Senior Occupational Therapist- Intermediate Care
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We are currently looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist to join our Intermediate Care Team in Peterborough.
If you are looking for a new challenge, are dynamic, flexible and enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team making a difference in our community then you are the right person for us.
The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, and be responsible for ensuring that patients get the best care possible in their own homes, maximising potential to regain independence in our short stay service.
Successful applicants will be expected to assist in the development of the integrated care workers to support the clinical delivery of the service and proactively work alongside the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure patient flow and safety.
* To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
* To be responsible for patients on the shared caseloads.
* To undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
* To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate therapy interventions, provide equipment and rehabilitation programmes.
* To take a holistic approach to all therapeutic interventions, working across professional boundaries at times.
* To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
* To provide support and education to peers, junior staff, non-registered staff, and students.
* To supervise and support education of junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensure that Band 5 Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, and Integrated Care Workers deliver high quality patient care.
* To be accountable for a delegated task and activities undertaken by Band 5 Therapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, and Integrated Support Workers.
* To prioritise all patients according to clinical need and to allocate or signpost tasks appropriately.
To provide resilience and cover to other locality teams as required due to operational demands and system pressures.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caitlin Kennedy Job title: Intermediate Care Clinical Team Lead (North) Email address: Caitlin.kennedy@cpft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07889159800
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