Job Description

Band 7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist, Discharge to Assess and intermediate care team, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) - Wandsworth. Fulltime



Are you a Band 7 or an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist looking for an exciting, new challenge and a chance to take on greater responsibilities?



We are looking for a highly specialist, dynamic and motivated Occupational Therapist with excellent clinical skills and a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic community-based care. The person will join our group of AHP staff in a permanent role and supporting an MDT community therapy service.



Discharge to assess (D2A) and the intermediate care team is a 7 day a week community therapy/care assessment and rehabilitation team in Wandsworth. It provides therapy services to specific types of patients upon discharge from hospital and in the community. These patients are often more urgent and/or complex. The team supports the patient to ensure readmission is avoided. This involves risk management, disability management and rehabilitation.



The team sees a wide variety of conditions/pathologies and provides therapy in a holistic way using a wide variety of knowledge and skills. The team consists of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, rehabilitation assistants and health care assistants in a multidisciplinary team.



Main duties will include;



Experience of working within an intermediate care team



Work as a highly skilled senior practitioner with expert knowledge and work alongside clinical lead to develop the service



Providing highly specialist occupational therapy care to a community based caseload.



Carrying out robust triage of patients referred to the team to ensure their safety and optimal pathway allocation



Ability to provide leadership within the occupational therapy and wider team.



Experience of line management and supervising others. Supporting and deputising for the Clinical Lead and Operational manager of the service



Opportunities to take the lead on service improvement opportunities, develop your managerial skills and suggest and lead on audit and research projects and other teams in the intermediate care team



Highly motivated, passionate and enthusiastic team player with a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic care and evidence based interventions.



Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role

Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up)

Flexible working options

Annual travel card loan

Training, support and development in your career



To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits



Please refer to the job description, person specification and CLCH trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.