Occupational Therapist Stroke Services

NHS Trust; Redruth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CPD funding

DBS checks provided

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts for retailers

Job summary

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Specialist Occupational Therapist to join a dedicated inpatient community stroke service based in Camborne, Cornwall. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation and support patients from early recovery through discharge planning.

The role involves collaboration with the ICSS and neurorehabilitation teams to ensure access to experienced clinicians, enabling patients

Qualifications

• Current professional registration – HCPC.
• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
• Previous experience of working within specialist stroke rehabilitation.
• Experience in leadership and managing a team.
• Experience of managing complex situations.

Responsibilities

• Be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of your own work and ensure high standards of clinical care.
• Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses across stroke conditions.
• Develop comprehensive discharge plans and recommend best course of intervention.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment of stroke patients using investigative and analytical skills.
• Use a wide range of treatment options and clinical reasoning to tailor care to individual values and culture.

Skills

Stroke rehabilitation

Psychological care post stroke

Visual deficits post stroke

Education

HCPC registration

Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Masters modules

Job description

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

Make a Difference Where It Matters Most, Help Transform Lives After Stroke

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist looking to develop your specialist stroke rehabilitation skills within a dedicated inpatient community stroke service?

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team, the location is a brand new purpose built unit based in Camborne, Cornwall, designed with space and calm in mind to ensure an effective rehabilitation environment is achieved. The unit is modern and airy and has a dedicated fully equipped gym. This team works in collaboration and close pathway working with the onward community stroke rehab service ICSS and specialist stroke and neurorehabilitation team to ensure access to experienced clinicians is achieved. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a specialist ward-based rehabilitation environment, supporting patients following stroke to regain independence, maximise function, and achieve their individual rehabilitation goals.

Working alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation, supporting patients from the early stages of recovery through to discharge planning and transition back into the community.

Main duties of the job

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.
• To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of stroke conditions independently, and for complex conditions.
• To recommend the best course of intervention and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.
• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of stroke patients, using investigative and analytical skills.
• To use clinical reasoning and utilise a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate management and treatment programmes of care that are sensitive to individual values, cultural and religious diversity.

The Occupational therapy team consists of peers, band 5 and rehabilitation support workers and is clinically lead by a band 7 Occupational therapy clinical lead whom works across both the community stroke units ( Bodmin and Camborne) .

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

• Current professional registration – HCPC
• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Previous experience of working within specialist stroke rehabilitation
• Experience in leadership and managing a team
• Experience of managing complex situations
• Masters Modules

Skills and Aptitude

• Highly specialist skills in stroke rehabilitation approaches and therapy
• Highly specialist skills in psychological care post stroke
• Specialist skills in the assessment, treatment and management of visual deficits post stroke

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

• Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

• Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

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.

Name Susan Greenwood Job title Modern Matron Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07825754153 Additional information

Margaret Kirkland Lead Therapist Rosewarne Stroke Rehabilitation Unit

01209 318 016

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