Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group
Senior Occupational Therapist - Front Door Therapy - Band 6
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About the Role
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Senior Occupational Therapist to join our Front Door Therapy Team at Lincoln Hospital. You will work within an experienced front door therapy team assessing patients from multiple specialities to facilitate discharge from the emergency areas.
Key Requirements
- Enjoy the fast pace of life
- Great decision maker and communicator
- Flexible, innovative, highly motivated
- Committed to improving the care and assessment of people living with frailty
Responsibilities
- Support patients living with frailty and complex conditions
- Assist patients in recovering from illness to return home sooner with a safe and effective discharge plan
- Promote patients' independence and dignity
- Improve the patient outcome and experience
Tasks
- Use expert skills and knowledge as part of a comprehensive MDT assessment to support the management of adults
- Manage a complex caseload
- Complete complex moving and handling assessments and/or demonstrate the use of moving and handling equipment with families and/or informal carers
- Identify and complete access and environmental home assessments to identify and minimize potential risk, part of effective discharge planning
- Use highly developed communication skills to liaise with patients, families, carers, and a broad multidisciplinary team
- Work in a range of emergency assessment areas, responding to patients in a timely and proactive manner
- Support junior members of the team including therapy assistant practitioners with the delegation of assessments, caseload management, and provide regular supervision
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Service Details
- Base: Lincoln County Hospital
- Travel to Pilgrim Hospital, Boston as required
- Service hours: 7 days a week from 8 am to 8 pm
- Standard driving skills required to visit patients or transport equipment from one location to another
- Ability to travel across Lincolnshire not serviced by public transport
Hospital Locations
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Pilgrim Hospital
- Situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area
- Provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service
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Grantham and District Hospital
- Serves the communities of Grantham and the local area
- Provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services
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- Lincoln Hospital
- A thriving university city with the opening of the medical school
- Provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service
Trust Information
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United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Granted teaching hospital status, now known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Committed to significant teaching
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Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT)
- Have come together in a Group arrangement, known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG)
- Goal: Improve the care provided to patients across the county
- Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations
Contact Information
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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