Occupational Therapist

4 weeks ago

Hastings, United Kingdom East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

The urgent community response (UCR) team is a community based team, providing health and homecare support to patients to prevent an avoidable hospital admission and support hospital discharge. The team support patients on the urgent community response, virtual wards and home first pathways.

As an Occupational Therapist, you will be part of a MDT promoting high quality care in the community. Our Occupational Therapists provide a rapid initiation of assessment and will continue with provision of treatment and reviews for patients Occupational Therapy needs for up to 72 hours.

The team has seen expansion over the last 12 months to support virtual ward pathways. This has seen the addition of dietitians, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy to extend the multidisciplinary team. The team have occupational therapy apprentices so this role would be to support the OT workforce of the future .

Main duties of the job

This role is to provide fast paced interventions to support patients to remain at home. There is a rapid throughput of patients through the UCR team. The post holder needs to be aware of the criteria and scope for UCR OT interventions and be aware of all the onward pathways.

About us

We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people's own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as 'Good' overall, and 'Outstanding' for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated 'Outstanding'. Eastbourne DGH rated 'Good'.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious 'Building for our Future' programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

Degree or diploma in Occupational therapy Current registration with HPC

Desirable

Specialist postgraduate training Practice Placement Education Certificate

Experience

Essential

2-3 years rotational experience Experience of training/supervision Experience of multi-professional working

Desirable

Experience in Acute and community setting Experience of Neurological conditions Experience of using client-centred goals

Skills/Knowledge, Abilities

Essential

Knowledge of client centred practice Awareness of clinical governance and understanding of the NHS and challenges facing service delivery The ability to verbalise the clinical reasoning process in the management of routine cases Motivated to work flexibly within an inter-professional framework Evidence of initiative and ability to use own initiative within boundaries of role Accuracy and attention to detail Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate workload Ability to implement and respond to change

Desirable

Specialist client group knowledge

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