University Hospitals Tees
Senior Occupational Therapist
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Occupational Therapist in Rehabilitation
We are seeking a motivated, flexible, skilled Occupational Therapist with a special interest in Rehabilitation to join our Community Therapy team, based at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.
The service is currently integrating with social care to deliver an integrated therapy and reablement service, which will be jointly managed and supervised between health and social care.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical assessment, intervention, and oversight of patients being discharged from hospital with reablement support, admission to bed-based therapy provision, and patients who are in their own home and require a period of rehabilitation following a change to their functional ability, impacting on safety, carer support, independence, and emotional well-being.
- Work closely alongside locality reablement teams, bed-based provisions, hospital discharge teams, social care, voluntary agencies, and other therapy teams to ensure patients receive the best care and rehabilitation to improve independence and reduce reliance on care where possible.
Key Tasks
- Complete detailed holistic assessments and then formulate, evaluate, and review individualized therapy goals for adults who require rehabilitation to meet their optimal functional goals.
- Operate as part of Hambleton and Richmond Community Therapies to provide rehabilitation and maximize independence for adults who are placed in either short-term rehabilitation beds, permanent care placements, or their own homes.
- Work closely with social care colleagues and deliver joint supervision to generic support/therapy assistants.
- Be part of a clinical triage rota to provide clinical expertise in relation to the triage of all referrals into the service and either action or forward on as appropriate.
- Take a lead role as part of the duty team with regards to patient flow and accessing the correct service at the right time.
- Provide effective and efficient clinical skills to patients, as part of the Community Therapy Service within the framework of clinical governance.
- Take an active role in service development and implement into daily clinical practice.
- Support with clinical training for social care colleagues as part of the integration between health and social care.
- Support, when required, timely discharges into rehabilitation placements and prevent avoidable admission to hospital or long-term care.
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organizations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those whose first language is not English.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behavior change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Jo Rountree
- Job title: Therapy Lead
- Email address: joanne.rountree@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07792058391
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