Occupational Therapist - Intermediate Care

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust; Ilford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join a large multidisciplinary community team. You will manage your own caseload of community patients and contribute to a programme of rehabilitation in the home setting, supporting early discharges from inpatient care.

Working within this trusted NHS foundation, you will collaborate with physiotherapists, nurses and rehab assistants to deliver person-centred care in patients' own environments, ensuring

Responsibilities

• Manage your own caseload of community patients.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and rehab assistants.
• Provide rehabilitation in the community to support early facilitated discharges from hospital.

Skills

Caseload management

Community rehabilitation

Job description

The IRS is a large multidisciplinary London based community team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses and Rehab Assistants. We offer physical rehabilitation as an alternative to hospital bed-based rehabilitation, supporting patients to recover at home within their own environment. We work closely with the Inpatient Rehabilitation Services and acute partners to enable early facilitated discharges whilst supporting patients through an intensive rehabilitation programme in the community. As a Band 5 Occupational Therapist within the team, you will manage your own caseload of community patients.

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.