Senior Community Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist

The Ipswich West Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) has an exciting opportunity available to work as a Band 6 Senior Occupational Therapist in the community. This is an ideal opportunity for an existing band 6 looking to progress into a more senior role. This position will be working alongside our established team of therapists and being offered on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave until August 2025 at 22.5hours per week.

The team is based at Constantine House in the centre of Ipswich town. You will be required to work across the Ipswich West INT, and the wider community services to meet service requirements. The team consists of district & community nurses, assistant practitioners, generic workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and social care workers. The team is led by a Lead Therapist and overall managed by an INT manager.

The team is busy, dynamic, and proud of their holistic care approach. The team continues to change to support developments in NHS which includes close working relationships with the local statutory, non-statutory and voluntary services. You will be actively supported by regular supervision and individual annual appraisal. You will be expected to work autonomously and on behalf of the patients served by the local area. You will have access to skills development training relevant to the post. The role involves providing therapy interventions to the residents across the South Rural INT and wider Area.

Main duties of the job

The role will include a comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role. We pride ourselves on the holistic care approach we provide from initial assessment to identify the needs of patients in their own homes.

Your duties will be to provide holistic therapeutic assessments of patient goals to implement management plans and strategies. This role will also include working with the wider Integrated and multidisciplinary team, including MDT meetings. We offer a variety of training to up skill and maintain your clinical skills. Although we are expecting our staff to work autonomously, we are a very supportive team and work closely together to achieve the best outcomes for our patients.

Due to this post being a community position it is essential for the successful candidate to be able to drive.

You will be required to work shifts covering the operational hours of 08:00 to 18:00 over 7 days.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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