An Exciting opportunity is now available At the Provider Collaborative ACAH community Enhanced Falls service for an enthusiastic forward thinking Occupational therapist to work in a senior decision making role within ACAH 2hr UCR Urgent Community Response Service

This post sits with the UHNM ACAH team but working with the UHNM/MPFT therapies team.

The Enhanced fall service occupational therapist will work alongside an ACAH Acute Care Practitioner responding to falls and sick patients in the community, providing urgent Holistic assessment of mostly unwell elderly patients at home.

The successful candidate will have previous NHS & experience working in emergency portals/community services or have a range of transferable skills including assessing falls patients. The role will have flexible 7 day working. Falls service operational service times would be currently from 0900 to 2000hrs.

We are keen to meet dynamic, enthusiastic and highly motivated Occupational Therapists interested in working in our supportive admission avoidance team providing the highest standards of care to keep our frail patients safe in their own homes.

Our focus is reduction of ED attendances and safe admission avoidance, acute/subacute interventions to improve functional outcomes & specialist falls assessment and falls prevention.

Applicants will need to hold a full driving licence as this is required for the role. A vehicle is provided to enable all necessary equipment to be carried by the team.

Main duties of the job

This role works autonomously as a specialised practitioner managing the clinical delivery of care within Acute Care at Home. The Advanced Therapists lead and organise the resources available to meet service standards and workload demands within Acute Care at Home Enhanced Falls

This post may encounter patients that include the critically ill, unconscious, unstable, neurological, acute and chronic respiratory, multi pathology / complex patients, cognitively and perceptually impaired

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see full Job Description and Person Specification attached

Please contact terry.bates@uhnm.nhs.uk with any questions

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

Essential

• oDegree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• oRegistered with HCPC
• oPortfolio of personal and professional development
• oPost holder committed to working at masters level e.g. has attended courses accreditied at masters/post graduate level

Desirable

• oWorking towards a higher qualification relevant to speciality e.g. Master's degree

Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

Essential

• oPost graduate (NHS) experience with considerable experienced in speciality area
• oExperience of working as a Senior Occupational therapist within the speciality area
• oExperience of teaching students, staff and other professional groups
• oExperience of supporting/supervising staff
• oProven leadership and management skills
• oTrained Clinical Educator
• oAbility to liaise with other professionals/agencies
• oKnowledge of audit and research
• oKnowledge of interdisciplinary working
• oArticulate, able to undertake presentations and tutorials
• oDemonstrate critical appraisal skills
• oAbility to prioritise & manage time
• oAbility to develop different approaches to patient care
• oAbility to develop credibility rapport and rapport with colleagues
• oGood communication skills

Desirable

• oExperience gained within an acute setting
• oInvolvement in audit/research
• oEvidence of Project Work

Personal Qualities

Essential

• oPositive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change learning and continuous improvement
• oActs to support and enable effective teamwork
• oDelivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
• oAbility to travel to and work across multiple sites

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Smithfield 1

St Leonard Coates Way

Stoke on Trent

ST1 4FA

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205-6610617-C