Occupational Therapist - Complex Care at Home Team

The Complex Care at Home Service (CC@H) is looking to recruit an experienced occupational therapist to become part of the team. The team provides proactive, preventative case management to a mainly frail older cohort of patients living in Gloucester, Cheltenham and the Forest of Dean. This position is based in Cheltenham, but the role requires the person to be able to support their colleagues in other areas as required. Our team love coming to work in a role that allows them to use a health coaching approach to support a person to achieve their goals. We always try to use Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing skills and utilise outcome measures that evidence their effectiveness in improving a person's health and wellbeing. The CC@H service is a truly multi-disciplinary team who support people living with complex health conditions and frailty to remain as independent as possible in their choice of residence. The role is rewarding and challenging but never boring. You will be supported by an amazing team of clinicians, therapists, health and wellbeing coordinators and social care colleagues. You will be visiting people in their own homes and supporting them to live well and improve their resilience, with a focus on what matters to them and their concerns. If you have the skills and knowledge required that allows people to truly focus on what matters to them whilst supporting them to achieve their goals, please get in touch.Main duties of the job The post holder will work as a key part of the Complex Care at Home team having a clinical role with responsibility for planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people with highly complex needs and long term conditions within a defined caseload. The post holder will use case management techniques to deliver Personalised Proactive care to prevent avoidable deterioration in people's health and ultimately reducing the occurrence of unplanned hospital admissions.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.