Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time Occupational Therapist within the urgent care response and intermediate care service in Torbay.

This opportunity allows you to undertake holistic needs-led assessments in partnership with service users, patients, and carers.

Responsibilities

• Support the management of a team caseload of complex, highly complex, and statutory work.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making, and independent judgment in a variety of community settings and situations.
• Work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality.
• Engage in Community therapy and Intermediate care work.
• Work flexibly to ensure a consistent and robust service, which covers seven-day working including weekends and bank holidays, or working in other localities across the bay as necessary to meet the needs of the service.
• Explore innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social services, and the private and voluntary sector in line with the Care Trust’s integration agenda.
• Manage an intensive acute caseload.
• Triage and prioritize work according to urgency and establish presenting risks.
• Assess and treat patients in a variety of community settings, which is mainly the patient’s own home, but could include nursing homes and residential homes.
• Work with a patient-centered approach, taking responsibility for planning, implementing, and reviewing OT interventions for patients and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision, and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission. Interventions include manual handling assessment and equipment provision, simple and complex equipment and adaptation prescription.
• Carry out home assessment visits with patients from temporary places of safety, thereby contributing to the planning and facilitation of discharge to their own homes as appropriate.
• Supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post, Assistant Practitioner, or support worker as required.