Specialist Practitioner OT

Job summary

Are you ready for a new challenge? if so - this is an excellent opportunity to join our team as an Urgent Community Response and Intermediate Care OT covering the Scarborough and Ryedale area, on the North East coast and surrounding area, the role is offered at full time hours , would consider part time for the successful applicant

We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to work with our UCR and intermediate care team providing clinical input in order to facilitate timely discharge from an acute hospital stay or to remain safely at home when facing an unexpected health crisis.

Such as

• A new or acute problem
• An exacerbation of a chronic condition
• Serious illness where treatment is able to be supported at home
• Social Crisis such as breakdown of unpaid carer arrangement

The role includes integrated MDT working and with stakeholders such as Primary Care, Yorkshire Ambulance Service, acute and secondary care sectors targeted at people living with frailty, multi-morbidity and/or complex needs to help them stay independent and healthy for as long as possible. To succeed in this role you will need to be passionate about community healthcare, providing clinical triage and complex care delivery in patients homes and care homes, prioritising with clinical reasoning skills and able to tackle key priorities with enthusiasm

We are committed to our trust values of caring, learning & growing and offer a variety of learning opportunities with regular supervision

Main duties of the job

Job Role Summary

• To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice for a specialist caseload in a variety of settings
• To follow the Occupational Therapy process / pathway with patients within standard operating procedures and contribute to care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team
• To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support, training, and advice regarding the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.

Core Functions

• To help people who have difficulties carrying out day-to-day activities because of a disability, illness, trauma, ageing, and a range of long-term conditions.
• To support the Urgent Community Response service, aiding prevention of unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating early discharge from hospital
• To delegate intervention to the appropriate staff members to enable evidence based patient care and promote patient flow
• Provide Occupational Therapy advice to other disciplines and provide training and competency support to the wider team
• Participate in departmental research
• You will have management, coordination and supervision responsibilities for junior staff & students.

For full role and responsibilities please see attached Job description and person spec

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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