Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Other
- Job ref
- 150-OM0160-EAS
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brighton General Hospital
- Town
- Brighton and Hove
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Urgent Community Response - Senior Occupational Therapist
6
Job overview
It’s an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we continue to build on our successful model. UCR services work with patients in their homes across Brighton & Hove and East Sussex communities to avoid hospital admissions and support those being discharged home.
Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. They deliver:
· A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.
· A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges.
· Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
We are looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join us, so if you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced Occupational Therapist looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent acute community care, we’d love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will use your skills to undertake acute assessment, planning treatment and intervention for patients with a variety of conditions, identifying ongoing needs and making appropriate onward referrals to our partners.
You will be part of the co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team through the allocation of visits. You will also support the clinical and operational leads in the supervision and development of colleagues and can develop your clinical and non-clinical capabilities across the four pillars of practice.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Operational Team Lead, Elaria Sefain, [email protected].
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
Desirable criteria
- Training in student education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
- Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
- Experience of interdisciplinary working
- Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
- Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
- Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
- Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
- Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
- Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
- Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
- Able to delegate work to others
- Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
- Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
- Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
- Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
- Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
- Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
- Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
- Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
- Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
- Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Other
Essential criteria
- Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
- Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
Desirable criteria
- Flexible approach to working
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elaria Sefain
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 242117
- Additional information
01273 242117 option 1, option 2
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