Occupational Therapist – Community Services (Band 5)

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Full time
Location: Skipton
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An Occupational Therapist uses their knowledge and skills of occupation to provide assessments and therapeutic activities for individual and/or groups of patients.

The post holder will: Provide a personalised intermediate care service to adults in their own home within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas. This also includes providing therapy support to patients in Castleberg Hospital. Perform occupational therapy assessment of patients with a diverse range of presentations and complicated physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis, develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme in conjunction with the rest of the team. Provide a key role in working in partnership with medical colleagues, multidisciplinary teams (MDT) and carers to set realistic objectives and to help to facilitate goal and discharge planning to enable safe discharge from our service. Work to support the team in its delivery of interventions, to skill share with other professionals to support the full breadth of the service (competency training is offered to support this skill sharing method of delivering intervention). This is a community post therefore you will be required to have a driving licence and access to a car.

Main duties of the job Please see job description and person specification on the advert, this will include the essential and desirable criteria.

About us We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future. We want to attract staff who embrace our behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

Job description Job responsibilities Please see job description and person specification on the advert, this will include the essential and desirable criteria.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Occupational Therapy. UK Registrations with the Health Care Professions Council.

Desirable Relevant post graduate courses.

Skills Essential Current driving licence and have access to own transport. Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment skills.

Desirable Experience of working in community settings. Supervisory and leadership skills.

Employer details Employer name Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address Skipton General Hospital Skipton BD23 2RJ

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