Senior Occupational Therapist/ Physiotherapist

Job overview

Come and join the expanding REACT (Rapid Emergency Assessment and Care Team) working in our Emergency Department front door areas, as an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist.

The successful candidate will provide very high quality assessments in order to establish robust and swift rehabilitation and discharge plans for the patients within the Front door footprint, predominantly to enable admission avoidance and return to the community with support from our expansive community services.

The  successful candidates will work very closely with the Medical and Nursing colleagues, Discharge Co-ordinators, Hospital Social Workers, Speech and Language Therapists and Dieticians.

This is a very friendly, supportive and dynamic trust  with regular integrated individual supervision and training, appraisal, CPD to support professional development.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake assessments of patients with complex and diverse presentations taking into account their social needs outside of hospital.
• To undertake advanced, comprehensive, and where applicable, standardised assessments in the clinical areas stated.
• To participate within simple and complex rehabilitation and contribute to its function.
• To use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence based practice to determine discharge and treatment plans using a wide range of treatment skills and knowledge of community service options.
• To analyse and interpret clinical and non-clinical information to form an accurate plan for a wide range of conditions, with guidance from Therapists within the team and the MDT when appropriate.

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.

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