Intermediate Care & Community Therapies Occupational Therapist
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care organisation which aims to provide high quality, safe and effective health and social care. Our vision is a community where we are all supported and empowered to be as well and as independent as possible, able to manage our own health and wellbeing, and in our own homes.
We have a great opportunity available within our Intermediate Care and Community Therapy Team. We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist with experience or a Band 5 Occupational Therapist looking for career progression.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team contributing to joint decisions regarding the management of patients, including acutely ill patients referred by their GP or A&E/ED and triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establishing presenting risks. Working with a patient centred approach, taking responsibility for assessment and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission.
* The Intermediate Care Service facilitates crisis management in the community, prevention of hospital admissions, quicker discharge from hospital and supports people to remain as independent as possible at home. Patients are seen within the most appropriate setting; at home and in intermediate care placements in residential care homes. The team works in a truly integrated way, with nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, pharmacist, dietician and a paramedic.
* The Community Therapy service enables therapists to work autonomously, managing their own caseload. Types of referrals vary, with a chance to practice or develop skills in moving & handling or complex seating assessments, as well as stair lift referrals and other access & environmental solutions.
* You will be well supported by senior staff, as well as by the wider multi-disciplinary team, which will include medical support. There will be opportunities to supervise band 5 Occupational Therapist's, support workers and students. There are excellent CPD training opportunities, including OT peer support groups, training from the South Devon Health Services training and development team, Clinical Interest Groups and peer support.
Our team is based at Sherborne House in Newton Abbot and provides a community service to the residents in the Newton Abbot Locality. The multi-disciplinary Intermediate Care and Community Therapies Team have a hard-working, flexible and can-do approach. The team are supportive and friendly, adapting to the ever changing demands on the service.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anna Knights Job title: Intermediate Care Team Lead Email address: anna.knights@nhs.net Telephone number: 0300 500 40 42
Natalie Madge Occupational therapy clinical lead 0300 500 40 42
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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