Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Paignton; Vor Ort; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Generous Holiday Entitlement

Career development and training

Staff Discounts

Employee Support - 24-hour helpline

Day nursery childcare

Zusammenfassung

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in Paignton is recruiting a part-time Occupational Therapist (27 hours per week) for the Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care team. The role involves holistic needs-led assessments and autonomous clinical decision making in community settings.

This Band 6 post requires HCPC registration and a Diploma/Degree in OT, with opportunities to supervise junior staff and develop professional skills within an integrated care environment.

Qualifikationen

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration.
• Experience within NHS/community OT is preferred.
• Ability to travel across the locality.

Aufgaben

• Managing an intensive acute caseload.
• Triage and prioritise work according to urgency.
• Assessment and treatment of patients in community settings, mainly in their own homes.
• Planning, implementing and reviewing OT interventions with a patient-centred approach.
• Autonomously making decisions regarding packages of care and equipment.
• Carrying out home assessment visits to support discharge planning.
• Supervisory responsibilities for junior staff as required.

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

Decision making under pressure

Autonomous practitioner

Teamwork in MDT

Ausbildung

Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registered

Jobbeschreibung

Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Occupational Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 27 hours per week (7 day service including weekends and Bank holidays) Job ref 388-8181228-FC&I-A

Site Kings Ash House Town Paignton Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time Occupational Therapist (27 hours per week) within the urgent care response and intermediate care service in Torbay. T his opportunity allows you to undertake holistic needs-led assessments in partnership with service users, patients and carers.

You will support the management of a team caseload of complex, highly complex and statutory work, and act as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations.

We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, and are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. Your role with us will involve Community therapy and Intermediate care work.

To effectively undertake the role, you will be required to work flexibly to ensure a consistent and robust service, which covers seven day working including weekend and bank holiday work, or working in other localities across the bay as necessary to meet the needs of the service.

You will have the opportunity to explore innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social services and the private and voluntary sector in line with the Care Trust’s integration agenda.

Main duties of the job

• Responsibility for managing an intensive acute caseload.
• Triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establishing presenting risks.
• Assessment and treatment of patients in a variety of community settings, which is mainly the patient’s own home, but could include nursing homes and residential homes.
• Working with a patient centred approach, taking responsibility for planning, implementing and reviewing OT interventions for patients.
• Making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home
• Manual handling assessment and equipment provision, simple and complex equipment and adaptation prescription.
• To carry out home assessment visits with patients from temporary places of safety, thereby contributing to the planning and facilitation of discharge to their own homes as appropriate.
• Supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post, Assistant Practitioner or support worker as required.

Working for our organisation

The Baywide Intermediate Care Team are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients. We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, making a difference and helping patients through their recovery and returning back to health and independence. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance with Opportunity to work autonomously.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay.Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

• Childcare at our day nursery
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Staff Discounts
• Career development and training opportunities
• Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline

Please note: Priority will be given to applicants with recognised 'Priority' or 'At Risk' status, including NHS staff identified across Devon.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
• Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations
• Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings
• Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
• Highly developed communication skills to include negotiation and
  experience of communicating sensitive information e.g. unfavourable assessment outcome

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification

Person specification

Qualifications and training

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
• CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post-graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
• Experience within the NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions
• Experience in the NHS working in a community setting

Knowledge and experience

• Wheelchair Accreditation
• Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment
• Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and social care
• Understanding of National Service Frameworks for Older People, specifically aspects referring to Stroke, Falls and Intermediate Care.
• Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations
• Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision and make autonomous decisions
• Evidence of ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of specialised disability equipment
• Therapeutic and manual handling skills
• Detailed understanding of roles of multidisciplinary team members/health and social care agencies
• Understanding of clinical governance issues
• Clinical leadership skills
• Recruitment and selection training
• Appraisals and supervision training
• Experience of clinical audit.

Specific Skills

• Knowledge of vulnerable adults protocols and procedures
• Elderly care / rehabilitation to include multi-pathology and dementia
• Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
• Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
• Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations.
• Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and proven ability to carry out fast track assessments
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Mental Health conditions
• Community rehabilitation
• Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working.
• Experience of initiating change in the workplace
• Experience of seating and postural management

Requirements due to work environment and / or conditions

• Highly developed communication skills to include negotiation and experience of communicating sensitive information e.g. unfavourable assessment outcomes
• Ability to make decisions under pressure
• Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality.
• Experience of handling complaints

You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.

If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly.
• Please read the job description carefully and tailor your application to reflect the requirements of the role.
• Applicants who identify in their application form they are a part of the Armed Forces community will be guaranteed an interview, provided they meet the minimum essential criteria outlined in the job description and person specification for the role. Step into Health guidance can be found on our NHS Employers website.
• Correspondence will be sent via Trac, text, and email. Please ensure you check your email and Trac account regularly.
• Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band.
• If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
• It is your responsibility to ensure the timely receipt of appropriate references.

The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.