Specialist Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist

CORNWALL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Liskeard; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health provider in Liskeard is seeking an Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist to join their Integrated Community Stroke Service. The role focuses on delivering specialist stroke rehabilitation, conducting assessments, and supporting patients within their homes. You will play a vital role in ensuring safe hospital discharges, managing complications, and providing education to patients and their carers about self-management. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on patient recovery in a beautiful part of the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in stroke rehabilitation is essential.
• Strong assessment skills to identify patient needs.
• Ability to educate patients and their families on self-management.

Responsibilities

• Support safe discharges and provide rehabilitation to patients.
• Deliver effective treatments and set individualised goals.
• Educate and support informal carers.

Skills

Stroke rehabilitation

Patient assessment

Education and support to carers

Self-management promotion

Complications management

Job description

Overview

We are excited to offer an opportunity to join the Integrated Community Stroke Service, working as an Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist delivering specialist stroke rehabilitation. The role involves completing comprehensive assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions and supporting patients to work towards individualised rehabilitation goals, primarily within their own homes or place of residence. You will play a key role in supporting timely and safe discharges from hospital, identifying and managing stroke-related complications early, and helping to reduce avoidable readmissions. The post also involves providing education and practical support to patients, families and carers, promoting self-management following stroke and offering advice and signposting to other appropriate services as needed. You will support patients within a defined geographical area, however, on occasion there may be a requirement to provide countywide cover in line with service needs.

Responsibilities

• Support safe discharges from hospital and provide a high standard rehabilitation service to patients referred to the Integrated Community Stroke Service
• Provide specialist assessment, effective treatment, and individualised goal setting of patients in their own home/place of residence, to promote recovery post stroke
• Early identification and management of stroke-related complications
• Reduce readmissions due to complications post stroke
• Provide education and support to formal and informal carers
• Promote the development of self-management skills following stroke
• Provide advice and signposting to appropriate services

About us

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK. Over 4,000 people make up the Trust, including doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff. We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner. Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.