Job summary
The Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) aspires to provide a responsive, safe effective and caring service that is well led. The service aims include urgent case management and recovery support, self-management and adoption of a coproduced approach with patients. UCR, whilst operating from local hubs in Winchester and Andover, delivers a joined up approach across a specific locality, to deliver excellence in care and engage with all GP practices, community teams and wider stakeholders in the locality.
The specialist occupational therapist is an exciting role delivering care to people at risk of hospital admission in their own homes, and will also include working on the award-winning collaborative Falls Car delivered in partnership with South Central Ambulance Service.
The service runs 0800 to 2000 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Flexible working patterns are considered. This role has a requirement to complete one 0800 to1800 shift per week alongside a SCAS Specialist Paramedic operating the Falls Car from their Basingstoke Hub. There are also opportunities for inreach into local acute Trusts via existing partnerships
Main duties of the job
To work closely with the Consultant Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), the Allied Health Professional Lead, Team Lead and the wider nursing and therapy staff, as well as GPs to provide fast reactive services for patients with exacerbation of long term conditions and/or frailty, ensure rapid delivery of treatment, care planning and admission avoidance where appropriate
To provide assessment and care planning including history taking, physical assessment and treatment planning, without direct supervision.
To work closely with the Allied Health Professional Lead, Team Lead, Consultant Practitioners, ACPs, GPs and patients, to proactively identify and manage patients with acute health needs and to support them and their carers. To delegate appropriate tasks to nursing and therapy colleagues, Associate Practitioners and Health Care Support Workers and offer clinical supervision to support them in their role.
For full details see additional documentation
About us
Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.
With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.
We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.
The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.
Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
See attached document for full person specification and role purpose
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Qualified Occupational Therapist HCPC registration
Desirable
2. Post graduate qualification
3. Management/Leadership Qualification/development programme
4. Level 6 or 7 Deteriorating Patient Course and/or History Taking and Physical Assessment
Experience
Essential
5. Relevant post registration experience in a variety of areas
6. Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex patients
7. Evidence of innovative practice
8. Participates in regular clinical supervision
9. Experience of working with long term conditions and frailty
10. Experience of mentoring students and unregistered
Desirable
11. Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit/research relating to clinical practice
12. Involved in the implementation and management of change
Additional Criteria
Essential
13. Car driver with valid UK licence and access to a car for work purposes