Senior Community OT (Rapid Response)

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Hart; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks a motivated Occupational Therapist to deliver expert rehabilitation services within an evolving environment. The role includes case management of patients, collaborative work with multidisciplinary teams, and opportunities for professional development, including potential Masters modules. Candidates must possess a degree in Occupational Therapy and relevant experience in physical health settings.

Benefits

CPD opportunities including Masters module

Supportive work environment with management supervision

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy required.
• HCPC registered Occupational Therapist essential.
• Relevant post-registration experience in a physical health setting is key.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic OT assessment and individual treatment programs.
• Manage a varied caseload and ensure timely service provision.
• Work closely with interdisciplinary teams for effective care.

Skills

Assessment

Rehabilitation

Time Management

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC Registration

Job description

Job Overview

Enhanced Recovery and Support at Home (ERS) delivers a rapid response service (1–2-day response) to patients either at risk of admission to hospital or on discharge from hospital.

You will be providing functional rehab to patients, supported by the team's MDT including Nurses and Physios as well as a large Rehab Support Worker team and Associate Practitioners. We have recently undertaken skills mix review in the service and increased our non-registered workforce to support appropriate delegation to APs, enabling more specialist assessment, treatment and rehab provision to be delivered directly by our OTs.

You will be highly motivated and enjoy working at pace in a constantly evolving environment. In return you will receive direct line management and supervision from one of our two B7 OT Leads, who work in partnership with our PT and RN Leads. You will be supported with ongoing CPD opportunities including the option to complete your Masters module in Frailty, as an example. We work closely with our community rehab therapists in terms of support, expertise, IST etc.

We are a seven-day service so you will be rostered occasional weekends. We also operate 8am-9pm, although usually our OT shifts are either 8am-4pm or 10am-6pm.

It is essential you have a vehicle you can use for work purposes as we cover a large geographical area: all travel time and expense are paid in this role.

We are unfortunately unable to support Visa sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

• Case management, providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions living in the community who are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission to secondary care.
• Holistic OT assessment, clinical diagnosis, and individualised treatment plans for patients on the caseload, who may have complex and/or chronic presentations and diagnoses, with varied rehabilitation potential, including palliative patients.
• Inter-disciplinary working within the service, providing an effective, high-quality day to day service provision
• To work with senior staff to develop a comprehensive service in partnership with Integrated Care Teams and all relevant stakeholders
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide holistic OT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning and delivery.
• Regular review and discharge of patients.
• To manage a varied caseload, seeking support from senior staff where necessary to ensure the provision of a timely, clinically effective service based on evidence based practice.
• To provide services to support discharge of patients from acute hospital and to provide an admission avoidance service for patients in crisis within community settings.
• To undertake in-reach to acute and community settings.
• To be actively involved in, and lead on, projects towards the development & delivery of the service and to contribute to new developments and initiatives.
• To provide standardised cognitive assessments and treatment programmes as required.
• To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes.
• To educate and provide necessary interventions around management of anxiety and fatigue.
• To provide comprehensive manual handling care plans in a timely manner to ensure the effective and safe delivery of care plans.
• To identify, assess and manage risk.
• To triage new referrals, manage handovers and allocate work accordingly.
• To contribute to interdisciplinary working by teaching and education of professional skills & techniques as defined by an agreed competency framework, both personally and for other staff and students.
• Where appropriate to take responsibility for the application of new skills to rehabilitation programmes.
• To provide line management and supervision to junior staff and practice placement students as appropriate.
• To maintain excellent clinical practice through the CPD process, and taking part in relevant research, audit and development activity as directed.
• To work closely and jointly at times with Physiotherapy and Nursing colleagues to ensure a holistic and effective care plan is provided to the patient.
• To be responsible for the day-to-day management and prioritisation of your caseload and be able to respond to urgent referrals and an unpredictable workload. This could require prolonged concentration in an unpredictable environment.
• To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner when imparting bad news regarding rehabilitation potential. To ensure this is communicated sensitively to all parties concerned.
• To keep yourself well at work both physically and emotionally, to access peer, clinical and management support when needed and to be aware of own limitations and escalate accordingly.
• To report risks and harm to patients using the Trust reporting system.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC registered OT
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Clinical educators training
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant post registration experience
• Experience within a physical health setting
• Experience of devising rehab treatment programmes
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Managerial/supervisory experience and/or training
• Community experience
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate the rehabilitation needs of client groups and progress to effective outcomes
• Excellent time management
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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