South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
Occupational Therapist
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South Warwickshire Foundation Trust
South Warwickshire Foundation Trust is committed to bringing care closer to home. Due to new and exciting service developments, a vacancy is now available for an enthusiastic and experienced Band 6 Occupational therapist to join our community response service with the main focus to support hospital discharges, as well as working with the urgent therapy response and routine therapy service.
About the Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic and forward-thinking service and a good opportunity to develop into an inspiring senior Occupational therapist. You will be well supported and encouraged to continuously develop to meet the needs of our service and your profession.
Responsibilities
The successful candidates will work with patients in their own homes to deliver an integrated rehabilitation pathway across community services. You will liaise and work closely with Community & Specialist Nursing Colleagues, General Practitioners and the acute hospital, as well as with other therapists within the Integrated Health Teams.
Working as a member of the Integrated Health team, planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the programmes of care provided across health, social and voluntary care sectors as part of a multi-disciplinary community-based rehabilitation team.
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To provide effective clinical leadership within the Integrated Health team, enabling the service to deliver to the highest possible care standards, ensuring that evidence-based practice is used. To act as a role model and exercise good leadership.
Providing skilled therapy treatment and advice to clients and carers. Communicating with members of the multi-disciplinary team to maintain high standards of care.
To work as an accountable and autonomous professional responsible for the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of clients who may have problems as a result of presenting with medical conditions involving multiple pathology and the acutely ill.
To provide assessment and treatment for patients with a range of complex physical, sensory, perceptual and cognitive problems within community settings as a member of the Intermediate Care Service.
To work flexibly over a 7-day roster including weekends and bank holidays in order to meet the demands of the service and a rapidly changing caseload.
About the Trust
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
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We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our Values
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient-facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion, We Encourage All Applicants To Complete A Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tracy Birkett
- Job title: Professional Team Therapy Lead
- Email address: tracy.birkett@swft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07500975474
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