Band 6 Occupational Therapist-Pathways Team

Are you passionate about making a genuine difference to peoples lives?

Due to the current post holders promotion, we have an opportunity for an occupational therapist to join our in-patient team, based at Glastonbury Care Home and West Mendip Hospital.

You would be a valued member, in a friendly multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, assistant practitioners, rehab assistants, social workers, pharmacy technicians, a discharge facilitator and others.

Your professional supervision, includes from the team leader who is an experienced occupational therapist, and works within the units.

Links with other occupational therapists within the intermediate care service are being developed, and profession specific peer supervision is now available

Full time, but part time working and job share considered. Part agile, flexible working, and development posts and secondments also considered., To provide high quality patient centred care and specialist rehabilitation to adults referred to the Intermediate Care Bedded Pathway Service.

Ideally a car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to transport with appropriate business insurance in order to travel throughout the Trust, to meet the needs of the service

In this post, you will be supported to

Develop, use and be creative with your OT skills to work holistically and look deeper than the original diagnosis,

Connect with, assess and treat patients who may have diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.

Work with patients, to set personalised goals and individual treatment programmes.

Work with patients, their families and the MDT to plan and implement discharge .

Organise, prioritise and plan your own caseload.

Clinically and managerially supervise other members of the team.

Essential

• HCPC Registration


• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses


Desirable

Membership of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team


• willingness to work in other intermediate care locations


• willingness to work weekends and bank holidays when requested


Desirable

• Experience in a Community Hospital setting


• experience of service development, willingness to work in other intermediate care locationswillingness to work weekends and bank holidays when requested
  
  As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.


Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.

Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan there is truly something for everyone!