Senior Community Occupational Therapist

Sirona care & health CIC; West of England; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health provider is seeking a Senior Occupational Therapist in South Gloucestershire. The role involves managing a caseload, delivering community-based therapy, and developing leadership skills within a supportive team. You will collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance patient independence. Candidates must have an Occupational Therapy degree and HCPC registration, with relevant community experience being beneficial.

Benefits

NHS benefits

27+ days annual leave

Participation in NHS Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning.
• Experience within a community setting is essential.
• Ability to manage caseload effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage own caseload and service delivery.
• Develop relationships with healthcare teams.
• Lead and supervise junior staff and students.

Skills

Team leadership

Clinical reasoning

Autonomy

Supervision

Time management

Community experience

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Job description

Interested in working in the community or further developing your skills, but wondering whether to take the leap? Come and join our supportive and experienced team.

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic a highly motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to work within our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) in South Gloucestershire.

If you are passionate about delivering exceptional community-based therapy, improving quality of life for service-users and committed to rehabilitation in a home environment, we would love to hear from you!

In return, we will be fully committed to supporting your continued development. We will give you the opportunity to develop specialist community skills and enhance your multidisciplinary and partnership working as well as your ability to support/supervise other team members and develop key leadership skills.

The INTs are an innovative and dynamic service. We provide active rehabilitation to patients in their place of residence to maximise their functional potential and support them to remain independent within their homes. Our therapists support hospital discharges, admission avoidance and long term self-management, enabling patients to live better lives in their home environment.

You will be working within a friendly and supportive INT alongside other healthcare professionals, Support Workers and Administrators.

We offer a flexible service which covers extended hours operating 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for proactive service and own caseload management
• Responsible for triage, capacity management, allocation of work and efficient service / team coordination on a roster basis.
• Lead by example and be a role model for the team
• Develop and maintain strong, communicative working relationships with hospital staff, primary care, service providers and multi-disciplinary teams within health and social care.
• To use occupational therapy skills and techniques in functional and standardised assessment & interventions as an autonomous practitioner
• To develop additional competencies within the requirements of the multi-disciplinary approach to the INT
• Take responsibility for the development of other members of the INT including peers, junior staff, and students whilst assisting other junior staff to organise, prioritise and manage their caseload.
• Work collaboratively with the INT Manager to:-
• Support team performance in key identified areas including frailty and the assessment and management of high risk patients
• Maintain a culture of learning (from incidents, including root cause analysis, patient feedback, complaints and clinical audit)
• Work within your scope of practice
• Identify risks and act accordingly to minimise risk to self, service users and colleagues in line with Organisational policy and procedures
• With the support of senior colleagues, identify and work towards specific objectives and to actively participate in service development projects and audit as required.

About us

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas. It's time to turn your dream into reality!

We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme - just a glimpse of the benefits we offer.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different - we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find as an attachment on this vacancy.

Job responsibilities

See attached full job description and person specification for a full range of duties and responsibilities associated with this position.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development and commitment to lifelong learning.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Explain how you have effectively led a team with senior support when required.
• Explain how you've made clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions.
• Explain how you're able to work autonomously, with the ability to know when to seek appropriate advice / guidance from senior staff.
• Experience of supervising staff and students of own profession.
• Effective time management and caseload management.
• Recent relevant experience within the community setting.
• Working with a range of professionals in health or social care.

Application Reason

• Please tell us why you have chosen to apply for this role with Sirona care & health?

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum, pro rata