Inpatient Pathway Occupational Therapist

6 days ago

Taunton, United Kingdom Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you passionate about Occupational Therapy? Are you looking for a role that supports people on a journey of recovery, and enable them to live the life to the best of their ability? Do you want to use your dual training skills to help people to live their lives

Come and make a difference by joining our innovative Intermediate Care Reablement Team. The role of Occupational Therapy is essential in supporting people to transition back to their home environment, by focusing on what they want to, need to, have to and most importantly LIKE to do to ensure they life have purpose value and meaning.

The team consists of a Discharge Co-ordinator, OTs, Physios, Reablement Support Workers & Adult Social Care Workers all working with a shared vision of putting the person at the centre of their care. The role is based within a care home team which is walking distance from the centre of Taunton and the ethos is to enable people to be as independent as possible. We see people not only for their ongoing rehabilitations and support needs once discharged from the Acute hospital, but also through to the next stage of their journey into their home environment. This role works in collaboration with ongoing services to enable a person to maximise their potential in all aspects of occupations that are important to them.

Due to progression, we have a fantastic Band 6 full-time opportunity. We have flexible working if required to support you with your work-life balance and competing needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work their hours over 7 days, including out of hours, weekends and bank holidays, to meet the needs of the service, and must have UK driving licence and business insurance with access to a car for work duties.

In this post, you will be supported to:

To provide high quality patient-centred care and specialist rehabilitation to adults referred to the Intermediate Care Bedded Pathway Service.

Develop, use and be creative with your OT skills to work holistically and look deeper than the original diagnosis

Have the freedom and support to act in patients best interests what matters to you

Work with patients, to set personalised goals and individual treatment programmes

Work with patients, their families and the MDT to plan and implement discharge

Clinically supervise other members of the team

Connect with, assess and treat patients who may have diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions

Take a role in the development of the Intermediate Care Service within Somerset

Your professional supervision, includes support from the team leader who is an experienced AHP therapist, working with you in intermediate care. Links with other OTs within the intermediate care service will be supported.

The Occupational Therapy leads and Occupational Therapists across all agencies in Somerset are working together to implement our OT strategy with the aims of better experience for staff, better experience of care, better outcomes and values.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone

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