Advanced Occupational Therapist

Job overview

An Exciting opportunity is now available At the Provider Collaborative ACAH community Enhanced Falls service for an enthusiastic forward thinking Occupational therapist to work in a senior decision making role within ACAH 2hr UCR Urgent Community Response Service

This post sits with the UHNM ACAH team but working with the UHNM/MPFT therapies team.

The Enhanced fall service occupational therapist will work alongside an ACAH Acute Care Practitioner responding to falls and sick patients in the community, providing urgent Holistic assessment of mostly unwell elderly patients at home.

The successful candidate will have previous NHS & experience working in emergency portals/community services or have a range of transferable skills including assessing falls patients. The role will have flexible 7 day working. Falls service operational service times would be currently from 0900 to 2000hrs.

We are keen to meet dynamic, enthusiastic and highly motivated Occupational Therapists interested in working in our supportive admission avoidance team providing the highest standards of care to keep our frail patients safe in their own homes.

Our focus is reduction of ED attendances and safe admission avoidance, acute/subacute interventions to improve functional outcomes & specialist falls assessment and falls prevention.

Applicants will need to hold a full driving licence as this is required for the role. A vehicle is provided to enable all necessary equipment to be carried by the team.

Main duties of the job

This role works autonomously as a specialised practitioner managing the clinical delivery of care within Acute Care at Home. The Advanced Therapists lead and organise the resources available to meet service standards and workload demands within Acute Care at Home Enhanced Falls

This post may encounter patients that include the critically ill, unconscious, unstable, neurological, acute and chronic respiratory, multi pathology / complex patients, cognitively and perceptually impaired

Working for our organisation

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see full Job Description and Person Specification attached

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Person specification

Essential Qualifications

• • Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• • Registered with HCPC
• • Portfolio of personal and professional development
• • Post holder committed to working at masters level e.g. has attended courses accreditied at masters/post graduate level

• • Working towards a higher qualification relevant to speciality e.g. Master’s degree

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

• • Post graduate (NHS) experience with considerable experienced in speciality area
• • Experience of working as a Senior Occupational therapist within the speciality area
• • Experience of teaching students, staff and other professional groups
• • Experience of supporting/supervising staff
• • Proven leadership and management skills
• • Trained Clinical Educator
• • Ability to liaise with other professionals/agencies
• • Knowledge of audit and research
• • Knowledge of interdisciplinary working
• • Articulate, able to undertake presentations and tutorials
• • Demonstrate critical appraisal skills
• • Ability to prioritise & manage time
• • Ability to develop different approaches to patient care
• • Ability to develop credibility rapport and rapport with colleagues
• • Good communication skills

• • Experience gained within an acute setting
• • Involvement in audit/research
• • Evidence of Project Work

Personal Qualities

• • Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning and continuous improvement
• • Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
• • Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
• • Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites

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4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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