Specialist Occupational Therapist - Hospital@Home Therapy Team

Job overview

Exciting Development opportunity with the dynamic Hospital at Home Therapy Team.

There will be an opportunity to gain specialist Occupational Therapy Band 6 competencies within community urgent response. Hospital at home therapy team work as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside physiotherapists, Therapy Assistant practitioners, Advanced Clinical practitioners, Hospital at Home nursing. Acute hospital discharge teams, Emergency department, Specialist palliative care team and Community Therapy Neighbourhood teams.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking Occupational Therapist with a keen interest in developing their specialist knowledge, working closely with our Urgent response colleagues with aim of preventing hospital admissions and facilitating early discharges from hospital.

You will be offered regular formal and informal supervision with training opportunities to support your development. The hospital at home therapy team have a high patient satisfaction rate with excellent feedback.

Main duties of the job

To work within the Integrated Community Therapy Team,  providing   specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.  To liaise with other health & social care professionals, to enable people to continue living in/to return to their homes in the community following illness or disability. To contribute to the ethos of person-centred care, care closer to home and self-management, by promoting the philosophy of Occupational Therapy within the team.

Aim to develop optimum levels of function and independence in the physical, emotional and social aspects of life to prevent inappropriate admission to hospital and facilitate timely and appropriate discharge from the acute sector utilising the discharge to assess pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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