Community Occupational Therapist

Job summary

We have an exciting rotational opportunity within the Community in Scarborough & Ryedale to start, or progress your Occupational Therapy career.

In this role you will get to experience both the Planned Therapy Service and the Urgent Community Response Team via a rotation.

Some of the highlights of this opportunity are that you get to work with patients in their own homes to maximise & maintain their independence, prevent admission to hospital and provide rehabilitation following inpatient stays. Because our wider service is a multi-speciality model, we have our own specialist therapist and nurses who are a brilliant source of information, advice and training. Specialism include Respiratory Physio, Nursing & Pulmonary Rehabilitation; MSK Physio; Stroke Specialist OT/Physios; SLT; Continence Nurses; Dietitians; Heart Failure Nurses; Cardiac Rehab Physio & Nurses; Diabetes Specialist Nurses.

The Planned Therapy rotation is based in Scarborough & Filey working Monday - Friday, and the Urgent Community Response Team work across Scarborough & Ryedale 7 days a week 8am-8pm on a rota basis.

Main duties of the job

The main duties for the role will include -

• Be responsible own autonomous practice and ensure effective patient care is maintained.
• Undertake Occupational Therapy assessments of patients with physical conditions, providing holistic assessment, development, and delivery of individualised treatment programmes.
• Provide rehabilitation programmes within the integrated team, supporting the teams to deliver patient pathways which support patients with a variety of conditions, in a range of community venues and the patient's own home environment.
• To adhere to professional and standard operational processes relating to the provision and development team.
• Participate in regular supervision
• Maintain up to date, evidence base knowledge via regular, documented CPD activities
• Supervise and delegate to junior staff including student OTs

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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