Job summaryWe are seeking an experienced and innovative Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our existing community Frailty Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapists working in our East PCN.
The post-holder will work as part of our multi-disciplinary PCN Wellbeing Team, which includes two other Frailty Occupational Therapists, Social Prescribers, a Health and Wellbeing Coach and Safeguarding Care Coordinators.
This role is an extended scope, advanced practice role working in the community with people in their own homes. The purpose of the role is to provide advanced Occupational Therapy clinical assessments, interventions and planning. This includes advanced care planning discussions. Liaising closely with the MDT including the GPs at the surgeries to facilitate and support these assessments. To proactively manage frailty and ageing well in the community, reducing un-necessary hospital admissions and supporting individuals to achieve the best possible quality of life.
We look forward to welcoming you to our small but highly committed team.
Informal discussions prior to application are welcome.
Main duties of the jobTo undertake comprehensive frailty assessments from an advanced clinical Occupational Therapy perspective. Delivering specialist Occupational Therapy interventions to support independence, function, safety and quality of life.
Deliver person centred, specialist Occupational Therapy intervention and goal planning, working collaboratively with the person, their support network, GPs and the wider MDT to improve patient outcomes.
Identifying risks, proactive planning and strategies to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions in collaboration with the wider MDT.
Facilitation and proactive engagement in Occupational Therapy practice placement education.
Car driver essential to role.
See job description for further details.
About usWye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.Job responsibilitiesTo view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.
Person SpecificationEducation & QualificationsEssential- Professional Qualification to degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Significant post graduate experience and CPD relevant to role / Specialist courses (or equivalent experience)
- Evidence of or willingness to undertake further training at Masters level
Desirable- Leadership/Management qualification
Skills, Knowledge & AbilitiesEssential- Broad and specialist knowledge of relevant patient conditions and therapy interventions
- Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
- Demonstration of knowledge of core and highly specialist Therapy skills
- Broad, developed and advanced knowledge of relevant conditions and therapy interventions
- Extensive evidence of ongoing CPD in relevant area
- Experience of multi-disciplinary communication, assessments and record keeping
- Able to make independent, sound, advanced clinical decisions and problem solve
- Able to manage and facilitate others in dealing with busy case load and prioritise
- Ability to work autonomously using highly specialist knowledge, skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries
ExperienceEssential- Extensive NHS or equivalent experience in specialist area e.g. community or community services
- Experience of team leadership, management and positive role modelling
- Student practice placement educator and experience of having students
- Experience of using/fitting adaptive equipment
- Supervisory experience
Personal AttributesEssential- Able to maintain confidentiality and professionalism within the environment that they are working
- Able to demonstrate awareness of own limitations and need to ask for help
- Evidence of ability to communicate effectively including difficult conversations
- Committed to personal and team development
- Ability to adapt and demonstrate flexibility in changing service needs
- Is dynamic and proactive
- Shows evidence of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
- Reliable
Other FactorsEssential- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
- Able to meet physical & moving and handling requirements of post. i.e. re-positioning of a patient, use of moving & handling equipment, approved manual physical movement practices of patient
- Able to deal sensitively and safely with blood and bodily fluids
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.Applicants must have current UK professional registration. 
