North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Senior Occupational Therapist
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North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust aims to provide accessible, non-stigmatising local services that contribute to the assessment, intervention, treatment, rehabilitation and enablement of Older Persons within the Acute and Urgent Care Directorate. To provide specialist assessment and interventions to identify and address occupational performance needs in self-care, productivity and leisure to support the safe and effective assessment and discharge of patients. The service is wholly committed to working with older people and their families and carers using Person Centred Planning approaches and affording older person’s with mental health or cognitive decline the opportunities to maximize independence, choice and control. The Occupational Therapist has a lead role in promoting, enhancing and maintaining the health and wellbeing of older people with a mix of complex health needs.
To provide high-quality occupational therapy assessment and intervention for adults aged 65 years and over with cognitive impairment admitted to Ward 4, a 15-bedded Discharge to Assess (D2A) ward. The post holder will play a key role in supporting safe, timely, and person-centred discharge planning, ensuring patients are discharged to the least restrictive environment with appropriate support in place.
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As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
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The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Anna Dunn
- Job Title: Older persons Inpatient Matron
- Email Address: Anna.Dunn@combined.nhs.uk
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