Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Job Title: Occupational Therapist

Grade: Band 6

Trust: Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Wigan Borough Community

Hours: 37.5 hours per week Mon - Fri 08:00-16:00 or 08:30-16:30

End Date: 3/05/2024

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are currently seeking organised and motivated candidates to fulfil Band 6 Occupational Therapist opportunities within the community team across Wigan borough under a long-term placement contract. Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills looking to embark on a new opportunity within the NHS? If so, we would like to hear from you today!

The post holder will need to have previous NHS experience working within an integrated community team and be happy working as part of a team delivering Occupational Therapy in a community setting. They must be able to demonstrate initiative and prioritise a complex workload whilst working both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team.

High levels of both written and oral communication are essential to this post with the ability to deliver or discuss difficult diagnosis and prognosis with tact, empathy, managing distressed or aggressive patients or carers/relatives. The post holder must be able to communicate accurate and sensitive information to patients, carers, and relatives as well as within their own team & colleagues.

Role Details:

• To complete functional assessment of the individual in acute and community settings, in order to identify barriers to returning to their usually place of residence.
• To plan and implement effective interventions, work closely with community services, to overcome identified functional barriers while effectively managing risk.
• Championing a Home First approach to care planning by engaging in clinically reasoned, patient centred, positive risk taking and by ensuring interventions take pace in the most appropriate setting.
• To act as a source of knowledge on the management of a varied range of conditions providing an advisory service to patients, relatives, healthcare professionals and social care.
• To provide an evidenced based assessment and treatment of patients who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, provide treatment and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
• To assist the Team Leader in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the intermediate service provided to on a day-to-day basis.
• Function as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team and the integrated team within Health and Social Care.
• To manage a defined caseload using evidence based/client centered principles to access, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
• To regularly supervise students on practice placement.
• To provide leadership and clinical supervision for other junior staff as delegated by supervisor.
• To support team leads in the development and delivery of in service training for MDT colleagues.
• To consider and support service development alongside senior colleagues including data collection, audits, service review etc.
• Responsible for providing therapy intervention to patients in a defined caseload using evidence based/client centered principles to access, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

The Successful Candidate Will:

• Hold a Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• Be HCPC registered
• Have previous NHS experience working within an integrated community team
• Post registration experience in rehabilitation and condition management
• Full, UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
• Practice in accordance with the professional, ethical, and legal codes of the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Trust and NHS protocols and guidelines
• Experience of the administration and interpretation of commonly used standardised cognitive assessments.

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Why NHS Professionals?

We value your skills, dedication, and commitment in supporting your local Trust and the NHS. We believe together we continue to deliver world-class healthcare service to our patients.

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -

· Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!

· First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England

· Dedicated consultants

· Flexible working options

· Free DBS and free training

· Build holiday allowance

· Stakeholder pension scheme