An exciting opportunity has arisen to join in our new Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards Team based in Macclesfield. We are a friendly multidisciplinary team made up of therapists, nurses, ACP's, rehabilitation assistants, and patient navigators. We also have a very close working relationship with Cheshire East Council, to enable us to support our patients at home, by accessing rapid care. We provide assessment and treatments for a wide variety of patients, with complex needs, across the East Cheshire locality, with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting people within their own homes., Key Roles and Responsibilities

To excel in this role, the clinician will need to work autonomously to mange a complex patient caseload within varied settings in the community.

You will need to deliver training to professional groups of all bandings, patients and carers. This will include supervision of junior staff, inductees across the board.

To enable service development, the clinician will also need to initiate and take part in audits to improve clinical practice as well pulling on up to date clinical research.

We are looking for an experience Occupational Therapist, with excellent clinical skills in Urgent Community Response and the drive and ambition to input into the development of the community virtual wards.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or are looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, East Cheshire NHS Trust is the right employer for you. An organisation with a real sense of community we actively support and develop our staff to ensure our patients receive the best quality care, delivering the right care first time, every time.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters as part of ongoing monitoring.

The Urgent Community Response service is a 7 day service operating between the hours of 8am-8pm. There will be a requirement for the successful candidate/s to work weekends, on a rota basis.

Hours per week: Flexible up to 37.5 hours per week. Compressed hours will be considered.