B6 Senior Occupational Therapist Frailty

Job overview

Are you a highly motivated, experienced and committed  Occupational Therapist (OT) with a passion for working with older patients and those with frailty? Then come and join the Older Person's Therapy Team at Salisbury District Hospital.

The successful applicant will be responsible for the delivery of high quality, patient-centred care on our award winning Acute Frailty unit (AFU) The unit provides specialist holistic assessment, care and treatment for frail patients in line with Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)  principles. Working with the Multi Disciplinary team, you will ensure rapid assessment, care and discharge planning to enable short lengths of stay, efficient flow and  prevent hospital related deconditioning.

You will also provide senior OT support to our new older person's ward which has been designed to cater for the complex needs of older people in a state of the art, dementia friendly environment.

The team also cover 2 other older person's wards, a Haematology ward and Falls Clinic. All of which will benefit from your skills, experience. and senior support.

The successful applicant will become an integral part of a kind, friendly and hardworking  team and will join our senior leadership team to help to lead, design and develop the service of the future.

** Please note that the job vacancy will close early if we receive a high volume of applications **

Main duties of the job

The role will involve:

• Early assessment and collection of social and collateral social history
• Development of care and manual handling plans
• Prescription and provision of equipment
• Mental Capacity and Best Interest Decisions
• Enabling the very best of End Of Life Care at home if this is the patient's wish
• Teaching and supervision of Junior members of staff and OT students
• Supporting the leadership team in the day to day running of the service

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.