Description
Join our innovative Community Ageing Well Service (CAWS) and make a meaningful difference to older people living with frailty, complex health needs and long-term conditions.
As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will work within a supportive multidisciplinary team to help people remain independent, safe and confident in their own homes. You will use your specialist skills to assess needs, provide person-centred occupational therapy interventions and help people achieve what matters most to them.
CAWS provides proactive, preventative and holistic care, working closely with GPs, community rehabilitation, social care, care homes, voluntary sector organisations and Integrated Neighbourhood Teams.
The service focuses on:
- Promoting independence, wellbeing and quality of life
- Reducing falls and functional decline
- Supporting admission avoidance
- Enabling people to remain safely at home
This fixed-term maternity cover offers an opportunity to develop your specialist practice while contributing to a service that makes a positive difference to patients, carers and communities.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will:
- Complete comprehensive occupational therapy assessments for people with complex physical, cognitive and functional needs.
- Develop and deliver personalised treatment and rehabilitation plans based on individual goals and strengths.
- Assess and recommend appropriate equipment, adaptations and moving and handling solutions.
- Support people to maximise their independence, function, confidence and quality of life.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to develop coordinated, person-centred care plans.
- Provide specialist occupational therapy advice to patients, carers and other health and social care professionals.
- Contribute to falls prevention, frailty management and admission avoidance initiatives.
- Provide supervision, guidance and support to therapy assistants and junior colleagues, where appropriate.
- Contribute to service development, quality improvement and clinical governance.
- Build effective working relationships across health, social care and voluntary sector services to support joined-up care.
Benefits
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
- Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy
- Current HCPC registration
- Attendance at specialist short courses or equivalent CPD activities within the specialist areas of Adult Rehabilitation, Falls, Neurology, Orthopaedics, Musculoskeletal Outpatients, Older People Rehabilitation, Palliation
Experience
- Substantial post registration experience as a Band 5 Occupational Therapist
- Experience working at a Junior level in a wide range of specialised clinical areas, providing care to frail and elderly patients with long-term conditions and/or complex health needs including outpatients, neurology, rehabilitation, orthopedics and respiratory
- Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team in NHS and social services
Skills & Knowledge
- Skills in the assessment and treatment of adults with complex conditions and multi-pathologies
- Knowledge and understanding of complex medical conditions including multipathologies and falls
- Ability to apply core Occupational Therapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centred, goal setting approach
- Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence-based practice associated with Occupational Therapy
- Good communication and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format