Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen, and we are looking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic team.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Occupational Therapist to provide clinical and professional Occupational Therapy interventions within the community. The post holder will provide support to the Community Care teams, ensuring that the team contributes to the implementation of Southern Health Clinical Governance Strategies.

The appointed person must be a car driver and have access to a car, this is essential for this role.

This is a part time post (30 hrs a week)

We offer flexible working and will be happy to discuss this if request meet the service needs.

For more information or informal visit please contact Alice Enticknap --Team Leader on 02382 318 321

Main duties of the job

To provide advanced clinical and professional Occupational Therapy to the Community Therapy Team, and to provide support to the Integrated Community Care team leaders in ensuring that the team contributes to the implementation of Southern Health Clinical Governance Strategies.

Undertake Occupational Therapy assessments of patients with diverse and complex conditions, providing a clinical diagnosis (where appropriate), development, and delivery of individualised treatment programmes.

To support the case management process by providing expert clinical advice and therapy to patients with a variety of complex conditions living in the community who are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission to secondary care

To provide clinical Occupational Therapy skills within the Community Therapy Team, and all other provider organisations.

To be skilled in assessing and treating a range of complex factors relating to the patient's condition, diagnosis and prognosis

To provide specialist intervention tailored to meet the uniqueness of the individual.

i.e complex manual handling and 24 hour posture management.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Havant Health Centre

Civic Centre Road

Havant

Hampshire

PO9 2AZ

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Havant Health Centre

Civic Centre Road

Havant

Hampshire

PO9 2AZ

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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