Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Are you a passionate Occupational Therapist looking for a rewarding role in patient-centred rehabilitation? Join our Intensive Rehabilitation Service in South Wiltshire, where you'll make a real difference in the lives of patients recovering from hospital admissions.

This inpatient rehabilitation setting provides individuals with focused support to achieve their recovery goals, enabling them to regain independence and transition either back home or to a more suitable care setting.

Your Role:

As an Occupational Therapist, you will:
provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or outpatient setting in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well-being, within professional guidelines and protocols.

This is an exciting time to join us as we work in collaboration with local services to enhance rehabilitation in a seamless and integrated way.

If you're ready to take on this meaningful and fulfilling role, we'd love to hear from you

To discuss the vacancy further or to arrange an informal visit please call Clinical Lead Peter Busby on 07917307856 or Team Lead Sarah Furia on 07788396515.

Main duties of the job

To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing occupational therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of specialist team members and the Team Leader.

To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.

Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.

To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.

With support of a specialist nurse or therapist to be accountable for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care plans, ensuring that care, needs and wishes of the individual are carefully and accurately documented in the clinical records.

To interpret situations acting and referring on appropriately.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Senior Occupational Therapist you'll be part of our valued team in the Intensive Rehab Service, Little Manor Care Home.

You will feel valued as a Senior Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with Agenda for change terms and conditions and NHS pension.
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Essential

Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT

Registered as an OT with the Health professional Council

To possess a current, valid full driving licence

Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice

Experience of applying research based information to practice

Assessment and care planning

Working with a multi-disciplinary team

Experience within a range of patient/client care groups

To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds

To be able to work flexibly and sensitively

Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills

Competence in a wide range of occupational therapy skills

I.T. literate

Typing / data inputting skills for accessing patient information

Manual handling skills and experience

Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues

To be flexible and adaptable

Organisational skills

Report writing

Experience of dealing with difficult situations

Driven to achieve

Self-motivated

Good time management

Desirable

Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice

Further qualifications relevant to the role

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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