UCRT Occupational Therapist Specialist Practitioner

EPUT'S Urgent Care Response team is expanding and developing and is looking for an Occupational therapist to further enhance the service. This is a years secondment opportunity. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team and be part of the wider system supporting patient centred care with the aim to avoid admissions. The Urgent Care Response service forms part of the wider care coordination centre and works alongside the virtual model of care in the community.

• Secondment opportunity for one year, EPUT's Urgent Care Response Team is looking for motivated Occupational Therapists who wish to develop their clinical skills to become a band 7 specialist therapist within a the service. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team and under the guidance and leadership of band 7 therapy team leads providing rapid assessment and management of health crises to make a real difference to patients' lives. The post holder will develop skills to be able to carry out advanced therapy assessments and reviews, devising a comprehensive evidenced based care plan. The therapist will then provide highly specialist clinical support to junior staff and the wider service., Occupational therapist will develop their clinical skills to become a band 7 specialist therapist within the UCR service. Working with a multi-disciplinary team and under the guidance and leadership of band 7 therapy team leads providing rapid assessment and management of health crises. The post holder will develop skills tobe able to carry outadvanced therapy assessments and reviews, devising a comprehensiveevidenced based care plan. The therapist will then provide highly specialist clinical support to junior staff and the wider service.
  
  Are you innovative, organised, dynamic, and self-motivated? Are you interested in developing new ways of working and committed to best practice? If so, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
  
  About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
• We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020. CQC says we're still GOOD and now we're OUTSTANDING for caring! Our vision and values Our Vision "To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care". Our Purpose "We care for people every day. What we do together, matters". Our Values
• We Care
• We Learn
• We Empower
Our strategic objectives
• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
• Mental Health Services
• Community Health Services
• Learning Disabilities Services
• Social Care
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