Band 6 Occupational Therapist

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Full time
Location: Ormskirk
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Job offered by: NHS
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We have an exciting opportunity for a thoughtful and proactive Occupational Therapist to play an integral role within our Therapy Services which includes Adult Community Rehabilitation encompassing GP referrals and hospital discharges, Falls Prevention, Intermediate Care, Neurological Rehab, and Urgent Rapid Response. As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you will take responsibility, using a case management approach to work with the patient, family, carer, and the patient's GP to manage/stabilise the patients delivering a collaborative approach for avoidable hospital admissions. The aim of our service is to improve independence, health, and wellbeing by supporting people in their home environment and local community. The service provides non-timed limited interventions which are goals led. The purpose of this role is to provide specialist person-centred assessment, rehabilitation, and management for people with various therapy needs including the promotion of health and prevention of secondary complications. Patients are provided with a service in a variety of settings appropriate to their needs i.e. own homes, residential settings, and outpatient clinics across the West Lancashire area. This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder

must hold a valid UK driving license and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively. Main duties of the job

To provide safe, effective, and efficient interventions working with all relevant services (internal and external) to ensure patient/carer needs are met as identified by assessment. To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Be responsible for a clinical caseload working within a multidisciplinary team ensuring service users receive optimum level of rehabilitation within available resources. To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload. To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical, and clinical reasoning skills. To assess for and organise the provision of necessary and appropriate minor adaptations and major adaptations and conduct reviews of provision and safety checks as appropriate. To formulate individualised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines, and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme. To demonstrate equipment and ensure patients/clients families, carers, and support workers are confident in the safe and correct use of equipment and adaptations at the time of issue. Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities. About us

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. To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2 Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Membership of

My Reward Hub , giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 Free tea, coffee, and milk

at your base location Person Specification

General Requirements

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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.

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