Band 6 Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting opportunity within our emerging Intermediate Care Team for a skilled and dedicated Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work in the Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and Swale areas of Kent with the responsibility to provide specialist assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic interventions for adult patients living in the community with complex and complicated care needs, referred into the service. In addition, you'll provide advice, support and education for patients and their families/carers, voluntary agencies and all those working with the patient regarding their medical condition and how this affects the person's lifestyle and environment in order to maintain relationships, roles and independence. This is a part-time position working 34 hours per week. There is some flexibility on how the 34 hours can be worked across Monday - Friday. A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential for this position.

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you'll be part of our valued Intermediate Care Team and Rapid Response Team, based at Sheppey Community Hospital. You will feel valued as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Main Responsibilities:

• Maintain the high standards of the department by contributing towards individual and service objectives.
• Provide clinical support and supervision to junior colleagues and offer training to students.
• Be able to work independently and as part of a Team, and to participate in innovation and service development of the pulmonary rehab service to benefit patients and colleagues.
• Complete complex holistic assessments in the management of patients with chronic respiratory conditions.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Have a HCPC registration
• Have a BSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Have knowledge of relevant national guidance and other relevant initiatives
• Have the ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams across health, social and voluntary sectors
• Have excellent communication skills
• Have motivation, adaptability and innovation skills
• Need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential for this position as it's community based and travel across Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley and Swale areas is required.

About The Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.