Package Description
Are you a motivated Occupational Therapist looking to make a real difference within your local community? HCRG Care Group is looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team in Calne Family Health Centre.

The Integrated Neighbourhood team is a community-based service which supports and works with people, either in their own home or in Residential or Nursing Homes.

The aim of the service is to maximise and maintain independence based on patients identified needs through rehabilitation. Following an initial assessment and, in consultation with the service user, a care plan and rehabilitation programme is drawn up.

As our services transform, there may be times you will be expected to support both nursing and therapy in the delivery of care, within an appropriate scope or practice and following relevant on-the-job training. Base: Calne Family Health Centre, SN11 8BN

This is a part-time role working 30 hours per week.

For any enquires please contact Sophie.Bird@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main Responsibilities:

• To carry out comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessments, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation for patients with diverse presentations and a range of physical, psychological and social needs, using advanced clinical reasoning and person-centred goals.
• Focus on admission avoidance, planned rehabilitation and facilitating timely hospital discharge through effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency working.
• To hold responsibility for a complex caseload and manage capacity effectively, prioritising workload in response to changing patient and service needs.
• To provide an evidence-based Occupational Therapy service of a high standard through comprehensive assessment, reassessment, care planning, rehabilitation, therapeutic intervention and discharge planning.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

The ideal candidate will have
Essential:

• BSc/BSc (Hons) and or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with HCPC
• Post registration qualification in relevant area of clinical practice
• Delivering patient focused care
• Excellent inter-professional communication
• Teaching (both professionals, students and patient/carers) and holds recognised Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice qualification
• Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care and its organisation
• Demonstrate professional development and experience
• Multi-disciplinary working across a range of agencies/professional groups
• Providing evidence-based practice through clinical audit
• Assessment and care planning with a particular focus on complex discharge planning
• Evidence of on-going personal development
• Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups
• Experience of gathering and interpreting information to shape service development
• Typing/data inputting skills to use computerised system for accessing patient information
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and appropriate lifting aids
• Dealing with bad news ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues. Able to support and facilitate staff in dealing with these situations
• Required to challenge and lead practice
• Ability to manually handle patients and equipment

Desirable:

• Evidence of inpatient experience as a qualified therapist

Package Description
As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).