Overview
A new and exciting position has become available to work across the Hospital to Home Therapy Team and the Department for Older People’s Medicine Inpatient Therapy Team at Aintree Hospital as part of a static internal rotation. Timing of the rotation will coincide with external rotations across LUHFT.
Hospital to Home Therapy Team (H2H)
The H2H team is made up of a mixture of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. The team accepts referrals from the therapy inpatient teams across Aintree to carry out Discharge to Assess, Same Day/Next day follow up visits and Environmental visits in patients’ own homes.
Older People’s Inpatient Therapy Team (DMOPS)
The DMOPS team is made up of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. The team covers three inpatient wards as well as supporting an outpatient falls clinic. You will work closely with the AHP team and the wider MDT covering a DMOPS caseload, supporting patient discharges by carrying out vital OT assessments and interventions. There may also be opportunity to support the falls clinic by completing post‑falls assessments in patients’ own homes.
Responsibilities
* Provide key OT assessment and treatment plans for patients in an acute inpatient and community setting.
* Carry out discharge to assess, complex follow‑up visits and environmental visits.
* Manage designated caseload with complex needs using evidence‑based/client‑centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
* Maintain records that fulfil legal requirements.
* Supervise B5 OT’s, B4 or B3 staff and OT students.
* Provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and performance reviews.
* Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of both services.
* Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust OT service.
Qualifications
* Suitable for an Occupational Therapist with experience working both in acute inpatient settings and in the community.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Helen Thomas-Marshall
Job title: Therapy Lead
Email address: Helen.Thomas-Marshall@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0151 529 3268
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