Community Occupational Therapist-Malvern Neighbourhood Team

Job summary

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join our team, providing comprehensive assessments relating to housing, adaptations, and specialist equipment for residents of the Malvern Hills area.

This a permanent post for 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday, with flexible working hours.

We offer a comprehensive induction and continuing professional development training programs to equip you with the skills and knowledge required. We provide regular peer and 1:1 supervision.

Whilst based within a supportive team you will have autonomy to balance and achieve the demands of this busy and varied role.

You will be an excellent communicator, working with clients, carers and other professionals to achieve excellent outcomes for your clients. You will need to be self-motivating have an excellent work ethic, working autonomously, as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

Within an individuals home you will assess their needs and those of their carers relating to reduced independence as a result of disability.

You will identify and with robust clinical reasoning, make recommendation in relation to their housing, specialist equipment, minor and major (DFG) adaptation needs to support independence, safety, and quality of life.

You will facilitate the provision of your recommendations via the appropriate funding and legislative means.

You will be responsible for the recording, planning, and organising of your own workload.

Working with your supervisor you will identify training and continued professional development needs to ensure you have the appropriate skills.

You will participate in a duty system, triaging referrals received by the service, to ensure clients assessment needs are directed and responded to appropriately.

You will contribute to the smooth running of an office, team and to wider service development.

About us

We are community hospitals, neighbourhood teams and community nursing services across Worcestershire and the provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We work in partnership with other organisations to keep our community well at home for as long as possible.

We provide services for people of all ages, across a range of settings, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions.

We have an open and supportive culture, recognised by the CQC and other external regulators. We want you to thrive, offering you every opportunity to develop. We will support you; help you fulfil your ambitions with a varied and flexible training programme; and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We endeavour to offer an attractive work-life balance, with flexibility in our approach to help you get the most out of your career.

We provide our staff with direct access to a wealth of resources to support their wellbeing, from our Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, to wellbeing festivals or access to free online exercise classes.

At the core of our values, we are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights. We take every opportunity to strengthen our approach to equality and diversity in delivering best patient care and the employment of our staff.

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Prospect View

300 Pickersleigh Road

Malvern

WR14 2GP

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Prospect View

300 Pickersleigh Road

Malvern

WR14 2GP

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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