Occupational Therapist - Urgent Community Response Team

As part of the Urgent Community Response (UCR), you will be required:o To work within the Urgent Community Response Team, to preventunnecessary admission to hospital. To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support discharges from hospital under identified D2A pathways.

o To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of a patient's ability to stay at home, or return safely from another care setting, providing and arranging as necessary supportive packages of care.

o To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to assess andprescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long termconditions, the frail and elderly, palliative and end of life care and/orrehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence wherepossible.

o To act as the patients advocate, facilitating choice and patient empowerment.

o To provide evidence based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on 'best practice' in order to improve health outcomes and promote choice.

o To provide in-reach to inpatient units and step up beds where required tosupport early discharge from hospital.

o To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutoryagencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

o To triage referrals on a rotational basis for the Urgent Community Response Team.

Do you have excellent interpersonal and clinical skills?Are you flexible, approachable and a team player?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Norwich Place UCR Therapy Team. We are looking for experienced and reliable Occupational Therapist to join us in providing high quality therapy services. The role is to work in the UCR therapy team which covers NEAT, Admission Avoidance, and Discharge to Assess for Norwich Place, and will involve working across a 7-day week. Currently therapy shifts are 8-6 with weekend working on a rota

The post holder will:

1. Undertake mandatory training as required.2. Participate in a Personal Development Review process.3. Undertake Personal Development Plans for more junior staff members.4. Take part in clinical supervision as per Trust Policy.5. Follow Trust policies, and local procedures, and use discretion in interpreting them according to the setting and circumstances.6. Comment on draft policies.7. Ensure absence reporting is undertaken as determined by Team Leader and Trust Policy.8. Contribute to clinical audit as required.9. Complete the staff survey as required.10. Complete risk assessments and incident forms as required.