Community Occupational Therapist - Upper Lea Valley ICT

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust; Hoddesdon; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust in Hoddesdon is seeking an Occupational Therapist to join our Community Therapy Team on a fixed-term basis. You will deliver rehabilitation and palliative care, including hospital-at-home/therapy support, to residents in their own homes and care settings.

You will work as part of the Integrated Community Team to prevent unnecessary admissions and provide holistic assessment, treatment and rehabilitation, supporting patients to achieve greater independence.

Job description

We are looking for a dynamic and patient focused Occupational Therapist to join our Community Therapy Team in Hoddesdon on a fixed term basis.

You will work alongside your community colleagues to provide rehabilitation, palliative care, hospital at home/unplanned therapy support, to the residents of Hertfordshire in their own homes, residential and nursing homes.

The team is friendly, supportive and works collaboratively to optimise patients’ level of independence and find innovative ways to enable them to increase their functional performance.

You will work as part of the Integrated Community Team (ICT) pathways to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and to provide therapeutic holistic assessment, support, treatment and rehabilitation of patients in their own home. We are developing closer working relationships with the Primary care networks with their frailty pathways and with other statutory services.

You will provide specialist occupational therapy intervention for your patients and able to delegate and support the OT skills of our therapy technicians

You will be able to manage a clinical caseload and to support patients with goal setting and supporting their functional performance through activity

You will ensure that there is effective patient flow through the service

You will support the rest of the therapy and nursing teams with your experience in equipment provision, effective therapeutic moving and handling, cognitive assessments and OT interventions/therapy programmes

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities

Our staff are proud to be Caring, Pioneering and Inclusive in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you