Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham is seeking a Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist to join the Community Team. You will lead home-based assessments and interventions, supporting independence and safe discharge within an integrated MDT.

The post requires HCPC registration, a Degree in Occupational Therapy, and commitment to professional development. The role involves working across community settings with flexible shifts and excellent leadership

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy with HCPC registration.
• Extensive CPD post-registration activity and development.
• Experience in community/ MDT settings is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and promote home-based assessments and interventions.
• Work within an integrated MDT to support patient care and discharge planning.
• Support junior staff and students, driving service development and quality care.
• Ensure safety and effective use of resources in community settings.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Mentoring

IT skills

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

CPD

Tools

Microsoft Office

PowerPoint

Excel

Outlook

Job description

Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist

Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation?

Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK.

Look no further, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Intervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.

Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has delivered in the last 12 months: 77000 fewer acute bed days used, 19000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

LOCATION: for this post will be North (not East)

Main duties of the job

Six health and social care organisations joined forces in the region to deliver this truly integrated service. Alongside BCHC, other partners include Birmingham City Council, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, Birmingham and Solihull CCG and Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, premature admission to long-term residential care and facilitating early hospital discharge, plus the added bonus of Birmingham being a fantastic place to work and live.

A real opportunity to work within the self-motivated and aspirational MDT daily, we are currently looking for someone to dynamically lead and promote a culture of home first rehabilitation, so the people of Birmingham are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes. Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings.

About us

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Job responsibilities

A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.

he post holder will act as a practitioner for Occupational Therapy within the Adults Community Services Division.

The post holder will ensure access to urgent and routine Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention provide and monitor treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral on to alternative services as appropriate. They will work in partnership with patients, carers and other health and social care agencies to promote independence and develop individual plans of care relevant to person needs

A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.

We run an excellent Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career.

HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles.

The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days per week in line with service delivery

Informal enquiries speak to:

Email: [e-mail]

LOCATION: for this post will be North (not East)

Qualifications/Training

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy.
• Current Health and Care Professions Council registration.
• Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.

Experience

• Experience of working in a Multi -Disciplinary team
• Relevant rehabilitation experience for a variety of patients in a community setting
• Experience of working with other agencies.
• Proven Supervisory skills.
• Ability to plan and delegate daily workload
• Ability to demonstrate and share knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical trends and practices within the field of occupational therapy
• Clinical Supervisors / Fieldwork education

Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment and treatment approaches for the patient group.
• Demonstrates a problem solving approach
• IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
• Knowledge and application of clinical effectiveness and evidence based practice
• Understanding and application of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy code of Professional Conduct
• Knowledge and application of Health and Safety issues and their relevance in the Community.
• Ability to administer and interpret standardise assessments/outcome measures.
• Ability to act as mentor/supervisor to junior staff and students on placement.
• Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults.
• Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
• Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum, pro rata