Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group
Senior Occupational Therapist - Front Door Therapy - Band 6
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Senior Occupational Therapist
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Front Door Therapy Team at Lincoln Hospital.
About the Role
You will work within an experienced front door therapy team assessing patients from multiple specialities to facilitate discharge from the emergency areas. You must be someone who enjoys the fast pace of life as well as being a great decision maker and communicator. You must be flexible, innovative, highly motivated and above all be committed to improving the care and assessment of people living with frailty.
Responsibilities
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The skills and knowledge of the Occupational Therapists are essential in supporting patients living with frailty and complex conditions and in assisting them in recovering from illness, to return home sooner with a safe and effective discharge plan based on their current needs and abilities, whilst promoting their independence and dignity, with the ultimate aim to improve the patient outcome and experience.
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To use expert skills and knowledge part of a comprehensive MDT assessment to support the management of adults.
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To manage a complex caseload.
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To complete complex moving and handling assessments and/or demonstrating the use of moving and handling equipment with families and/or informal carers.
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This may also include identifying and completing access and environmental home assessments to identify and minimise potential risk, part of effective discharge planning.
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To use highly developed communication skills on a daily basis, to liaise with patients, families, carers and a broad multidisciplinary team.
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You will be required to work in a range of emergency assessment areas, responding to patients in a timely and proactive manner.
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To also support the junior members of the team including therapy assistant practitioners with the delegation of assessments, caseload management and to provide regular supervision.
Service Locations
Your base will be Lincoln County Hospital but you will be required to travel to Pilgrim Hospital Boston as required to support the front door service.
Service Hours
Service hours are 7 days a week from 8 am to 8pm and post holder is required to work within those hours to meet service needs.
Requirements
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Standard driving skills to visit patients or transport equipment from one location to another.
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Ability to travel across Lincolnshire not serviced by public transport.
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Car driver.
About the Hospitals
Pilgrim Hospital
Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
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Lincoln Hospital
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
About the Trusts
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Contact for Further Details
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Laura M Gonzalez
- Job title: Service lead Therapies at the Front Door
- Email address: Laura.MenendezGonzalez@ulh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01205 445457
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