Senior Occupational Therapist - WF Rapid Response

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Are you a dynamic and compassionate Occupational Therapist looking to make a significant impact on patients' lives during critical moments? We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Rapid Response Occupational Therapist to join our healthcare team and provide expert care to patients requiring urgent Occupational Therapy interventions.

Main duties of the job

You will

• Have an opportunity to shape / develop therapy roles within the Rapid Response Team.
• Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals across the borough and Integrated Care System.
• Lead Clinical decision making and undertake enhanced holistic assessment of patient/family needs in partnership with the patient and their family/carer.
• Triage referrals from other agencies or disciplines
• Co-ordinate intensive and complex packages of care with other multi-disciplinary agencies.

Working for our organisation

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Conduct rapid assessments of patients' functional abilities and barriers to independence.
• Create customized intervention plans to address immediate needs and promote functional recovery.
• Deliver prompt occupational therapy interventions to enhance patients' quality of life.
• Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams to ensure holistic patient care.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of assessments, interventions, and progress.
• Educate patients and their families on adaptive strategies and techniques.
• Stay updated on emerging practices to ensure the highest level of care.
• work in collaboration with Virtual ward to ensure patients are receiving appropriate therapeutic care.
• respond urgently to patients requiring unplanned care as per Urgent Care Response guidance.

Person specification

Qualificatuions

Essential criteria

• Bsc or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration

Desirable criteria

• Member of RCOT
• Post graduate training in relevant field

essential

Essential criteria

• years of clinical experience

Desirable criteria

• experience of working in community and urgent setting

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive post graduate experience of working as an Occupational therapist
• Experience of working in physical setting with adults/older people in community, admission avoidance , acute or rehabilitation
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of supervising junior staff
• Experience of service improvement or audits

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in admission avoidance services , or A and E

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates sound IT skills eg Microsoft packages excel, word, teams
• Demonstrates good communication and written skills
• Ability to travel across the borough or valid uk driver 's licence

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Band 7 OT Job Description + Spec (PDF, 502.1KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)