Job summary
Intermediate Care and Community Occupational Therapist
Are you an enthusiastic Occupational Therapist who would like to be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team?
Do you enjoy the challenge of a wide variety of work?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Coastal Intermediate Care and Community Therapy Team to appoint an enthusiastic occupational therapist to work in an integrated team.
Our focus is patient driven carrying out holistic assessment and providing a rehabilitation approach.
The role is community based, visiting people in their own homes. We prevent hospital admissions, support patients discharged from hospital, to promote self-management for patients with long term conditions and palliative care.
Applicants must be qualified stated registered occupational therapist and have full access to a vehicle for work and possession of a full driving license is essential.
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Main duties of the job
- To undertake holistic needs-led assessments in partnership with service users, patients and carers.
- This role will include Intermediate Care, Community Hospital cover and Community therapy work. There is a division between these areas of work within the team and staff have an opportunity to work within both areas, according to demand.
- To explore innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social services and the private and voluntary sector in line with the Care Trust's integration agenda.
- To undertake specialist clinical Occupational Therapy assessment and provision within the community setting.
- To manage a personal caseload of complex, highly complex and statutory work. Act as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making and independent judgement in a variety of community settings and situations.
- The post-holder will be required to work flexibly to ensure a consistent and robust service; this including seven day working involving weekend and bank holiday working, or working in other localities as necessary to meet the needs of the service.
About us
You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes.
Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and Volunteering in Health.
The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and a 'can do' attitude. The successful candidate will be dynamic and key in managing patients to remain in their own home.
Our team is based at Teignmouth Hospital and provides a community service to the residents in the Coastal Locality. The multi- disciplinary community team have a hard-working, flexible and can-do approach. The team are a supportive and friendly, adapting to the ever changing demands on the service.
The post holder will participate in the development, training and support of the multi professional team and students. In return Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust offer training opportunities to support ongoing career development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assess patients understanding of interventions, gain valid formal consent and jointly agree goals. To have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Communication will include imparting sensitive and comprehensive information relating to diagnosis, prognosis, physical and functional recovery, and potential life style adjustments, to patients and their relatives. This may involve informing patients that they may be unable to return home or return to their previous level of activity/work/leisure.
- To use, regularly and spontaneously, verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, prognosis, and progression of rehabilitation and treatment programmes with patients and/or carers.
- This will include patients who may have difficulties with regard to complex emotional/psychological/physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who may be depressed, deaf, blind, and unable to accept their diagnosis, or have difficulty in understanding or communicating. Communication will involve the use of skills in motivating, negotiating, counselling, training, empathising and reassuring.
Why work with us -
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assess patients understanding of interventions, gain valid formal consent and jointly agree goals. To have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Communication will include imparting sensitive and comprehensive information relating to diagnosis, prognosis, physical and functional recovery, and potential life style adjustments, to patients and their relatives. This may involve informing patients that they may be unable to return home or return to their previous level of activity/work/leisure.
- To use, regularly and spontaneously, verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, prognosis, and progression of rehabilitation and treatment programmes with patients and/or carers.
- This will include patients who may have difficulties with regard to complex emotional/psychological/physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who may be depressed, deaf, blind, and unable to accept their diagnosis, or have difficulty in understanding or communicating. Communication will involve the use of skills in motivating, negotiating, counselling, training, empathising and reassuring.
Why work with us -
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
- CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
- Experience within NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions
- Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Desirable
- Experience of work involving discharge to assess (D2A)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Proven post-graduate experience
Desirable
- Clinical leadership skills
- Recruitment and selection training
- Appraisals and supervision training
- Experience of clinical audit
Special Exeperience
Essential
- Knowledge of vulnerable adults' protocols and procedures
- Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
- Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
- Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations.
- Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working
- Experience of initiating change in the workplace
- Experience of seating and postural management
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
- CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
- Experience within NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions
- Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Desirable
- Experience of work involving discharge to assess (D2A)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Proven post-graduate experience
Desirable
- Clinical leadership skills
- Recruitment and selection training
- Appraisals and supervision training
- Experience of clinical audit
Special Exeperience
Essential
- Knowledge of vulnerable adults' protocols and procedures
- Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
- Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
- Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations.
- Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working
- Experience of initiating change in the workplace
- Experience of seating and postural management
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).
