Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health trust in Greater London seeks a highly specialist Occupational Therapist to join their Discharge to Assess and intermediate care team. This full-time role involves providing expert occupational therapy care within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on community patient needs post-discharge from hospital. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience, thrive in a dynamic environment, and possess strong clinical skills. This is an exciting opportunity for those looking to progress their career in a supportive team.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction

Flexible working options

Training, support, and development

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in occupational therapy required.
• Registered with the Health Care Professions Council.
• 4 years post-graduate experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist occupational therapy care to community-based caseload.
• Work as a highly skilled senior practitioner to develop the service.
• Conduct robust triage of patients referred to the team.

Skills

Advanced assessment and treatment skills

Understanding of complex medical conditions

Experience in community work

Ability to supervise and teach

Education

Degree or diploma in occupational therapy

Registered with the Health Care Professions Council

Leadership and management training

Tools

EMIS clinical system

Job description

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist, Discharge to Assess and intermediate care team, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) - Wandsworth. Fulltime

Are you a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist looking for an exciting, new challenge and a chance to take on greater responsibilities?

We are looking for a highly specialist, dynamic and motivated Occupational Therapist with excellent clinical skills and a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic community-based care. The person will join our group of AHP staff in a permanent role and supporting an MDT community therapy service.

Discharge to assess (D2A) and the intermediate care team is a 7 day a week community therapy/care assessment and rehabilitation team in Wandsworth. It provides therapy services to specific types of patients upon discharge from hospital and in the community. These patients are often more urgent and/or complex. The team supports the patient to ensure readmission is avoided. This involves risk management, disability management and rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

The team sees a wide variety of conditions/pathologies and provides therapy in a holistic way using a wide variety of knowledge and skills. The team consists of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, rehabilitation assistants and health care assistants in a multidisciplinary team.Main duties will include;

• Experience of working within an intermediate care team
• Work as a highly skilled senior practitioner with expert knowledge and work alongside clinical lead to develop the service
• Providing highly specialist occupational therapy care to a community based caseload.
• Carrying out robust triage of patients referred to the team to ensure their safety and optimal pathway allocation
• Ability to provide leadership within the occupational therapy and wider team.
• Experience of line management and supervising others. Supporting and deputising for the Clinical Lead and Operational manager of the service
• Opportunities to take the lead on service improvement opportunities, develop your managerial skills and suggest and lead on audit and research projects and other teams in the intermediate care team
• Highly motivated, passionate and enthusiastic team player with a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic care and evidence based interventions.

About us

Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up)
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Job responsibilities

** Please refer to the job description, person specification and CLCH trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in occupational therapy
• Registered with the Health Care Professions Council
• Up to date relevant knowledge through CPD as evidenced by portfolio
• Hold relevant right to work in the UK documentation
• Membership of Royal College of Occupational Therapy and / or relevant special interest groups
• Attendance at Clinical Educator Course
• Leadership and management training

Experience

• oPrevious NHS experience
• oA clear understanding of current NHS issues, professional standards, CPD, clinical governance and experience of audit
• oAppropriate post-qualifying experience in a range of areas acute care of the elderly, neurology and community
• oAppreciation of constraints to working in the community
• oAbility to assess patient conditions, establish the patients problem, formulate and implement and treatment plan
• Has sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other legislation
• Experience of MDT working and understand their roles
• Experience of supervising juniors/assistant/students
• Experience in research / literature reviews
• Clinical Teaching
• Experience in community work
• Post registration experience at band 6 level in a wide range of clinical areas including elderly rehabilitation, community rehabilitation, falls management, dementia care, respiratory care and orthopaedics
• Experience in quality improvement and service evaluation.
• Using EMIS clinical system
• Previous community experience within rehab
• 4 years post graduate experience
• Experience in teaching and training
• Experience of line managing / Supervision of staff
• Experience of using an electronic clinical records system

Skills

• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with complex multi-pathologies
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions and their relation to people who fall
• Ability to apply core OT skills across a range of clinical conditions within a patient centred, goal setting approachKnowledge and understanding of National and local frameworks and guidelines for older people.
• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

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.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearper annum, inclusive of HCAS