Specialist Occupational Therapist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN25 4AN |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6193250/249-6193250 |
Summary
We are an integrated, innovative and supportive inter-disciplinary team, making a real difference to people’s lives. We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist with previous NHS experience who is seeking to develop and support advanced specialist clinical practice and would relish the opportunity to develop with us. A background of working in an acute medical and with patients who have long term conditions would be highly valued within the Acute Care@Home and Urgent Community Response service. Confidence in proactively managing frailty is essential.
Your desire should be to develop your skills in rapid assessment; promoting health, well-being and independence within intermediate care across seven days. We champion interagency collaboration and work closely with Acute Hospital Services, Community, Adult Social Care and the Hospice. You will be based within the Community Rehabilitation Team who provide UCR, HomeFirst, Acute Care @Home, reablement, discharge to assess, specialist falls and Parkinsons services.
You will need to be a car driver and owner - independent means of travel is essential for this role.
• To provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients/clients, carers and families in their own homes. Wherever possible promoting hospital admission avoidance and reduce in-patient length of stay with supported early discharge to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Lead in the assessment, diagnosis and formulation of Occupational Therapy treatment plans for Acute Care @ Home patients.
• To share your knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to support teams in other clinical areas in complex case management.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
• Use specialist skills to screen and prioritise referrals for home based and venue based rehabilitation services and refer to other services when necessary.
• Assess the impact of the home environment and patient/client’s social network to establish any factors that may influence the treatment plan.
• As part of your employment with GWH we actively support and provide development opportunities to advance practice and to support your professional objectives. There is a strong leadership structure that enables both clinical and leadership development.
Please see the attached job description for full information
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024
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