Specialist Occupational Therapist
Are you looking for the next step in your career to consolidate your clinical knowledge and develop your leadership skills? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work with Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service. We are looking for an experienced and well organised individual with a passion for promoting independence, driving a strength\-based approach and providing therapy interventions in a person's own home or discharge to assess unit in line with a home first approach.
We have been on an exciting journey to transform the intermediate care services within Halton and have brought together health and social care into a unified integrated team. We are excited to welcome you to join our friendly team where you will have the opportunity to work across all areas of the service including:
Single Point of Access
Community Rapid Response / Frailty Team
Reablement Team
Intermediate Care Unit
You will work as part of a large multidisciplinary team that includes: GP’s, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Therapy and Nursing Assistants, Dietician, Care Support Workers and Administrators.
The HICAF Service operates a 7 day service, currently covering the hours of 8am to 8pm, including bank holidays and weekends. You will be expected to work shifts to cover some of the weekends and bank holiday.
Our patients are at the heart of everything we do! We look for people who are committed to being part of a health and social care team that delivers excellent care and support to our patients. To help us achieve this, we expect you to hold responsibility for your own caseload, perform patient therapy assessments, provide a diagnosis, develop, implement and evaluate individualised holistic treatment programmes, and deliver a high standard of evidence\-based care.
In all areas, you will work in a multi\-disciplinary team, follow appropriate pathways of care, liaising with and referring to other agencies as appropriate.
We expect you to be hardworking, motivated with excellent clinical, communication, organisational and time management skills. A flexible approach to day\-to\-day tasks is essential, in order to meet the demands of the service. You will also be expected to travel across Halton, in line with service needs, so access to transport is essential
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you will contribute to the clinical supervision of students and junior staff. You will participate in service improvement projects, audits, in service training, and work collaboratively with our hospital and community colleagues to ensure our patients receive outstanding care.
Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation
Our mission is to be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other
Our vision is to be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn
Our approach to healthcare is founded on our four core values:
- Kind – we are caring, supporting and respectful to everyone
- Open – we are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
- Fair – we listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
- One team – we work well together and with our communities
We are also proud to be an Armed Forces Friendly organisation and welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists and families.
Working at NCM means becoming part of a dedicated team of clinical and support staff who are passionate about keeping people well and supporting wellbeing. If you share our values and are motivated by making a difference for our patients, we'd be delighted to receive your application.
We offer a structured induction program. Career progression support provided through individual job plan, core skills training, mentoring , regular supervision, CPD sessions to become skilled specialist clinicians with a good range of knowledge and hands on experience.
Our service supports team’s health and wellbeing through activities and accommodate flexible working.
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
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