Occupational Therapist - Band 5 / 6 Coventry, England
Job description
Band 5 / 6
Full time hours available, permanent post
Welcome to Coventry!
We are based in a bustling cosmopolitan, culturally diverse city in the centre of England, easily accessible to all major cities.
We love what we do and we believe you will too!
If you are an Occupational Therapist with a passion for working within a community based rehabilitation service and wish to develop your leadership skills and broaden your clinical experience in a wide range of conditions, then this is the post for you.
Our patients tell us that we make a difference to the quality of their lives and you are now able to apply to become part of our team and achieve value-based job satisfaction too.
You will join our dynamic Multi-Disciplinary Team of who strive to understand what matters to our patients; enabling patient centred care to achieve their goals. Your support will enable our patients to understand more about what has caused their health decline and engage them in meaningful rehabilitation that encourages self-management impacting on long term outcomes.
At present the Planned Community Therapy service operates from Monday to Friday core hours, however the job description reflects a seven day service in case of changes to service need.
Car Driver essential
To be an integral part of the Out of Hospital Service.
To effectively manage a caseload of patients as part of a multudisciplinary team (MDT), providing specialist and evidence based assessment and interventions to patients in both a stable and acute phase of their condition, ensuring the physical, psychosocial, behavioral, perceptual, cognitive, sensory and environmental needs of patients, are addressed.
Utilising specialist knowledge and clinical reasoning, to plan and provide clinical interventions in consultation with other colleagues in the multidisciplinary team and to work in a range of settings as appropriate (e.g. patients home, work environment or other community setting)
To adopt a patient centred and sensitive approach to therapy, collaborating with patients (and/or carer(s) where appropriate) in all aspects of the therapy process (assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, reporting)
To utilise individual and/or group work skills as appropriate in order to achieve agreed therapeutic goals.
To have a high level of knowledge of a variety of conditions including neurological, orthopaedic, musculoskeletal, care of the elderly, respiratory and falls and specialist knowledge of at least one of these clinical areas
To work collaboratively with Social Services and third sector providers to ensure effective safe care.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
At CWPT we put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others. We have an extensive wellbeing package to support our staff both in and out of work and we offer generous annual leave entitlement. With excellent training and development opportunities, we believe in growing our talent to be the best they can be and strive to promote from within the organisation. We listen to the feedback of our staff and service users, to ensure everyone has a voice and is recognised and valued for their contribution.
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.
To provide specialist occupational therapy assessment, treatment and review of patients with a wide variety of conditions including neurological, orthopaedic, musculoskeletal, care of the elderly, respiratory and falls, to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, contribute to effective admission avoidance and support patients with complex health care needs. This will be for patients predominantly in their place of residence, but will include clinic and other settings.
To provide advice and guidance to others, patients, carers and staff working in health and social care.
To support professional development of the staff within the Out of Hospital Service and other services as appropriate.
To support and contribute toward service development and meeting Key Performance Indicators.
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For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
