Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care
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Role Overview
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 judgement 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 weekend and bank holiday work, 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.
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About the Team
The Baywide Intermediate Care Team are a large but supportive team who enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to the housebound patients. We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, making a difference and helping patients through their recovery and returning back to health and independence. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a healthy work/home life balance with opportunities to work autonomously.
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Benefits
Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay. Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Childcare at our day nursery
- Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full-time workers) plus bank/public holidays
- Staff Discounts
- Career development and training opportunities
- Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline
Our Values
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive, and focused on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths. We encourage outside-the-box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon. #CareToJoinUsTSD
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Rebecca Smith
- Job title: Baywide Deputy CSM for Health
- Email address: rebeccasmith16@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01803 210610
Working Hours: Monday – Friday (NWD Wednesday)
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