Band 5 Occupational Therapist - Community
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust are working together with Adult Social Care across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) in order to deliver our Home First service offer alongside core Community Therapy.
We have an opportunity available for newly qualified occupational therapists, student occupational therapists or developing band 5 occupational therapists to join us.
This is a really exciting time to be joining the service which brings together an integrated health and social care offer delivered by community-based nursing, therapy and adult social care teams and will allow you to use your therapy skills to:
* Support people to remain in their homes when they are having a health or social care crisis, rather than needing to go into hospital or a care home.
* Help people get home from hospital quickly and provide them with rehabilitation and reablement to help restore their health, wellbeing and independence.
* Deliver high quality core therapy reablement, rehabilitation and recovery to people within their own homes.
Community therapy can offer you regular in-service training, support with development of your clinical and leadership skills through training and working alongside dedicated Clinical Specialists and Operational leads as well as course attendance.
We also offer agile working.
For more information about the role/opportunities please contact Alice Collins, Operational Therapy Lead, 07833049262.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for Band 5 Occupational Therapists to provide an effective and efficient therapy service. This post requires a level of personal responsibility for someone highly motivated, resilient and proactive with the ability to prioritise and manage their own allocated caseload, use their initiative and the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
You will demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and be able to adapt to changing and pressurised environments.
You will be working with Physiotherapists and Technical Instructors to carry out comprehensive functional assessments and interventions to help patients live as independently as possible.
The therapy teams operate in an integrated way whereby Therapists are encouraged to work synergistically in order to provide the best possible outcomes for patients. You will be encouraged and supported to grow your skillset, and to challenge the way we do things.
We are looking for determined and self-motivated individuals who can make a difference to the care of patients and to promote therapy services within the trust.
About us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
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Experience
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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