Band 6 Occupational Therapist

2 months ago

Ormskirk, United Kingdom HCRG Care Group Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a thoughtful and proactive Occupational Therapist to play an integral role within our Therapy Services which includes Adult Community Rehabilitation encompassing GP referrals and hospital discharges, Falls Prevention, Intermediate Care, Neurological Rehab and Urgent Rapid Response.

As a Senior Occupational Therapist you will take responsibility, using a case management approach to work with the patient, family, carer, and the patients GP to manage / stabilise the patients delivering a collaborative approach for avoidable hospital admissions.

The aim of our service is to improve independence, health, and wellbeing by supporting people in their home environment and local community. The service provides non- timed limited interventions which are goals led. The purpose of this role is to provide specialist person-centred assessment, rehabilitation, and management for people with various therapy needs including the promotion of health and prevention of secondary complications.

Patients are provided with a service in a variety of settings appropriate to their needs own homes, residential settings, and outpatient clinics across the West Lancashire area. This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder must hold a valid UK driving license and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively.

Main duties of the job

To provide safe, effective, and efficient interventions working with all relevant services (internal and external) to ensure patient/carer needs are met as identified by assessment. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Be responsible for a clinical caseload working within a multidisciplinary team ensuring service users receive optimum level of rehabilitation within available resources. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical, and clinical reasoning skills. To assess for and organise the provision of necessary and appropriate minor adaptations and major adaptations and conduct reviews of provision and safety checks as appropriate. To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines, and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To demonstrate equipment and ensure patients/ clients families, carers and support workers are confident in the safe and correct use of equipment and adaptations at the time of issue.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Membership of My Reward Hub , giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning , bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location The Ideal Candidate

Essential

Hold a recognised professional qualification in Occupational Therapy. Registered with HCPC. Student Clinical Supervisor or willing to undertake training. Able to role model and promote interdisciplinary working, to ensure efficient and person-centered care. Have relevant experience of working closely and effectively in a multidisciplinary team and with other health, social care, and voluntary sector colleagues. Have experience of working with people with a range of conditions, including Orthopaedic, neurological and general long-term conditions and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the long-term impact on individuals and their carers. Experience of frailty and falls prevention. Knowledge of a range of OT models and to have kept up to date with trends and developments in OT and Community Services. Good Understanding of Community OT and equipment provision. Experience of working in a variety of settings including community working. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional, national, and organisational guidelines and standards required for safe and effective service delivery. Demonstrable continuing professional development within the field of Occupational Therapy. Ability to manage own caseload effectively and delegate to rehabilitation assistant appropriately. Demonstrate flexibility and ability to respond to changing service priorities. Have experience of providing clinical supervision, education, and support to staff to identify learning objectives and personal development opportunities. Good levels of IT literacy including good knowledge of service-related systems.

Desirable

Member of a relevant special interest group or network. Experience of working in the NHS. Experience of helping to develop team members and of seeking ways to improve services. Experience and knowledge of professional and management practices within interdisciplinary and community settings. Experience in promoting health and wellbeing, with a focus on empowering patients and their families to gain confidence and competence in managing their condition.

Other requirements:

This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder must hold a valid UK driving license and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively. Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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