Intermediate Care Service Occupational Therapist

7 months ago

Wigton, United Kingdom North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To practice in accordance with the College of Occupational Therapy Code of Professional Conduct and The Health Professions Council Regulations.

To provide quality occupational therapy services to patients in the Intermediate Care Service. To work with a complex caseload undertaking assessment, planning, treatment, and evaluation of patient’s needs, with supervision from senior OT staff.

To work with the Intermediate Care team to ensure the provision of high quality and responsive Occupational therapy services within the Intermediate Care Service, maximising occupational performance in relation to social, physical, psychological, and environmental needs of adults. These needs are often complicated by the multiple pathology of old age.

To contribute to the analysis, planning, audit, development and evaluation of clinical services within the community therapy team.

The role of the Intermediate Care Service is to provide efficient and effective patient focused care to all service users within primary and secondary care settings. This seamless provision ensures equity of service, patient choice and high standards of personalized care.

The role of the Intermediate Care Service is to provide specialised rehabilitation to patients within interim 24hr bedded settings, facilitating smooth transfer from Acute and Community Hospital settings. To assist patients to achieve their optimal level of independence and integrate back into their communities with the appropriate level of support for them and their carers. To prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and promote a supported discharge from hospital as early as is appropriate and safe. To provide high quality multi-disciplinary (MDT) assessment and treatment, advice/support and / or referral onto other agencies.

The referrals will predominantly be from both the Acute and Community Hospitals, but where appropriate from community settings where is has been recognised that a patient needs to step up into a service such as the Intermediate Care Service to prevent an admission to the Acute Trust.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':
Being a clinically led organisation

Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust

A positive patient experience every time

A great place to work

Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

The Trust will provide a twelve month preceptorship period for all newly registered healthcare professionals.

Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
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