Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Torquay; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Childcare

Holiday Entitlement

Staff Discounts

Training Opportunities

24-hour Support

Job summary

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a part-time Occupational Therapist to support urgent care response and intermediate care, performing holistic needs-led assessments in partnership with service users and carers, predominantly in patients’ homes.

The role involves managing a team caseload, autonomous decision making, and supporting discharge planning, with seven-day service including weekends across Torbay and local bays.

Qualifications

• Holistic needs-led assessments in community settings.
• Autonomous practice with high problem solving and clinical reasoning.
• Flexibility for seven-day service including weekends and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Manage an intensive acute caseload.
• Triage and prioritise urgent cases; assess and treat in home/community settings.
• Plan, implement and review OT interventions; equipment provision and home adaptations.
• Discharge planning and home visits to facilitate safe return home.
• Provide supervision for Band 5 post, Assistant Practitioner or support worker as required.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time Occupational Therapist within the urgent care response and intermediate care service in Torbay. This 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 therefore, your role with us will involve Community therapy and Intermediate care work. There is a division between these areas of 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.

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.

The post is currently 22.5 hours however there may be opportunity to increase these hours in the future.

• Responsibility for managing an intensive actue 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 incluse nursing homes and residential homes.
• Working with a patient centred approach, taking responsibility for planning , implementing and reviewing OT interventions for patients and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission. Interventions include 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.

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.

Benefits

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:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• 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

Why work with us

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

Working days Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8.30 - 18.00