Job summary
- Main area
- Homefirst
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 201-25-370-A
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Falmouth Health Centre
- Town
- Falmouth
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum / Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist - Homefirst
Band 5
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist post in the Carrick Home First Team providing assessment, reablement and rehabilitation to adults with health problems. This includes creating and reviewing care plans, reablement plans to facilitate independence and self-management and rehabilitation plans for support workers to implement. The teams support the Ageing Well Programme with 2 Hour Urgent Care Responses, 48 Hour Reablement Responses and Anticipatory Care Responses. The team plays a key role in supporting prevention of admission to Bedded Care and Discharge to Assess pathways.
We are seeking innovative pre and post registration Clinicians who will relish this creative approach and career development within the wonderful county of Cornwall.
Structured supervision and opportunities to participate in the established in – service training programmes and support for continued professional development will be provided
This is a full time post working 37.5 hours per week.
Applications will be accepted from students due to qualify in 2025.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care, without direct supervision, to patients, carers and relatives within their home environment, enabling them to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life.
To work in partnership with patients and carers to offer support and advice and promote informed choice. Responsible
To support the role of the Team leader.
To work autonomously, providing effective, evidence based care in line with competency and training record and organisational policies, procedures and guidelines.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered
- Professional Qualifications taken in English Language or appropriate qualification from the International Language Testing System (IELTS)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing reablement
Skills & Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Well-developed communication skills – empathy, negotiation, motivation and presenting of complex facts in an understandable way, re-assurance, and support particularly to anxious people
- IT skills to include use of Word, Excel, email, internet, recording systems
- Understanding of conditions that can result in long term disability
- Understanding of the roles of colleagues in health and social care
- Ability to independently attend patients in various locations in a timely manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenefer Feenan
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01326 436677
- Additional information
Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction.
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