Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist
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Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist - Care Home Support Team
We here at BHFT are looking for an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work within the Care Home Support Team within East Berkshire. This unique role will allow you to work on a Monday to Friday basis between normal office hours, using your clinical expertise to train and develop care home staff across East Berkshire. Unlike your normal clinical role, you will be working from home and taking occasional visits to care homes across East Berkshire to deliver in person training.
You will work with the Integrated Care Board, Care Homes and Local Authorities to ensure that our care home staff are delivering an enhanced and top tier service to its residents.
Responsibilities
- To work in partnership with care homes to develop pro-active training/educating advisory service that aims to improve the health, well-being, and independence of all care home residents.
- Identify the specific skills and training requirements for each care home and deliver and record a tailored training programme.
- Attend and contribute to clinical/care homes MDT and cluster meetings where appropriate.
- Share expert knowledge and skills with the care homes to enhance their skills.
- To independently manage a small caseload of complex cases relating to mobility, pressure, and postural care and often in combination with communication, challenging, cognitive and/or perceptual difficulties.
- Formulate individualised action plans based on the assessment findings and clinical reasoning.
- Work as a senior practitioner and be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of your own work.
- Complete support visits to care homes and offer advice and support.
- Continue working alongside local authorities to support those homes rated red or amber and those with residents who have frequent hospital admissions.
- Signpost and support with making direct referrals on to other community services or professions as required.
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About Us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our Values
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
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Benefits
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Application
If this fantastic opportunity appeals to you, we would love to have an application from you. We will be offering interviews on a first come first serve basis and aim to give you an outcome on your application within 2 working days. We are open to offering this post as part time or full time. This is a fixed term post to cover maternity leave an end date will be confirmed in due course.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Corinna Green
- Job title: Clinical Lead
- Email address: Corinna.Green@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07929 824 283
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