Islington Community Occupational Therapist Urgent Response

The role of the Occupational Therapist is to assess and treat community patients in their own homes within the Islington borough as part of an urgent community response team whose objectives are to support admission avoidance and hospital discharges. The post holder will have the opportunity to work with the rapid response and virtual ward teams as part of the larger UCRT team. The post holder will receive a thorough induction and regular supervision.

Come and join our friendly and supportive community team and receive:

• Golden handshake of £1,000 after a year in post for external candidates.
• A refer a friend scheme where both WH referrer and external new starter receive £250 after 3 months and a further £250 each after the new starter has been in post for a year.

The successful candidate will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team within the Urgent Community Response Team. The post holder will provide a comprehensive and high-quality OT service to patients with simple to complex needs. The post holder will be actively involved in team and service developments with the support of line manager. To provide supervision to band 5 OT(s), Rehabilitation Assistants and OT students as required. To be actively involved in Continuing Professional Development. To be involved in caseload management with varied patients who have mobility, musculoskeletal, cognitive and frailty presentations. Community visits to clients may be made on foot, public transport, motorcycle, bicycle or car. Office base is 222 Upper Street, N1 1XR.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Attlesey, Job title: Clinical Lead OT, Email address: h.attlesey@nhs.net, Telephone number: 07824 837107.