Occupational Therapist Hounslow Falls and Bone Health Service
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,720 - £39,769 per annum pr including HCAS (outer) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Hounslow, TW3 3EL |
| Company: | Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6259043/779-NN-6259043-AHP-Z |
Summary
A Vacancy at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are looking for a talented and dynamic occupational therapist for this newly created post in our Falls Prevention and Bone Health Service.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including physiotherapy, dietetics and nursing, with patients and their carers to offer a multi factorial falls risk assessment followed by a range of multi-disciplinary interventions. You will also work closely with colleagues in the acute Falls / Frailty clinic, the local authority home safety service and voluntary sector services. We are seeking someone with a passion for Occupational Therapy along with the skills to work collaboratively and creatively as part of the multidisciplinary team.
The service is delivered through multiple site clinics and home visits. The post holder will work flexibly and be mobile across the Hounslow Borough.
Provide multifactorial falls risk assessments and comprehensive fracture risk assessments and bone health management for clients who are at risk of, or worried about falling.
Independently manage a caseload without direct supervision and to be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of clinical risk.
Apply knowledge and skills in the assessment of occupational performance in order to formulate preventative intervention and promote self management for people at risk of falling.
Deliver group and individual interventions, working as part of the multidisciplinary team to prevent falls
Comply with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Core Standards of Practice and Health Professionals Council Standards of Performance Conduct and ethics of all other relevant national and local policies and procedures.
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.
In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Infection Control
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
****Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of role and responsibilities****
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024
We are looking for a talented and dynamic occupational therapist for this newly created post in our Falls Prevention and Bone Health Service.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including physiotherapy, dietetics and nursing, with patients and their carers to offer a multi factorial falls risk assessment followed by a range of multi-disciplinary interventions. You will also work closely with colleagues in the acute Falls / Frailty clinic, the local authority home safety service and voluntary sector services. We are seeking someone with a passion for Occupational Therapy along with the skills to work collaboratively and creatively as part of the multidisciplinary team.
The service is delivered through multiple site clinics and home visits. The post holder will work flexibly and be mobile across the Hounslow Borough.
Provide multifactorial falls risk assessments and comprehensive fracture risk assessments and bone health management for clients who are at risk of, or worried about falling.
Independently manage a caseload without direct supervision and to be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of clinical risk.
Apply knowledge and skills in the assessment of occupational performance in order to formulate preventative intervention and promote self management for people at risk of falling.
Deliver group and individual interventions, working as part of the multidisciplinary team to prevent falls
Comply with the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Core Standards of Practice and Health Professionals Council Standards of Performance Conduct and ethics of all other relevant national and local policies and procedures.
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.
In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Infection Control
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
****Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of role and responsibilities****
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024