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Pay
£39,205 - £47,084 a year
Job type
Permanent
Location
Dartford DA2 8DA
Full job description
The post holder will provide and develop a high standard of Occupational Therapy (OT) services to the Inpatient Occupational Therapy Team, working within the Band 6 OT 9 monthly rotations into Emergency Medicine and Integrated Discharge Team incorporating A&E Majors and Minors and Medical Short Stay Area (Cypress Unit); Stroke Unit; Trauma Orthopaedics and Outpatient Hand Therapy; Medicine (inclusive of Oncology, Gastroenterology, Respiratory, Endocrinology); Elderly Medicine.
The post holder will provide specialist OT assessments, interventions and advice for patients and relatives, using evidence-based client-centred principles. They will work towards both prevention of admission to hospital and facilitation of discharge from hospital; working closely with MDT members and discharge planners and relevant community services.
They will manage, supervise and develop Band 5 OTs, OT assistants, apprentices and students and promote the role of Occupational Therapy within the inter-professional team and ensure that good communication exists within the medical, nursing and other professional staff.
The post holder, in conjunction with the Head OT and Senior OTs, actively monitor and develop the OT service, continuously striving to improve the quality of service. They will maintain a high standard of care and clinical practice through liaison with those working in the team and maintain close working relationships with other senior Occupational Therapists to facilitate integrated and collaborative rehabilitation programmes especially when patients move across professional and organisational boundaries.
The post holder will work to provide care across a 7-day service when on rotation within the integrated discharge team, working with the stroke team and any other team that develops a model of 7-day working.
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