Senior Occupational Therapist inWinchester inWinchester PUBLISHED
FRI 15 NOV 2024
Additionally, the Senior Occupational Therapist will be responsible for providing clinical supervision and delegating tasks to nursing and therapy staff, while fostering a coordinated case management approach across different care sectors. The role emphasises patient-centered care for those at high risk of hospital readmission and ensures collaboration with primary care, ambulance services, and social care professionals. The Trust is committed to inclusive recruitment practices and welcomes discussions about flexible working arrangements during the interview process.
The Senior Occupational Therapist is a key part of the Urgent Community Response and Frailty Hospital at Home Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team. You will be responsible for assessing and treating acutely unwell adults with a variety of decompensating physical health conditions and aim to manage their function at home, preventing hospital admission.
To work closely with the Consultant Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), the Allied Health Professional Lead, Team Lead and the wider nursing and therapy staff, as well as GPs to provide fast reactive services for patients with exacerbation of long term conditions and/or frailty, ensure rapid delivery of treatment, care planning and admission avoidance where appropriate.
To provide assessment and care planning including history taking, physical assessment and treatment planning, without direct supervision.
To work closely with the Allied Health Professional Lead, Team Lead, Consultant Practitioners, ACPs, GPs and patients, to proactively identify and manage patients with acute health needs and to support them and their carers. To delegate appropriate tasks to nursing and therapy colleagues, Associate Practitioners and Health Care Support Workers and offer clinical supervision to support them in their role.
To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically, primary care, ambulance trust, acute trust, community teams and social care professionals, leading and facilitating a patient focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital. See Job Description for full list.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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