Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist - Kenrick

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Main area: Adult Community Services

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59

Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation? Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK. Look no further, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Intervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.

Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has delivered in the last 12 months: 77,000 fewer acute bed days used, 19,000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8 million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

Main duties of the job:

• You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, premature admission to long-term residential care and facilitating early hospital discharge.
• A real opportunity to work within the self-motivated and aspirational MDT daily, we are currently looking for someone to dynamically lead and promote a culture of home first rehabilitation.
• Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team.
• You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.
• The post holder will act as a practitioner for Occupational Therapy within the Adults Community Services Division.
• The post holder will ensure access to urgent and routine Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention, provide and monitor treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral on to alternative services as appropriate.
• They will work in partnership with patients, carers and other health and social care agencies to promote independence and develop individual plans of care relevant to person needs.

Qualifications/Training:

• Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy.
• Current Health and Care Professions Council registration.
• Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.

Experience:

• Experience of working in a Multi-Disciplinary team.
• Relevant rehabilitation experience for a variety of patients in a community setting.
• Experience of working with other agencies.
• Proven Supervisory skills.
• Ability to plan and delegate daily workload.
• Ability to demonstrate and share knowledge and application of up to date evidence-based clinical trends and practices within the field of occupational therapy.

Skills/Knowledge:

• Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment and treatment approaches for the patient group.
• Demonstrates a problem-solving approach.
• IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
• Knowledge and application of clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice.
• Understanding and application of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy code of Professional Conduct.
• Knowledge and application of Health and Safety issues and their relevance in the Community.
• Ability to administer and interpret standardised assessments/outcome measures.
• Ability to act as mentor/supervisor to junior staff and students on placement.
• Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults.
• Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
• Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions.

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long-term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification.

BCHC is an advocate of diversity and strives to mirror the community we serve as much possible. We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements.
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers.
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees.
• Flexible working where possible.