Occupational Therapist

Band 6 Community Occupational Therapist
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Fleet Community Hospital, Church Road, Fleet, GU51 4LZ
Monday to Friday: 08:00-16:00
Ltd: £36ph
PAYE Equivalent: £32.20ph

We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Enhanced Intermediate Care Team. We are a multi-disciplinary team of OTs, physios, nurses, social workers and support coordinators working together to facilitate discharge from hospital, prevent unnecessary hospital admission and maximize independence at home. We work alongside a large team of support workers providing a short term reablement service.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide holistic OT assessment, goal setting, individualised treatment programmes, care planning and delivery.
Regular review and discharge of patients.
To manage a varied caseload, seeking support from senior staff where necessary to ensure the provision of a timely, clinically effective service based on evidence based practice.
To provide services to support discharge of patients from acute hospital and to provide an admission avoidance service for patients in crisis within community settings.
To undertake in-reach to acute and community settings.
To provide standardised cognitive assessments and treatment programmes as required.
To provide comprehensive environmental and functional assessments and treatment programmes.
To educate and provide necessary interventions around management of anxiety and fatigue.
To provide comprehensive manual handling care plans in a timely manner to ensure the effective and safe delivery of care plans.
To identify, assess and manage risk.
To triage new referrals, manage handovers and allocate work accordingly.
To provide line management and supervision to junior staff and practice placement students as appropriate.
To be responsible for the day-to-day management and prioritisation of your caseload and be able to respond to urgent referrals and an unpredictable workload. This could require prolonged concentration in an unpredictable environment.
To be able to manage potentially stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner when imparting bad news regarding rehabilitation potential. To ensure this is communicated sensitively to all parties concerned.
To report risks and harm to patients using the Trust reporting system.

We also offer a £250 bonus for starting this contract

If you know anyone who may be interested in the position we can also offer a £250 referral fee

If this role is of interest, please just respond to this advert with an up to date copy of your CV or call Jake on .