Band 7 Occupational Therapist - adult community

Job summary

Community Occupational Therapist (Adult)

Band 7

Highly specialist Occupational Therapist with extensive experience of working in community adult social care. Work with vulnerable adults to provide expert assessment and advice, and arrange service provision to improve independence, promote safety and adapt the environment. Contribute to day to day running of the service, and service improvement. Offer line management and supervision to occupational therapists and occupational therapy technicians. Experience working within adult social including major adaptations process. Experience of teaching others and presentations. Highly effective communicator. Ability to lead and motivate team. Experience of complex manual handling, standard and specialist equipment.

Interview date: TBC

Main duties of the job

1. Assess functional needs of adults in their home environment, recommend and implement an occupational therapy plan to optimise function and quality of life.

2. Ensure that assessment and intervention are culturally sensitive.

3. Contribute to overall operation of the service.

4. Support the team development in a specific area of community occupational therapy, e.g. intake and duty, complex manual handling, major adaptations.

5. Supervision and mentoring of occupational therapists and occupational therapy technicians.

6. Assessing for and supporting client through major adaptation process. To include DFG, liasing with housing and surveyors, Working with council and staying put.

About us

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon.

These include:o Croydon University Hospital o Purley Hospital o The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heath o Community bases at Purley, Sanderstead, New Addington, Broad Green, Woodside o A minor injuries unit in New Addington The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 3,500 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.Our Vision:"Excellent integrated care for you and your family, when and where you need it"Our 5 key 'Here for you' promises to the people of Croydon are:o You feel cared for by helpful and welcoming staff o You feel in safe hands with highly professional staff o You feel confident in your treatment from skilled teams of compassionate clinicians o You feel we value your time with convenient appointments, minimal waiting and care closer to homeo You feel it's getting better all the time as we continue to improve our services

We are one of 17 Trusts in the country who have been accepted as national pioneers on staff engagement and empowerment, through the adoption of "Listening into Action" as a new way of working. The approach we are taking to "Listening into Action" is new and different.