Chippenham Community Team has a vacancy for a full time Band 5 Community Occupational Therapist. Our multi-disciplinary team is based in Chippenham Community Hospital and provides complex interventions to a wide range of patients in their own homes and other community clinical settings. We also work closely with our partners including Specialist Services, Social Care, Acute Hospitals and Primary Care. Our therapy team consists of 6 therapy staff working closely with support workers to manage patients from 5 local GP practices. The hours of work are between 08:00 and 18:00 including some weekends. The role includes a focus on rehabilitation, long term condition management and responding to planned and urgent referrals. You will be required to hold a varied clinical caseload, complete occupational therapy assessments to identify goals, formulate and deliver individual occupational therapy treatment programmes. You will be required to assess and order equipment to enable the patient to remain in their chosen home environment. This is an ideal opportunity for an occupational therapist keen to develop skills and knowledge within the community as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team. You will need to have some experience of working with adult and older person's services and great communication skills. Our senior therapists and Clinical Leads will support you to enhance and develop your clinical skills and increase your understanding of services and community working. We can offer community specific training and a supportive and friendly environment in which to learn new skills plus a range of training and development opportunities, including an induction program, and clinical support. If you are interested, please come for an informal visit to meet our team.Main Responsibility

• Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students.
• To work within the integrated multi-professional team.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing occupational therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of specialist team members and the Team Leader.
• To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation.
• Wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
  
  Dip COT/BSc/BSc(Hons)/MSc OT
• Registered as an OT with the Health professional Council
• To possess a current, valid full driving licence
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
• Experience of applying research based information to practice
• Assessment and care planning
• Working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience within a range of patient/client care groups
• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds
• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
• Competence in a wide range of occupational therapy skills
• I.T. literate
• Typing / data inputting skills for accessing patient information
• Manual handling skills and experience
• Ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues
• To be flexible and adaptable
• Organisational skills
• Report writing
• Experience of dealing with difficult situations
• Driven to achieve
• Self-motivated
• Good time management
  
  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. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.


• Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 with Agenda for Change terms and conditions and NHS pension.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission