Would you like a job where you make a difference every day and are part of services where you feel supported and valued? Would you like to be part of a dynamic team who rehabilitate and enable individuals to be as independent as possible? Look no further. We are developing our services and expanding our team of Occupational Therapists. You will be at the forefront of developing quality services, and you will be key to shaping and redesigning how we deliver our innovative services to patients across the acute and community pathways.
Join our supportive and inclusive inter-professional teams, who value the essential role of an Occupational Therapist in Community settings.
We have an opportunity for:
• Band 5 Occupational Therapist or Occupational Therapists looking to return to the profession (Return to practice)
You need to have a desire to rotate within the Community Intermediate Care Services developing your skills in assessment and treatment planning, supporting the rehabilitation and re-settlement of patients who have multiple long-term conditions.
You will work alongside other experienced Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, Nurses, Assistant Practitioners, Social Workers, Dietitians, Speech and Language Therapists, and Reablement Support staff to deliver intervention in a variety of settings including:
1. Home Based Rehabilitation
2. Discharge to Assess Unit
3. Motor Disorders and Vestibular Services
We value your career development; you will have a mentor, a personal development plan, opportunities to shadow, and regular supervision whilst working towards your band 5 competencies or your return to practice framework. Through our Improving Together methodology, our staff can drive their continuous improvement ideas forward to completion and have the autonomy to implement change.
If you would like to find out more information about these roles or wish to arrange to visit, please get in touch with Lynn Morrison at lynn.morrison8@nhs.net, Ruth Bailey at ruth.bailey2@nhs.net or telephone the team at 01793 607710.
Main Responsibility
1. To communicate with other multi-disciplinary team members, families, carers, and external agencies concerned with the management of the patient.
2. Participate in the Band 5 Rotation Scheme.
3. To develop skills and knowledge through the competency framework and participate in continuous professional development, in-service training, and any other developmental activities.
4. To screen and prioritise referrals within an assigned caseload, following service standards and referring to other agencies where necessary.
5. To undertake standardised and non-standardised basic Occupational Therapy assessments and analyse in the context of the patient’s daily activities, for a designated caseload following department standards and protocols.
6. To assess the need for and to carry out assessment of the home environment making recommendations and referral for adaptations or equipment provision i.e. an access assessment without patient or a home assessment with patient.
7. To assess the need for and carry out functional assessments within hospital, home, or community setting. This may involve therapists working in cramped, uncomfortable, unpleasant surroundings, which require constant risk assessment.
8. To assimilate and use information and assessments provided by other professionals.
9. To be aware of own limitations in clinical experience and utilize the expertise of senior staff and other agencies involved in patient care.
10. To devise Occupational Therapy treatment plans and goals in collaboration with the patient, relatives, their carers, and the Multidisciplinary Team and Interdisciplinary Team.
For the full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
1. Diploma /Degree: Occupational Therapy
2. Registered with Health Profession council
3. Application of OT process.
4. Use of functional assessment and activity analysis.
5. Broad clinical experience (placement level or post graduate).
6. Use of basic outcome measures.
7. Evidence of Continuing professional development e.g. a Portfolio.
8. Awareness of current best practice.
9. Apply professional ethics to practice.
10. Basic clinical reasoning skills.
11. Up to date clinical knowledge.
12. Basic understanding of health legislation.
13. Basic understanding of Clinical Governance.
14. Health & Safety and Risk assessment awareness.
15. Good personal organisational skills e.g. time management.
16. Ability to work independently with individuals or groups.
17. Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
18. Good communication skills, verbal and written.
19. Understanding of client-centred non-discriminatory practice.
20. Ability to access research evidence to support best practice.
Package Description
You will feel valued as an Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with Agenda for Change terms and conditions and NHS pension
* Free tea and coffee at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 as 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
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's 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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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* Job Category HCRG - Allied Health Professionals
* Business Unit HCRG - Wiltshire
* Location Great Western Hospital, Swindon, United Kingdom
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