delegate tasks to junior therapists and support workers

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