Specialist Occupational Therapist | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Posting date:	16 June 2025
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	18 July 2025
Location:	Norwich, NR2 2PJ
Company:	Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7280998/839-7280998-AB

Summary

Are you a forward thinking Occupational Therapist looking to move into the exciting area of specialist amputee-rehabilitation? If so, an opportunity has arisen within the Specialist Rehabilitation Team based at the Colman Centre for Specialist Rehabilitation in Norwich.

Our team provides specialist amputee-rehabilitation for patients who are referred to us from across Norfolk and Wavney.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, well motivated Occupational Therapist , into this part time post working 3 days a week on a fixed term basis for 6 months.

This role involves completing access visits and home visit across using the Trust's pool vehicles across Norfolk a full driving license is required.

You will work as an integral part of the ward team and be responsible for providing high standards of rehabilitation care to a group of patients with specialist needs, while supporting a safe and timely discharge.

You will be required to deliver evidence based care to a high standard. Excellent communication skills and a supportive approach to team working within a rehabilitation setting are key to the success of this service.

An ability to structure your own learning supported by the team gaining new knowledge and skills to benefit yourself and the service will be vital. You will be working with families and colleagues in complex discharge planning.

Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills are essential as is the need to be cheerful and courteous. Good computer skills or the ability to learn will be required for this role as we are using SystmOne to record our patient interventions.

Find out more about working for our organisation here:

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Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
• To assess and prescribe care packages for patients with complex rehabilitation needs.
• To work within the MDT to facilitate timely discharge from in-patient or outpatient service
• To work within the MDT to support patients in the community and prevent unnecessary admission to hospital
• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory and voluntary agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
• As required provide support to other services across the Colman Centre for Specialist Rehabilitation Services.




This advert closes on Friday 4 Jul 2025

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