Job summary
We have an opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our supportive, diverse and fun team at Gosport War Memorial Hospital inpatient rehabilitation wards.
We take a range of referrals, predominantly from the acute trust and community teams; stepping up vulnerable patients to prevent hospital admission. Our patients come with a variety of needs, from simple to complex and with a range of conditions and co-morbidities ranging from orthopaedic and neurological to ICU step downs, giving you the opportunity to think outside the box and enhance knowledge and skills.
The Occupational Therapy Team, pride themselves on their ability to innovate and adapt to the challenges of rehabilitation with active quality improvement programmes, to ensure that practice is current, and the patient voice is heard.
Our vision is providing Quality Care which uses a person-centred approach, working closely with a wider multi-disciplinary team to achieve exceptional patient care and outcomes.
The role is currently ward based but we complete visits to patients' homes to facilitate discharge plans and continuity of care so access to transport is essential.
The Team consists of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Doctors, Consultants, Social Workers and Healthcare Assistants who work together in an integrated way to provide co-ordinated, clinical support to promote independence and to improve quality of life.
If you'd like more information or want to come and look around, please reach out.
Main duties of the job
To provide advanced clinical and professional Occupational Therapy to the Community Therapy Team/Community Hospital Team, and to provide support to the Integrated Community Care team leaders in ensuring that the team contributes to the implementation of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare Clinical Governance Strategies.
Undertake Occupational Therapy assessments of patients with diverse and complex conditions, providing a clinical diagnosis (where appropriate), development, and delivery of individualised treatment programmes.
To support the case management process by providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions living in the community who are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission to secondary care
To provide clinical Occupational Therapy skills within the Community Therapy Team/ Community Hospital Team(s), and all other provider organisations.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Allied Health Professional, educated to Degree level or Diploma equivalent.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence including:
- Complex therapy/care co-ordination/manual handling and posture management.
- Proactively manage complex conditions.
- Knowledge of managing cognitive impairment and mental well-being.
- Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence.
- Developing programmes of therapy, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
- Professional practice and leadership.
- Experience of inter-agency and partnership working.
- Experience in carrying out clinical audit and risk assessment, outcome measurement.
- Proven skills in supervision, and contribution to service development.
- Strong IT Skills -- including excel and power-point
- Good Presentation skills / public speaking
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Responsive and flexible
- Innovative approach to improving patient experience
- Promotes service improvement
- Seeks opportunity to provide medium -- long term value addresses inefficiencies quickly
- Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
- Proactive, solutions focused attitude
- Focuses self and team to deliver results
- Provides clear goals and objectives
- Promotes cohesion and team working
- Works collaboratively with teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy
- Resolves conflict effectively
- Ability to travel across community & PSEH Geography to deliver services affectively
- Assertive, honest and open resolving problems
Desirable
- Experience of practice within community settings.
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Specialised treatment programmes
- Adult services and/or voluntary sector
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Clinical and technical skills in Occupational Therapy/physiotherapy and rehabilitation for people with highly complex long-term conditions and disabilities.
- Analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Allied Health Professional, educated to Degree level or Diploma equivalent.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence including:
- Complex therapy/care co-ordination/manual handling and posture management.
- Proactively manage complex conditions.
- Knowledge of managing cognitive impairment and mental well-being.
- Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence.
- Developing programmes of therapy, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
- Professional practice and leadership.
- Experience of inter-agency and partnership working.
- Experience in carrying out clinical audit and risk assessment, outcome measurement.
- Proven skills in supervision, and contribution to service development.
- Strong IT Skills -- including excel and power-point
- Good Presentation skills / public speaking
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Responsive and flexible
- Innovative approach to improving patient experience
- Promotes service improvement
- Seeks opportunity to provide medium -- long term value addresses inefficiencies quickly
- Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
- Proactive, solutions focused attitude
- Focuses self and team to deliver results
- Provides clear goals and objectives
- Promotes cohesion and team working
- Works collaboratively with teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy
- Resolves conflict effectively
- Ability to travel across community & PSEH Geography to deliver services affectively
- Assertive, honest and open resolving problems
Desirable
- Experience of practice within community settings.
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Specialised treatment programmes
- Adult services and/or voluntary sector
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Clinical and technical skills in Occupational Therapy/physiotherapy and rehabilitation for people with highly complex long-term conditions and disabilities.
- Analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
