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Occupational Therapist - Complex Care at Home Team

Employer
Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Cheltenham
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 per annum
Closing date
12 Nov 2024
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Profession
Occupational therapist
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time
The Complex Care at Home Service (CC@H) is looking to recruit an experienced occupational therapist to become part of the team. The team provides proactive, preventative case management to a mainly frail older cohort of patients living in Gloucester, Cheltenham and the Forest of Dean. This position is based in Cheltenham, but the role requires the person to be able to support their colleagues in other areas as required.

Our team love coming to work in a role that allows them to use a health coaching approach to support a person to achieve their goals. We always try to use Health Coaching and Motivational Interviewing skills and utilise outcome measures that evidence their effectiveness in improving a person's health and wellbeing.

The CC@H service is a truly multi-disciplinary team who support people living with complex health conditions and frailty to remain as independent as possible in their choice of residence. The role is rewarding and challenging but never boring. You will be supported by an amazing team of clinicians, therapists, health and wellbeing coordinators and social care colleagues.

You will be visiting people in their own homes and supporting them to live well and improve their resilience, with a focus on what matters to them and their concerns.

If you have the skills and knowledge required that allows people to truly focus on what matters to them whilst supporting them to achieve their goals, please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a key part of the Complex Care at Home team having a clinical role with responsibility for planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people with highly complex needs and long term conditions within a defined caseload.

The post holder will use case management techniques to deliver Personalised Proactive care to prevent avoidable deterioration in people's health and ultimately reducing the occurrence of unplanned hospital admissions.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
  • 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users
  • 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work
  • 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority
  • 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support patients through the use of health coaching techniques to improve their motivation and resilience, resulting in improvements their physical and emotional health

Proactively manage a caseload of complex patients living with dementia, long term conditions and/or frailty and at risk of deterioration. Patients will be identified through an agreed case finding approach and by referral from other partners in the health and social care community

To be competent in risk assessments including moving and handling assessments, adopting a positive risk-taking approach to the management of risk within the home environment

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload

Responsible for the assessment of the occupational focussed health and social care needs. To gather data and interpret complex clinical information in order to plan care appropriately

Work collaboratively with the patient, family and carers applying a coaching approach to problem solving and enabling appropriate self- management

Work closely with the Community Matrons, Health & Well Being Coordinators, Integrated Community Teams (ICTs), GPs, practice staff, and wider health and social services to ensure care delivery is of high quality and meets required standards, helping to facilitate joint integrated working across the locality and with other stakeholders

To participate in surveys and clinical audit and the evaluation of services as well as regular supervision

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Current and valid registration with HCPC


Experience

Essential

  • Experience in managing difficult situations that require advanced communication and negotiating skills
  • Experience in managing clinical risks
  • Experience of a range of models of occupational therapy practice
  • Evidence of promoting a positive risk taking approach to working with individuals
  • Post graduate qualifications or specialist clinical skill development in relevant in clinical areas such as: neurology, falls, dementia, frailty, long-term condition management etc.


Desirable

  • Relevant post registration experience spent in a variety of settings including the community
  • Experience in managing a complex clinical caseload


Management/Leadrership Qualities

Essential

  • Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner, but with senior management and peer multidisciplinary support available if necessary
  • Ability to identify opportunities to support colleagues and self in clinical competency acquisition and clinical supervision
  • Ability to develop and participate actively in a culture which embraces the trusts values


Desirable

  • Ability to provide a clinical perspective on service development and modernising service delivery


Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Independent Living Centre, Cheltenham

Village road

Cheltenham

GL51 0BY

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327-24-952

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