Band 6 Occupational Therapist - Community

We have a great opportunity for a full time Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team to provide therapy interventions to patients within our Community Therapy Service and our new and exciting developing service, High Dependency Beds at Everdale Grange Care home. The High dependency beds at Everdale Grange were created as part of the discharge to assess pathway specifically targeted at patients with Physical, Behavioural or Cognitive needs who may require a period of recovery, reablement and rehabilitation. The aim of these beds is to allow these patients to have a safe and supportive environment to undergo a period of assessment and rehabilitation, allowing the MDT to support patients and families to determine the most appropriate discharge destination for them. The service brings together an integrated health and social care offer delivered by community-based nursing, therapy and adult social care teams and will allow you to use your therapy skills to:

• Support people to remain in their homes when they are having a health or social care crisis, rather than needing to go into hospital or a care home.
• Help people get home from hospital quickly and provide them with rehabilitation and reablement to help restore their health, wellbeing and independence.
• Deliver high quality core therapy reablement, rehabilitation and recovery to people within their own home., To be responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of the Occupational Therapy assessment and Interventions (information gathering, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, evaluation and discharge planning) as appropriate working with a person centred approach. This may include meaningful activities interventions tailored to these patients to determine their level of functional ability, any rehabilitation potential they may have.
• To communicate and work collaboratively with patients, families/carers, other disciplines and other agencies to ensure good professional working relationships are maintained.
• To have clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this effectively with regard to clinical priorities and in line with the Trusts waiting/response times and service priorities.
• To take responsibility for the clinical and management supervision of other Physiotherapy staff, Band 5 or unregistered staff as appropriately agreed with Team/Clinical/Operational Lead.
• To contribute to and take a lead in audit, quality improvement, research and development and recommendations on clinical practice.
• Demonstrate understanding of clinical governance and risk management and participate in initiatives as appropriate with support from Team/Clinical/Operational Lead.
• To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping and report writing., working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri
  
  We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied