Occupational Therapist

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC is developing an Integrated Community Stroke Service in Great Yarmouth, delivering multidisciplinary rehabilitation in the community to support earlier discharge from hospital and improved outcomes. You will join at a key development stage with opportunities to shape how care is delivered and to contribute to an integrated model.

You will assess and treat stroke patients, including those with complex or chronic presentations, within an MDT and across

Qualifications

• OT delivering assessment and treatment of stroke patients.
• Collaborating with other services to support the stroke pathway.
• Teaching and supervision of team members and students.
• Involvement in evaluating and developing the Integrated Community Stroke Service.
• Working as part of an integrated Stroke MDT with telerehab sessions.

Responsibilities

• Promote recovery and well‑being, empowering patients to self‑manage and maximise independence.
• Deliver Occupational Therapy in the assessment and treatment of stroke patients, including complex/chronic cases.
• Collaborate with other services to support the stroke pathway.
• Assist with teaching and supervision of other team members and students.
• Evaluate the service and contribute to ongoing development of stroke delivery.
• Work in an integrated MDT, combining face‑to‑face and telerehab sessions; devise therapy programmes.

Job description

We are developing an Integrated Community Stroke Service (ICSS) within Great Yarmouth & Waveney, bringing together community stroke pathways into a more coordinated, responsive and patient-centred model of care. As part of the wider left shift ambition, this service will support earlier discharge from hospital and improve outcomes through timely, multidisciplinary rehabilitation in the community. Our Year 1 focus is on building a more responsive and integrated local service, increased MDT capacity and improved continuity of care across the stroke pathway. You will be joining a service at a key point of development, with the opportunity to shape how care is delivered and contribute to a more integrated, forward‑thinking model of community stroke rehabilitation.

Your duties will include:

• To promote recovery and well-being, whilst empowering patients to self‑manage and maximise their independence using health coaching techniques and meaningful activity.
• To be responsible for delivering Occupational Therapy in the assessment and treatment of stroke patients, some of which may have complex and/or chronic presentation.
• To collaborate with other services to support the stroke pathway.
• To assist with teaching and supervision of other team members and students.
• To assist evaluation of the Integrated Community Stroke Service and to be actively involved with service development within the speciality and to implement changes in stroke services delivery as required.
• To work as part of an integrated Stroke MDT, following evidence based practice. This will include a combination of face-to-face and telerehab sessions, devising therapy programmes carried out by yourself or an Assistant Practitioner, writing self management plans for patients and signposting to community-based communication and support groups (such as those provided by voluntary organisations).

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders. We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future. At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.