Community Occupational Therapist

# Community Occupational Therapist## Job Introduction As an Occupational Therapist, you will:  provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or outpatient setting in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well-being, within professional guidelines and protocols.

This is an exciting time to join us as we work in collaboration with local services to enhance rehabilitation in a seamless and integrated way.

If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you!

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week.
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* Main Responsibilities:

*** To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing occupational therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of specialist team members and the Team Leader.
* To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.
* Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
* To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
* With support of a specialist nurse or therapist to be accountable for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care plans, ensuring that care, needs and wishes of the individual are carefully and accurately documented in the clinical records.
* To support with Urgent Community Response relating to falls assessment, intervention, onward referral and signposting.
* To interpret situations acting and referring on appropriately.
** Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
**** The ideal candidate will have:
** Essential* Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT
* Registered as an OT with the Health professional Council
* To possess a current, valid full driving licence
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
* Experience of applying research based information to practice
* Assessment and care planning
* Working with a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience with in a range of patient/client care groups
* To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds
* To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
* Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
* Competence in a wide range of occupational therapy skills
** Desirable:
*** Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice
* Further qualifications relevant to the role
* Awareness of recent Government Papers that may affect future clinical practice
* Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care
** Please see the job description attached for the full specification.
**** Package Description
** As a
** Community Occupational Therapist
** you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* ** Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
*** Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or…