Band 6 Early Intervention Occupational Therapist - Kenrick in Birmingham

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Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation? Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Birmingham is a cosmopolitan city with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, open spaces, and strong network links to the rest of the UK. 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 in the last 12 months has delivered: 77,000 fewer acute bed days used, 19,000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system, with an overall impact of £25.8 million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in health and social care developments.

Six health and social care organisations joined forces to deliver this integrated service. Partners include Birmingham City Council, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, Birmingham and Solihull CCG, and Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG.

You will join a community team amid one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, aimed at preventing avoidable hospital admissions, premature residential care admissions, and facilitating early hospital discharge, while enjoying Birmingham as a fantastic place to work and live.

A real opportunity to work within a self-motivated and aspirational MDT, leading a culture of home-first rehabilitation so people are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes. You will work multi-professionally, complete assessments and interventions, and deliver high-quality interventions to patients in their homes and other community settings.

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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. We deliver over 100 clinical services in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities, including services for children, young people, parents and families, adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We are committed to integrated, personalised care rooted in our local communities and strive for outstanding, integrated care as a key NHS provider in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust focused on best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

A person who communicates well, is flexible, and has existing, or a willingness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for “trusted assessor” principles will be at an advantage in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, and to drive and lead service development projects and quality patient care.

The post holder will act as a practitioner for Occupational Therapy within the Adults Community Services Division. They will ensure access to urgent and routine Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions, provide and monitor treatment programmes at home, and ensure safe discharge or referral 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 care plans relevant to person needs.

We run an Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career. HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles. The post holder may be required to work shifts over 7 days per week in line with service delivery.

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 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 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.
• Aware of safeguarding vulnerable adults legislation.
• Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
• Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions.