Band 5 Occupational Therapist in London

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team at Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre, SP1 3NR. This role offers a varied and rewarding caseload, enabling you to use your clinical expertise to deliver person‐centred, evidence‐based occupational therapy interventions across the community. As an Occupational Therapist, you will provide assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or outpatient setting in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well‐being, within professional guidelines and protocols.

This is a full‐time role working 37.5 hours per week.

• Accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing occupational therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with support from specialist team members and the Team Leader.
• Undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.
• Avoid hospital admission wherever possible to reduce inpatient length of stay and ensure patients receive appropriate care in the most suitable setting.
• Keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• With support of a specialist nurse or therapist, accountable for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care plans, ensuring that care, needs and wishes of the individual are accurately documented in the clinical records.
• Support the Urgent Community Response relating to falls assessment, intervention, onward referral and signposting.
• Interpret situations, act and refer on appropriately.

• Diploma (Dip COT), BSc, BSc(Hons) or MSc OT.
• Registered as an OT with the Health Professional Council.
• Current, valid full driving licence.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice.
• Experience of applying research‐based information to practice.
• Assessment and care planning skills.
• Experience working with a multi‐disciplinary team.
• Experience within a range of patient/client care groups.
• Ability to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Ability to work flexibly and sensitively.
• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills.
• Competence in a wide range of occupational therapy skills.

• Teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
• Further qualifications relevant to the role.
• Awareness of recent Government Papers that may affect future clinical practice.
• Evidence of an innovative and flexible approach to care.

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, providing discounts on everyday purchases and cashback/voucher offers.
• Access to wages as they are earned to help cover emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face‐to‐face support for mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post‐trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, and career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through the 'Outstanding' Learning Enterprise team.
• An open, just culture encouraging you to implement ideas that help deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed by at least £100,000 of ring‐fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

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 child 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. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, providing facilities, environmental adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive as possible.

If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. Safeguarding and protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults is of utmost importance; we have policies and procedures to promote safeguarding and safer working practices, and every new team member undergoes a safer recruitment process, including disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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