Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We here at BHFT are looking for an Occupational Therapist to work within the Care Home Support Team. This unique role will allow you to work on a Monday to Friday basis between normal office hours, using your clinical expertise to train and develop care home staff across East Berkshire. Unlike your normal clinical role, you will undertake visits to care homes across East Berkshire to deliver in person training and other tasks to support care homes.

You will work with the Integrated Care Board, Care Homes and Local Authorities to ensure that our care home staff are delivering an enhanced and top tier service to its residents.

If this fantastic opportunity appeals to you, we would love to have an application from you. We are open to offering this 22.5 hour post as a 9-12 month fixed term post.

Main duties of the job

• To work in partnership with care homes to develop pro-active training/educating advisory service that aims to improve the health, well-being, and independence of all care home residents.

• Identify the specific skills and training requirements for each care home and deliver and record a tailored training programme

• Attend and contribute to clinical/care homes MDT and cluster meetings where appropriate.

• Share expert knowledge and skills with the care homes to enhance their skills.

• To independently manage a small caseload of complex cases relating to mobility, pressure, and postural care and often in combination with communication, challenging, cognitive and/or perceptual difficulties.

• Formulate individualised action plans based on the assessment findings and clinical reasoning.

• Work as a senior practitioner and be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of your own work.

• Complete support visits to care homes and offer advice and support

• Continue working alongside local authorities to support those homes rated red or amber and those with residents who have frequent hospital admissions.

• Signpost and support with making direct referrals on to other community services or professions as required

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The  “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:

• Registered Occupational Therapist

• Experience in educating and mentoring others

• Strong communication and people skills

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.