Specialist Occupational Therapist - Hospital@Home Therapy Team

Wye Valley NHS Trust

The closing date is 20 April 2025

Job summary

Exciting Development opportunity with the dynamic Hospital at Home Therapy Team.

There will be an opportunity to gain specialist Occupational Therapy Band 6 competencies within community urgent response. Hospital at home therapy team work as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside physiotherapists, Therapy Assistant practitioners, Advanced Clinical practitioners, Hospital at Home nursing. Acute hospital discharge teams, Emergency department, Specialist palliative care team and Community Therapy Neighbourhood teams.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in developing their specialist knowledge, working closely with our Urgent response colleagues 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.

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

08 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-IC-7084729-A

Job locations

Vaughan Building, Belmont

Hereford

HR2 9RP

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered
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
Able to make independent, sound, clinical decisions and problem solve

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

Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered
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
Able to make independent, sound, clinical decisions and problem solve

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.