Community Occupational Therapist

Job summary

The ethos of the team is a rehabilitative, person-led approach to recovery and self-management, to ensure we offer care close to home, avoiding unnecessary admissions to bed based services and supporting timely discharge from hospital. The post holder will be part of our the Core team. The post holder will work as an integral member of the Integrated Community Team to provide a service through assessing, collaborative goal planning, delivering and evaluating treatment for adults over the age of 18 with a physical disability as follows:

• Using recognised models of practice and evidence based interventions and outcome measures to underpin all practice
• Assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients, adopting a health coaching approach for all intervention
• Providing supervision and support to OT Assistants, Students and Reablement colleagues as appropriate.
• Providing occupational therapy advice to other disciplines and promoting the role of OT within the wider team.
• Participate in departmental research/project work when opportunities arise

Main duties of the job

• Carrying out evidence based assessment, intervention and evaluation of occupational performance needs of patients with physical disabilities. You will assess, provide advice, provide appropriate standard or specialist equipment, refer on for minor adaptations and liaise with the borough councils and housing associations in relation to major adaptations.
• Be competent in risk assessments and managing risk autonomously within the home environment.
• To advise other professionals e.g. district nurses, carers.
• Liaise with partner agencies to ensure patients access to environmental adaptations via the Disabled Facilities Grant process.
• To manage a diverse caseload of patients with complex needs.
• Understand the nature, aetiology and expected progression of a wide variety of diseases/disabilities and to plan appropriate interventions.
• Understand the psychological and sociological impact of disease/disability on patients and carers.
• Provide training, advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the physical, psychological and social environment to meet the occupational performance needs of the patient.
• To plan and implement individual interventions by setting goals in collaboration with the patient.
• Attend appropriate specialist courses and cascade training to colleagues.
• To monitor and support supervisees e.g. Occupational Therapy Assistants, students.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cinderford Health Centre

The Health Centre, Dockham Road

Cinderford

GL14 2AN

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cinderford Health Centre

The Health Centre, Dockham Road

Cinderford

GL14 2AN

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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