Specialist Occupational Therapist (Integrated Care Therapy)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of Sheffield community based Integrated Care Team-Therapy, based in the South of the city at Lightwood House. This is a city-wide service, operating 8.30 am - 6 pm, 7 days a week (including Bank Holidays).

You will have experience in treating older adults supporting them to remain independent in their own homes and be passionate about patient centred care and delivering what matters to the person ,enabled by developing a close network of peers across sectors at neighbourhood level.

The service works to facilitate early discharge of patients from hospital and supports patients at home to prevent unnecessary hospital admission.

The successful candidate will provide community-based therapy for patients with a variety of conditions including neurological, orthopaedic, frailty, musculoskeletal and anxiety issues.

This post will be based within a well-established, multi-disciplinary team consisting of: Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Specialist/Senior Therapy Assistants, Administrative staff and with access to mental health nurses .

The successful candidate will be supported to deliver the best care via a robust and caring leadership team with a compassionate and collaborative focus.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will carry out generic Occupational Therapy assessments.

This will include planning and delivering treatment programmes for patients in their own homes including residential care settings.

The role will involve working closely with therapy assistants; contributing to their training and development and facilitating them to provide care and rehabilitation to a designated caseload.

The role also involves transporting, providing, ordering and fitting of equipment and onward referral to other health and social care services.

The role will support student placements and will enable Occupational therapy students to understand the value of community integrated care.

The role will support the service as needed with specific audits and research enabling the service to improve its service offer to the people of Sheffield.

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

The role is supported by a band 7 duty lead and a band 7 clinical specialist Occupational therapist ensuring support with day to day issues and complex clinical situations.

The team is a cohesive, hard working and fun team to work within .A full induction programme will be in place allowing you to develop relationships with all your team.

There will be opportunities to develop both your clinical and leadership skills via your personal development plan with support from your leadership team.