Specialist Occupational Therapist : Community Rehab/ Enablement / IMC

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Skipton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Skipton is seeking a Specialist Occupational Therapist to join their Community Rehab Team. The role focuses on enabling Home First discharges and providing rehabilitation services. Candidates should be motivated and capable of working within multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality patient care in community settings.

Qualifications

• Motivated and passionate about community rehabilitation.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in providing clinical support and patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support and interventions to enable Home First discharges.
• Conduct assessments and deliver rehabilitation in patients' homes.
• Lead in specialist assessments and treatment for complex cases.

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a motivated and passionate Specialist Occupational Therapist to come and join our well established Community Rehab Team.

The Specialist Occupational Therapist for Enablement and IMC will work across community settings, predominantly within the Craven Area, but also supporting the wider Community Rehab Team as required.

Responsibilities

• The Specialist Occupational Therapist for Enablement and IMC will work across community settings, predominantly within the Craven Area, but also supporting the wider Community Rehab Team as required.
• Providing clinical support and interventions, along with existing team members, to enable Home First discharges from Hospital Settings and provide Rehab services in Craven Intermediate care beds.
• The community rehab team provides specialist assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in intermediate care beds and in patients own homes.
• This role is key in facilitating safe and timely hospital discharges local hospitals, in conjunction with Craven Enablement services as well as ensuring IMC beds are used to best effect and are supported to ensure best use of resource, To undertake a supporting role to the Team Leader managing, planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating therapy plans as part of this broad MDT.
• To provide assessment, treatment and rehabilitation in the home and IMC beds.
• To act as a source of specialist knowledge and provide an advisory service to other ANHSFT therapists and members of the MDT in the management of Community Rehab patients.
• To lead in the specialist assessment and treatment of patients within community who may have complex and chronic presentations and determine clinical diagnosis and any therapy treatment indicated and to maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
• To provide specialist training and education for all grades of staff and other health professionals in the therapeutic management of community rehab patients.

About the service and culture

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviors of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.