Senior Occupational Therapist - Integrated Therapies Team

Wye Valley NHS Trust

The closing date is 03 January 2025

Job summary

New and exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Integrated therapies team. This is a new post as our dynamic and effective team is growing!

While working with our Virtual Ward (VW), Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Neighbourhood teams you will be at the forefront of delivering high quality patient care to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.

Our Hospital at Home therapy team are an integral part of our UCR Service and our VWs. We are a multi-disciplinary team so you will be working alongside physiotherapists, assistant practitioners, Advanced Clinical practitioners, GPs, consultants and Nurses.

There will be support and opportunity to gain specialist Occupational Therapy Band 6 competencies within the speciality.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in developing their specialist knowledge, working closely with our integrated teams with aim of preventing hospital admissions and facilitating early discharges from hospital.

You will be offered regular formal (and informal) supervision with training opportunities to support your development. The hospital at home therapy team have a high patient satisfaction rate with excellent feedback.

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.

Each day is varied and interesting - You will conduct specialist assessments for things like acute functional decline, complex moving and handling, transfer and gait assessment and find solutions where possible with adaptive equipment or treatment plans. You will regularly be working autonomously but will also have plenty of opportunities for joint working with the wider UCR/VW MDT.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 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 3,500 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

20 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

229-IC-6667180-B

Job locations

Belmont

Vaughan Building

Hereford

HR2 9RP

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Degree in Occupational Therapy
HCPC Registration
Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail

Experience

Essential

NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Degree in Occupational Therapy
HCPC Registration
Post Graduate specialist qualification/significant post graduate experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
Demonstration of knowledge of core and specialist Therapy skills
Evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail

Experience

Essential

NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment

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.