Lead Occupational Therapist for Care Homes in Sutton

Job overview

The Care Home Support Team provides treatment and care for a wide range of healthcare needs for residents in Care Homes within the London Borough of Sutton. We pride ourselves on having a highly dedicated team and offer a stimulating dynamic working environment with a wide range of staff benefits and development opportunities. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Our vision is to promote independence and health; delivering a high quality excellent coordinated care that is patient centred and to provide care within the heart of the patient’s community. This is achieved through leadership, clinical excellence, self-care and personalisation for our patients care.

Main duties of the job

Sutton Community Health and Care is looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and innovative Band 7 Occupational Therapist with experience in Health and Social Care to complement our Care Home Support team. This role aims to support the review of resident’s mobility regarding activities of daily living, with the formulation of robust plans to support the resident maintaining levels of independence where able.

• To have clinical responsibility for assessment and treatment planning for people referred into the service
• Will be required to work autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary care team
• The clinical caseload will comprise of adult clients with physical and cognitive difficulties within the community and/or bed-based settings
• To provide supervision and leadership to other therapists and care home assistants within the team
• To assist in the overall development and management of Occupational Therapy across the service
• To collaborate with colleagues across own and other community teams, acute teams, GPs, social services and voluntary sector to optimise patients’ journey, care, wellbeing and outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.