A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic developing team and be at the cutting edge of delivering acute care to patients in their own home.
The Community Response Service team facilitates early discharges from hospital, who otherwise would have stayed in hospital due to therapy needs, and provide rehab for up to 2 weeks to meet the short-term goals for them to be able to remain at home. They work with the virtual ward teams and other teams within Community Response Service to provide assessments to those who are at risk of hospital admission.
You will be part of a large multidisciplinary team and have opportunities to work individually and with Physiotherapists, Nurse Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Pharmacists and other Associate Therapy Practitioners.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
The successful applicant will begin as an Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor and will work with the therapists within the team to achieve the competencies required to progress to the Band 4 role, within an expected 6-9month period.
• To work within the Homesafe and Care Point Teams to supporting the Discharge & Intermediate Care Services across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
• To work under the direct and indirect supervision of a qualified member of staff to implement treatment programmes for individual patients.
• To carry out basic assessment and treatment of non-complex patients as delegated by the registered therapists or nursing staff within the team.
• To assist registered therapists or nursing staff within the team in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
• To undertake specific skilled support work to aid the therapy teams in the efficient delivery of rehabilitation to specialty area within the framework of clinical governance.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
• To manage a patient caseload referred by the registered therapists or nursing staff within the team according to specific criteria.
• To treat patients according to set protocols, monitoring patient progress, modifying and progressing patient programs as required, with referral back to MDT as/when appropriate.
• Implements and modify and upgrade treatment programmes and work independently within defined parameters.
• To undertake complex/non-complex walking aid assessments.
• Identify any changes in patient’s conditions and be aware of the need to summon assistance when appropriate.
• To assist colleagues in facilitating a multi-disciplinary discharge planning process.
• To demonstrate time management skills by day-to-day planning, organising, and completing all clinical and administrative duties including statistical record keeping.
• To be responsible for administrative duties as required and delegated, including the extraction of relevant information from patients’ medical records for use within patients’ records.
• Recording patient treatment in an accurate and timely manner in accordance with trust standards.
• To work to the standards of individual clinical areas and to ensure the background knowledge is acquired through independent learning and collaboration with senior staff.
• To arrange patient appointments & ambulance bookings as appropriate.
• To participate and support a 7day service covering hours of 8-8.
• Assembles and dismantles equipment loaned out to clients.
• To participate in the in-service training programmes and continuing professional development activities as deemed appropriate by the team lead.
• To be flexible to the needs of service delivery and provide care across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
This advert closes on Monday 17 Mar 2025
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