Community Occupational Therapist inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED 5 DEC 2023

Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year  PERMANENT 


Job Overview

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Community Therapy service. The service offers an urgent community response to ensure patients can be supported to stay at home to avoid hospital admission, as well as support those returning home from a hospital setting for ongoing rehabilitation to meet there full potential in their own environment. Alongside our Urgent Community Response offer we also offer community therapy to those patients with non-urgent routine therapy needs.

Successful candidates with be expected to work autonomously providing assessment and treatment/rehabilitation in peoples own homes.

We work closely with our other MDT colleagues, holding daily MDT's to support our patients in a collaborative way.

CPD is actively supported via clinical supervision, annual appraisal, in-service training from a uni-professional and multi-disciplinary point of view. Supervision of students is actively encouraged.

All our staff are fully supported by the Clinical and Operational Team.

If you are innovative, talented and adaptable, and would like to be part of a growing and forward thinking community team then come and join us.

Applicants must hold a valid UK driving license, have access to a vehicle for work purposes at all times on duty and confident to drive in all driving conditions for this community post.

Applicants will be flexible and adaptable, being able to respond to need at short notice.

  • To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with a diverse range of needs and presentations in a community setting.
  • To work as a specialist clinician to utilise, develop and enhance Occupational Therapy clinical and professional skills within the Service to deliver high standards of practice.
  • To apply the Occupational Therapy process within a Multi-Disciplinary format providing specialist assessment and treatment in clinical care pathways.
  • To take a lead in developing the Service. This involves promoting high quality clinical practice and ensuring professional standards are maintained in the workplace.
  • To deliver a specialist Occupational Therapy Service to patients within a variety of settings, requiring flexibility/adaptability in recognising the complexity of these environments to maximise their abilities and opportunities for occupational wellbeing.


Job Overview

If you like what you’ve read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto ‘apply for this job’ and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the Job Description and Person Specification.

 

 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Community Therapy service. The service offers an urgent community response to ensure patients can be supported to stay at home to avoid hospital admission, as well as support those returning home from a hospital setting for ongoing rehabilitation to meet there full potential in their own environment. Alongside our Urgent Community Response offer we also offer community therapy to those patients with non-urgent routine therapy needs.

Successful candidates with be expected to work autonomously providing assessment and treatment/rehabilitation in peoples own homes.

We work closely with our other MDT colleagues, holding daily MDT's to support our patients in a collaborative way.

CPD is actively supported via clinical supervision, annual appraisal, in-service training from a uni-professional and multi-disciplinary point of view. Supervision of students is actively encouraged.

All our staff are fully supported by the Clinical and Operational Team.

If you are innovative, talented and adaptable, and would like to be part of a growing and forward thinking community team then come and join us.

Applicants must hold a valid UK driving license, have access to a vehicle for work purposes at all times on duty and confident to drive in all driving conditions for this community post.

Applicants will be flexible and adaptable, being able to respond to need at short notice.

  • To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with a diverse range of needs and presentations in a community setting.
  • To work as a specialist clinician to utilise, develop and enhance Occupational Therapy clinical and professional skills within the Service to deliver high standards of practice.
  • To apply the Occupational Therapy process within a Multi-Disciplinary format providing specialist assessment and treatment in clinical care pathways.
  • To take a lead in developing the Service. This involves promoting high quality clinical practice and ensuring professional standards are maintained in the workplace.
  • To deliver a specialist Occupational Therapy Service to patients within a variety of settings, requiring flexibility/adaptability in recognising the complexity of these environments to maximise their abilities and opportunities for occupational wellbeing.



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