Senior Occupational Therapist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Occupational Therapist in our South Community Therapy Team (Adur, Arun and Worthing) to come and work in the service delivering the aim above via holistic, personalised, therapeutic care. You will work as part of well-established wider Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) across our local communities, where you will provide support across both proactive community rehabilitation and urgent care pathways. Our teams work flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.
We will support you to make full use of your skills at whatever stage of your career to:
+ Provide specialist, holistic assessments, and reviews to improve or maintain quality of life.
+ Support individuals to take increased ownership and control over their health through rehabilitation interventions, personalised care planning and goal setting.
+ Provide an urgent response to minimise crisis situations and the need for emergency interventions or hospital admissions.
+ Improve access to existing services through a coordinated MDT approach.
Our Trust and leadership teams are committed to supporting your work/life balance via flexible working and tailored support to help you advance your clinical practice and leadership skills in style that suits you, your health and wellbeing and your future career aspirations. This is an opportunity to bring your skills and develop them in a flexible, supportive, and positive community service., In this role, you will use your skills to undertake assessments and plan treatment and interventions for patients with a variety of conditions, identifying ongoing needs and making appropriate onward referrals to our partners.
You will contribute to the co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team through the allocation of visits. You will also support the clinical and operational leads in the supervision and development of colleagues and will be supported to develop your clinical and non-clinical capabilities across the four pillars of practice.
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.

At the heart of how we operate is our Trust values:
+ Compassionate Care
+ Working Together,
+ Achieving Ambitions
+ Delivering Excellence
Our values are fundamental to the high-quality care we provide to the people who need us. We are proud to be a community that cares, delivering our services as a team whilst supporting our employees as individuals.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer that actively promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We embrace and celebrate diversity, encouraging applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with an ethnically diverse heritage, those with disabilities, and individuals identifying as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Our aim is to grow a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
We strive to create an environment where every individual is valued and respected. Our recruitment process is designed to support candidates who require reasonable adjustments and to accommodate the needs of applicants.
This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically, please ensure you check your emails, including your junk folder. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

+ Positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
+ Rated 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
+ Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
+ A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients' homes and in our community hospitals
+ Excellent training and development opportunities
+ Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
+ Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
+ Supportive team environments
+ Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
+ Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
+ Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
+ Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff.