RRIC Community Practitioner - Occupational Therapist

Job overview

RRIC: join our team

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service works across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Aylesbury Team

• Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You will also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
• Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
• Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
• Who are you? If you are committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team

Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission is recommended.

Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Your main duties include:

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers using your OT skills and experience
• Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
• Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team
• Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.Support the development of clinical pathway

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.