Occupational Therapist- Discharge to Assess Services and Intermediate Care at Home The Discharge to Assess team is an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport and surrounding areas. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, they will facilitate timely discharges from acute hospital sites and provide assessment and support planning to meet a person’s needs in the community. The post holder will provide and/or arrange appropriate support interventions in the community via Discharge to Assess collaboratively working closely with colleagues across all sectors. Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in a bed based facility. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries. This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport. We are looking for highly motivated, forward thinking and experienced clinicians with a specialist interest in frailty who will work alongside an integrated Multidisciplinary Team to improve flow and quality of the patient's journey. You must have excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to work autonomously, whilst being flexible and adaptable to supporting the service leads in developing and changing the service as it evolves. You will be part of an integrated therapy team and we have a strong commitment to support all staff members with CPD opportunities. We offer regular supervision and annual appraisal with a regular in-service training programme. The post requires a commitment to weekend working which is underpinned by teaching and a competency programme. The post requires working hours over a 7 day service and fulfilling the service needs until 9pm. We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you: Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays NHS pension scheme membership Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further NHS Staff discounts Cycle to work scheme Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel Henderson Job title: Band 7 Team Lead- Occupational Thearpist Email address: rachel.henderson@stockport.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0161835 6694 Discharge To Assess Team Leads Justine Barg Lauren Nelson Gabriella Catania Tel 0161 835 6694