Occupational Therapist Community / NY Enablement / IMC Team lead
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We have an amazing opportunity to work differently to support our Craven Residents. The Team Leader for Enablement and IMC will work across community settings, predominantly within the Craven Area, but also supporting the wider Community Rehab Team as required. Providing support and leadership, along with existing team leaders, to lead and manage an integrated team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and support staff.
To enable Home First discharges from hospital settings and provide rehab services in our Craven Intermediate Care beds. The community rehab team provides specialist assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in intermediate care beds and in patients own homes. Blending boundaries and developing intermediate care roles with the Local authority. This role is key in facilitating safe and timely hospital discharges local hospitals. In conjunction with Craven Enablement services as well as ensuring IMC beds are used to best effect and are supported to ensure best use of resources.
Applicants will need excellent communication skills, a good understanding of the health care agenda and a vision for service development and growth.
To undertake the role of the Team Leader; managing, planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating therapy plans as part of this broad MDT. Deputising for the Service manager as required. Provide support and leadership, along with existing team leaders, to lead and manage an integrated team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and support staff. To ensure the team provides high quality assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to people in their own homes and IMC beds. To act as a source of expertise and provide an advisory service to other ANHSFT therapists and members of the MDT in the management of Home First and IMC patients. To lead in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the specialty who may have complex and chronic presentations, and determine clinical diagnosis and any therapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. To provide expert training and education for all grades of staff and other health professionals in the therapeutic management of community rehab patients. Provide effective student training and development. Provide a key role in partnership working with patients, carers, the MDT, bed managers and wider statutory, private and voluntary sector services.
Opportunities and benefits
* Opportunities to teach
* Further education opportunities
* Collaborative working across WYATT
* Flexible working opportunities
* Financial benefits / packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Nursery on the Acute Site
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing Benefits
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Staff network groups: Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network
Please see job advertisement, job description and person specification for more details of the role and information.
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