Specialist Community Occupational Therapist

NHS; Warwick; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Warwick is looking for a band 7 Occupational Therapist to join their patient-centred, effective multi-disciplinary team. The role involves treating patients with multiple sclerosis and requires significant community rehabilitation experience. Candidates should possess advanced skills in assessment and treatment, good communication abilities, and a willingness to work flexibly. The organization promotes a supportive environment aimed at enhancing patient care and improving quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must have substantial postregistration experience at a band 6 level.
• Experience in community rehabilitation and long-term conditions is essential.
• Knowledge of recent Government NHS directives is required.

Responsibilities

• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings and case discussions.
• Ensure patients are engaged in their treatment with goal setting.
• Lead the implementation of clinical learning environments.

Skills

Advanced skills in assessment and treatment

Advanced knowledge of NSF for Long Term Conditions

Advanced understanding of community rehabilitation process

Effective negotiation skills

IT skills - Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook

Ability to deal with distressing circumstances

Advanced communication skills

Education

Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy

State Registration with Health Professions Council

Job description

Job summary

A rare opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, patient-centred, effective multi-disciplinary team as a band 7 Occupational Therapist.

The team treat patients in the community with a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, supporting them to live full and active lives.

Are you flexible and happy to work in a small Team?

Do you have knowledge and experience of community based neurological, long-term conditions?

We are looking for someone with an empathic approach who can think outside the box in supporting patients to find safe, functional solutions. This is a community role so a car driver with access to your own car is essential.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have 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'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

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Job description

Responsibilities

• Professional and clinical responsibilities: Attend multi-disciplinary meetings, case meetings and family meetings.
• Motivate others through advanced communication skills and gain cooperation for treatment where significant barriers to understanding such as cognitive deficits.
• Communicate information related to complex conditions from assessment to treatment.
• Provide clinical teaching to members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure patients are actively engaged in their treatment through goal setting and individualised treatments.
• Use evidence based practice and outcome measures to evaluate therapy effectiveness.
• Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions through comprehensive specialist therapy assessments and coordination of care.
• Lead and implement clinical learning environment and provide leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Implement safe, efficient, and effective clinical pathways and promote patient safety through central alert systems and root cause analysis.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures to support service provision.
• Manage care of patients to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support community rehabilitation.

Qualifications

• Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy.
• State Registration with Health Professions Council.
• Health Needs Assessment.

Experience

• Substantial postregistration experience, equivalent to master's level, with significant experience at a band 6 senior level.
• Recent post registration experience working at a senior level in community rehabilitation and longterm conditions.
• Rotations at both band 5 and band 6 level in a wide range of clinical areas in both inpatient and community settings including elderly care, neuro rehabilitation, musculoskeletal, falls and orthopaedics.
• Experience of working with people with complex needs.
• Experience of coordinating and delivering care for people with complex, long term conditions.

Skills

• Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with neurological, respiratory, orthopaedics conditions and complex multi pathologies.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of the NSF for Long Term Conditions, Falls and other relevant NICE guidelines.
• Advanced understanding of the community rehabilitation process.
• Ability to apply core occupational therapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centred, goal setting approach.
• Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence based practice associated with community rehabilitation.
• Advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving.
• Knowledge of current health care policy and relevance to delivery of healthcare services.
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to clinical practice.
• Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution.
• Effective negotiation skills.
• Advanced communication and report writing skills in both verbal and written format.
• IT skills - Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Able to identify learning and development needs and actively seek ways to meet those needs.
• Knowledge of NICE and COT Fallers Guidelines.
• Knowledge of role of Social Services and voluntary agencies.
• Knowledge of recent Government NHS directives.
• High levels of precision for manual treatment of patients.

Personal Qualities

• Build effective working relationships within multidisciplinary team and with other professionals.
• Willingness to work flexibly to meet service needs.
• Willingness to assist in change.

Other Essential

• Independent means of travel.
• Ability to deal with distressing & emotional circumstances on a frequent basis.
• Ability to impart unwelcome news regarding prognosis and treatment.
• Ability to concentrate & work with frequent interruption.
• Able to support and manoeuvre patients at regular intervals.

Desirable

• Commitment to lifelong learning.
• Presentation and training skills.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.