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Candidates will enjoy a flexible working arrangement, with responsibilities including the assessment and treatment of patients with a range of complex conditions, both physical and psychological. The role also requires clinical supervision and professional development opportunities, contributing to the overall development of the Intermediate Care Service while ensuring high-quality rehabilitation and support for patients. A driving license and access to a car are necessary for the position, which may involve working weekends and holidays to meet service demands.
Are you passionate about Occupational Therapy? Are you looking for a role that supports people on a journey of recovery, and enable them to live the life to the best of their ability? Do you want to use your dual training skills to help people to live their lives!
Come and make a difference by joining our innovative Intermediate Care Reablement Team. The role of Occupational Therapy is essential in supporting people to transition back to their home environment, by focusing on what they want to, need to, have to and most importantly LIKE to do to ensure they life have purpose value and meaning.
The team consists of a Discharge Co-ordinator, OTs, Physios, Reablement Support Workers & Adult Social Care Workers all working with a shared vision of putting the person at the centre of their care. The role is based within a care home team which is walking distance from the centre of Taunton and the ethos is to enable people to be as independent as possible. We see people not only for their ongoing rehabilitations and support needs once discharged from the Acute hospital, but also through to the next stage of their journey into their home environment. This role works in collaboration with ongoing services to enable a person to maximise their potential in all aspects of occupations that are important to them.
Due to progression, we have a fantastic Band 6 full-time opportunity. We have flexible working if required to support you with your work-life balance and competing needs.
The post holder will be required to work their hours over 7 days, including out of hours, weekends and bank holidays, to meet the needs of the service, and must have UK driving licence and business insurance with access to a car for work duties.
In this post, you will be supported to:
To provide high quality patient-centred care and specialist rehabilitation to adults referred to the Intermediate Care Bedded Pathway Service.
Develop, use and be creative with your OT skills to work holistically and look deeper than the original diagnosis
Have the freedom and support to act in patients best interests what matters to you
Work with patients, to set personalised goals and individual treatment programmes
Work with patients, their families and the MDT to plan and implement discharge
Clinically supervise other members of the team
Connect with, assess and treat patients who may have diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions
Take a role in the development of the Intermediate Care Service within Somerset
Your professional supervision, includes support from the team leader who is an experienced AHP therapist, working with you in intermediate care. Links with other OTs within the intermediate care service will be supported.
The Occupational Therapy leads and Occupational Therapists across all agencies in Somerset are working together to implement our OT strategy with the aims of better experience for staff, better experience of care, better outcomes and values.
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