Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Radford Semele; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a motivated professional to join its team. The role includes managing complex patient needs and delivering tailored therapeutic interventions in community settings. Candidates should possess knowledge of neurological conditions, exhibit an empathic approach to patient care, and be car drivers. The Trust encourages diversity and aims to provide high-quality care within its community. Join us to contribute to outstanding healthcare delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in community-based services is preferred.
• Applicants must be car drivers with access to their own vehicle.
• Flexibility to work in a small team is required.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for professional standards in patient care.
• Manage complex patients to prevent hospital admissions.
• Develop high-quality service through evidence-based practice.
• Gain valid consent for treatments and share information appropriately.
• Provide tailored treatments and prescribe equipment.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team for patient care.

Skills

Knowledge of community-based neurological and long-term conditions

Empathic approach

Ability to think outside the box

Teamwork

Job description

Responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and to ensure that work meets professional standards and clinical guidelines.
• The post holder manages complex patients who require specific Therapy care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Following the principles of Governance, to develop and maintain a high‑quality service through recognised professional standards, evidence‑based practice and an effective clinical audit programme.
• To be responsible for gaining valid, informed consent for assessment and treatment interventions, and for sharing information following legal and professional guidelines.
• To establish impairments and disabilities where conflicting evidence is present following assessments.
• Following specialist assessment, to use advanced clinical reasoning, analysis, assessment and re‑assessment skills, and to use a client‑centred approach to provide individual treatments and programmes. These may include manual treatment techniques, patient education, neuro‑specific facilitatory techniques and the use of specific equipment.
• To prescribe equipment and educate staff, patients, and their families in the safe use of this equipment in order to maximise client independence and safety.
• To work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide a comprehensive, seamless service aiming to improve and maintain the functional ability of patients while preventing hospital admission.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of community‑based neurological and long‑term conditions.
• Empathic approach who can think outside the box in supporting patients to find safe, functional solutions.
• Community role requiring a car driver with access to your own car.
• Flexible and happy to work in a small team.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford‑Upon‑Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston‑on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below.

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2