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Job summary

Main area
Occupational Therapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Flexibility to cover 7 day working required)
Job ref
201-24-510
Employer
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Liskeard Hospital/Bodmin Health Centre/Newquay
Town
TBC
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum / Pro Rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/07/2024 23:59
Interview date
31/07/2024

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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Occupational Therapist Integrated Community Stroke Service

Band 6

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

  • Care based on what matters to people.
  • Care provided at home or close to home.
  • Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
  • Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

  • Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
  • Technology enabled care.
  • Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
  • Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

  • A place people love to work and feel valued.
  • Living our values with staff (all voices count).
  • Attract, grow and develop talent.
  • Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

  • Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
  • Joined-up community services.
  • Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
  • Reduce our impact on the environment.

 At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

 

Job overview

As part of the Integrated Community Stroke Service you will be required to participate in the delivery of Occupational Therapy as part of the integrated community stroke service team, across 7 days on a rotational basis providing specialist assessments and associated care for patients across a defined geographical area.  There may be need to provide countywide cover on occasion.

 

Proposed interview date:  31st July  2024

Main duties of the job

 Service Aims

  • Support safe discharges from hospital and provide a high standard rehabilitation service to patients referred to the Integrated Community Stroke Service
  • Provide specialist assessment, effective treatment, and individualised goal setting of patients in their own home/ place of residence, to promote recovery post stroke.
  • Early identification and management of stroke related complications.
  • Reduce readmissions due to complications post stroke.
  • Provide education and support to formal and informal carers.
  • Promote the development of self management skills following stroke.
  • Provide advice and signposting to appropriate services

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time.  Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams, with an understanding of team roles and professional roles.
  • Experience of evaluating service delivery and monitoring effectiveness and outcomes of intervention, and of undertaking clinical audit and research
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in the NHS in the following clinical areas: stroke, eldercare, neurology

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy
  • Current professional registration with the HCPC
  • Evidence of own professional development and additional specialist training in relevant area to post-graduate diploma level
  • Evidence of attending and using specialist knowledge gained from post-graduate study and courses to support practice.
Desirable criteria
  • EFieldwork educator / Clinical placement supervisor /Experience as a clinical educator of OT students
  • Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy (RCOT)
  • Membership of RCOT Specialist Section – Neurological Practice

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to act as an autonomous practitioner to deal with complex clinical issues
  • Specialist level assessment skills
  • Completion of stroke competencies or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
  • The ability to deliver training both within and external to the trust/establishment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Grace Livingstone
Job title
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07769241905
Additional information

Monday - Wednesday  8am - 4pm

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