Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job summary

As the lead Occupational Therapist, you will be expected to hold and manage a complex clinical caseload and facilitate appropriate discharge from hospital. You will demonstrate highly specialist skills in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with a wide variety of long term/acute medical conditions and be responsible for the development of support staff through regular supervision and appraisals. You must have excellent communication skills with an empathetic and caring nature. You will need to be highly organised and have experience of working in older person's services. You will need to have the ability to travel to various locations around the county to facilitate hospital discharges.

As a team we offer a supportive working environment where you can further develop your clinical and interpersonal skills. We have a structured in-service training programme; supervision and appraisal system and you will be actively encouraged to participate in the student education programme.

It will be an expectation of this post that if needed the person works flexibly across all areas of the Central Integrated Therapy Team to include the Community Rehabilitation Team and Home First. Seven-day working could become an operational requirement of this post in the future.

Main duties of the job

As part of the role you will be expected to deliver high quality care working as part of an MDT to facilitate safe and timely hospital discharges.

It will be a requirement of the role to actively promote independence and individualised care planning to ensure gold standard care is delivered

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.