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Occupational therapist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Chwefror 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £35,964 - £43,780 per annum inc. HCA |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Mawrth 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE27 9AW |
| Cwmni: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6983795/196-LIS9273 |
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The @home service is one of the leading and largest Urgent Community Response services in London. We are currently expanding the AHP roles within the service are excited to advertise for a band 5 Occupational Therapist to join the team. This role is suited to an Occupational Therapist with acute and/or community experience relevant to the role who is seeking a new and rewarding challenge. This person will be innovative, enthusiastic, and thrive working in a multidisciplinary service. As this is a newly created post, a robust induction programme and support framework will be in place to support development needs.
The service aligns with the NHS England’s Long-Term Plan to support England’s ageing population and those with complex needs. The @home service are expanding our virtual ward and falls pathways, supporting elderly fallers to remain at home thus reducing the pressure on LAS; and working more collaboratively with social care and other community therapy teams.
The service operates seven days per week between the hours of 08.00hrs to 23.00hrs however therapists will work until 20.00. This is a shift work pattern rota of 13 shifts over a four-week period, inclusive of weekends. This role requires the use of public transport for home visits. Alternatively having a valid and current UK driver’s license and/or vehicle that can be used for home visiting is desirable.
As an Occupational Therapist you will demonstrate sound assessment skills and interventions; patient-centred goals setting abilities; and collaborative multidisciplinary discharge planning abilities in a fast-paced working setting. The successful candidate will be passionate about urgent therapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation in supporting patients to remain in their own home. This post will involve working in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark which occupy some of the most diverse populations, cultures and languages in London.
You will have supervisory responsibilities for the Nursing Rehab Support Workers and Allied Health Students. Furthermore, you will be an active participant in evidence-based projects, training, departmental research and audits, including recommendations for changes in practice as required and in line with current NHS directives.
Excellent communication skills are essential, and you must be enthusiastic, flexible and able to work using sound clinical assessment and clinical reasoning skills. The successful candidate will have well-rounded support and opportunities for career progression and development. Support will also be provided through regular supervision and performance development reviews.
The @home service is a community based, multidisciplinary team consisting of GP’s, Consultant Geriatricians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, and NRSW. Referrals come primarily from primary and secondary centres; consultants, GPs, health providers, social care services, and the London Ambulance Service.
Patient conditions range from acute medical episodes to more acute on chronic longer-term or complex health or social conditions, including the frail elderly, who benefit from short-term acute interventions that our service provides. We work closely teams through the patients care pathway, inclusive of acute to longer-term support teams, as indicated
• Responsible for providing individual, client-centred assessment as an autonomous practitioner in the patient’s own home, whilst ensuring occupation focussed practice
• Address occupational performance skills, patterns, context and activity demands in collaboration with patients / carers / next of kin (NOK), using theoretical model of practice
• Be able to identify significant health changes that would warrant medical intervention and liaise with the relevant practitioner
• To liaise with the multidisciplinary team and identify when referral on to other professions within the team or outside agencies is indicated. This may include making recommendations on package of care needs when appropriate
• To ascertain rehabilitation potential of patients following assessment, and to devise both uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary rehabilitation goals which address clinical rehabilitation needs, client choice, service criteria, urgency of need and clinical risk.
• Use effective interpersonal skills to encourage active participation from patients, carers and NOK in the Occupational Therapy process
• Maintain professional registration requirements by engaging in continuous professional development, keeping knowledge and skills up to date and in line with new developments within Occupational Therapy profession
• Provide supervision and guidance to therapy students and NRSW’s, as required
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for comprehensive details .
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Feb 2025