Specialist Occupational Therapist - Integrated Community Therapy Team
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Job summary
An exciting development opportunity for an Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated community Therapy Team. You will be locality based. Have the opportunity to develop your clinical skill across Therapy Community services including, Urgent Response, Discharge to Assess and Neighborhood Teams
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside physiotherapists, therapy assistant practitioners, ACPs, and nursing. We work closely with the acute services, District Nursing, GP surgeries and social care, providing support to enable patients to remain in their own home. This can be during an acute illness to prevent hospital admission or to facilitate an early discharge from the ED, acute wards and community hospital settings. Utilising the discharge to assess model.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in developing specialist knowledge of Emergency Medicine/Acute Medical Unit and other front door service's, Community Therapy, Frailty and Admission avoidance activity.
We have a high patient satisfaction rate with excellent feedback, also enhancing job satisfaction. This role is a good stepping stone between the acute hospital and community services and we are looking for flexible individuals who are able to meet the current challenges.
Main duties of the job
To work within the Integrated Community Therapy Team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions. To liaise with other health & social care professionals, to enable people to continue living in/to return to their homes in the community following illness or disability. To contribute to the ethos of person-centred care, care closer to home and self-management, by promoting the philosophy of Occupational Therapy within the team.
Aim to develop optimum levels of function and independence in the physical, emotional and social aspects of life to prevent inappropriate admission to hospital and facilitate timely and appropriate discharge from the acute sector utilising the discharge to assess pathway.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
25 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
229-IC-5329794
Job locations
Vaughan Building, Belmont
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Vaughan Building, Belmont
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)