Senior Occupational Therapist (band 6)

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Working within our community team benefits from flexible and agile working opportunities, supportive annual development, health and well-being support whilst using your clinical decision making to develop personalised care.

An innovative role has arisen for a senior community occupational therapist with a specialist interest in mental health to join our established integrated intermediate care team. The team provide an urgent community response service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and a virtual ward to support patients to remain at home wherever possible and facilitate safe hospital discharge.

We work closely with health and social care partners providing several pathways including a Falls response pathway, in addition to COPD, Bronchiectasis, NOF and IV pathways to enable patients to safely stay at home with support by providing clinical monitoring, rehabilitation and equipment provision, we can utilise tech enabled virtual ward beds for remote monitoring., To provide personalised care to adults in their own home within Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven areas. This also includes in-reaching therapy provision to patients in Castleberg Hospital.

To perform advanced occupational therapy assessments of patients with a diverse range of presentations and complicated physical and psychological conditions, develop and deliver individualised/personalised treatment programmes in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team (MDT).

To provide a key role in working in partnership with medical colleagues, MDT, patients and carers to set achievable goals and to help to facilitate discharge planning to enable safe discharge from our service.

To work to support the team in its delivery of interventions, to skill share with other professionals to support the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward models of care.

In pursuing these duties, the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance 'Understanding the new NHS' (details of which can be found in the links section of NHS Jobs).

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work


• Travel Scheme


• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice


• Onsite Nursery


• Buying and Selling Annual Leave


• Car Leasing


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Employee Health and Wellbeing


• Extensive Reward Scheme


• Counselling Service


• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream


• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.


Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care


• Compassion


• Working together for patients


• Improving Lives


• Everyone Counts


• Respect and Dignity


Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.