This Occupational Therapist post sits in the North team of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust's Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service, covering Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham. The work centres on assessing and case-managing patients and carers, planning care that keeps people in their own homes, and supporting early discharge from hospital and end-of-life care. The post is part of a multi-disciplinary community team that responds quickly to people in crisis and allocates workloads to colleagues. Applicants need HCPC registration as an occupational therapist and a valid driving licence.
What the job involves
- Provide triage, specialist assessment, review, case management and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
- Plan programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
- Provide expert interventions and rehabilitation to help patients stay at home and to support early discharge and end-of-life care
- Allocate workloads to members of the RRIC team
- Work with a range of professionals to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner
- Demonstrate professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning and co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery
- Support the development of clinical pathways
Qualifications
- Degree or diploma in occupational therapy
- Relevant post-graduate clinical training, for example in elderly care, long-term conditions, respiratory and cardiac disease, trauma, orthopaedics or end of life
- Recent continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration as an occupational therapist
Experience
- Pre- or post-registration placements in care of the elderly, orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory, palliative care or long-term conditions
- In-depth experience of working within a multi-agency or multi-disciplinary team
Skills & knowledge
- Profession-specific clinical assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation skills
- Ability to motivate staff
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-awareness
- Presentation skills
Checks & eligibility
- Valid and current driving licence and access to a car to travel across Buckinghamshire
Nice to have
- Two years' post-registration experience in a community or in-patient setting
- Ability to manage complex cases
- Experience of day-to-day staff management, such as case allocation to healthcare assistants
- Experience of electronic clinical systems
- Experience of participating in research or audit projects
- Experience of working with the single assessment process
- Report writing skills
- Knowledge of the legal requirements for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity
What’s offered
- Learning and development opportunities to support career progression
- Flexible and agile working
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- NHS pension
- Access to NHS discount schemes
- Health and wellbeing services
- Secondment option for internal applicants
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