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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community Rapid Response and Rehabilitation Team (CRRT), for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Occupational Therapist. You will be working alongside and Multidisciplinary Team of experienced, physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists a, Registered nurses, Rehab support team members and administrative staff.

• This post requires the applicant to have a reasonable post registration experience of working with Multi-Disciplinary Team working within the hospital or community team.
• You will be expected to work autonomously within both the hospital and community settings, assessing, managing, and treating patients.
• You will be expected to visit patients within their own homes, which includes weekends and bank holidays.
• Driving Licence required working within the Community.
• Option of 4 day / 5 day - working pattern to cover a 7 day service from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM or 10: 15 AM to 20:15pm

Candidates are welcome to meet the team for more information.

• Interview date: 30th July 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week 
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The key objectives in this role are:

1. To carry out proactive discharge planning at the  which involves the Assessment Suite and the Emergency department at the Royal Victoria Infirmary with the aim of preventing admissions and/or reducing their length of stay.
2. Proactive discharge  support and rehabilitation
3. To assess and engage frail patients in the community, in rehabilitation to attain optimum levels of safety, independence, health and wellbeing and follow a for all our frail elderly patients.
4. Maintain frail patients at home using Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, thorough risk assessment, risk management techniques with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and readmissions.
5. Have a role in supporting the coordinator with management of the short term rehabilitation-focused care and rehab service with patients in the community.
6.  Supervision and education of students and support workers.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.