Home First Assessor Occupational Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 per annum incl HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, W9 2BA |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6273702/333-G-CIS-0175 |
Summary
Home First Clinical Assessors Band 5 (Occupational Therapist)
The Community Independence Service (CIS) Urgent Community Response and Home First are developing services in Intermediate Care. There is an exciting opportunity to join our Home First Pathway as a Band 5 Occupational Therapist. The service aspires in supporting development of team members to strengthen the quality of our Home First Pathway and the services we provide. We aim to provide the best care to all our patients in their homes avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharge from hospital to home utilizing team members from a variety of clinical background.
We are looking for therapists with a passion for the highest standards of patient care and excellent team work. This role would be suitable for someone who enjoys working creatively beyond the traditional boundaries of normal practice and who has a real drive to make sure their patients get the best treatment possible.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 5 looking to develop further and diversify their scope of practice to support a small but expanding service working alongside the wider Community Independence Service Teams (CIS). We offer significant development opportunities and the chance to work in a supportive, friendly and exciting team.
The successful applicant will be well supported by the Pathway Lead (Occupational Therapist), band 7 OT/PT, band 6 OT/PT and the multidisciplinary team, physiotherapists, HCA’s, nurses, paramedics and health technicians. Your role as a Home first assessor in CIS will be to work in an integrated way and provide a high quality, client-led and goal focused treatment. You will be working across Home First and Urgent Community Response caseloads.
Continuing professional development is actively supported via clinical supervision, Personal Development Reviews and in-house training. Professional development is supported by involvement in service improvement and quality improvement projects. There may be an opportunity to rotate with Rehab team within Westminster CIS.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
In return for your skills and dedication to the team and our patients we endeavour to provide:
• A supportive environment to learn and develop your new skills.
• Opportunities to work with Consultant Geriatricians to advance your clinical management skills of patients in their own home.
• Regular training above and beyond statutory and mandatory training.
• An emphasis on a good work life balance including meal breaks to enable staff to perform at their best.
• A management team that listens to and acts on your concerns.
• Experience helping to manage the team.
• Invitations to attend the monthly CIS Occupational Therapy forums with other colleagues from across the three boroughs.
• A full NHS benefits package plus a lease car option.
• Agenda for change pay scale band 5 + inner London weighting.
For this post, the following are essential:
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills
• Current HCPC registration
• To identify/case find and pull potential CIS patients in partnership with acute colleagues ensuring that as soon as patients are medically stable they are transferred to the appropriate community service.
• To independently undertake assessments of health and social care needs of patients in order to plan community services required.
• To support and enable the process of safe discharge from secondary to Community Services and assist in bridging the gap from hospital to home.
• To proactively promote a seamless and multidisciplinary approach to health and social care provision.
• To proactively develop close working relationships with primary, secondary, voluntary and social care colleagues which promotes and supports effectively, utilising resources, ensuring patients receive the right service at the right time and in the right environment.
• To ensure that the patient’s individual needs, cultural beliefs, dignity and privacy are maintained at all times.
• To work in partnership with secondary care on the further development of CIS Liaison to be responsive to patient and service needs.
• To work in partnership with GPs in order to plan and provide the best care for their patients in the community.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Jun 2024
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