Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative and well-motivated Occupational Therapist to join the East Integrated Rehabilitation Team based primarily at Liskeard Community Hospital.

Under the umbrella of the East Rehab Therapy Team, we provide high quality rehabilitation and reablement in the community alongside step-down intermediate care in the bedded settings of Liskeard and Launceston hospitals to adults (aged 18 years or over) who need support after discharge from acute inpatient settings and virtual wards to help them rehabilitate, re-able and recover in East Cornwall.

The post holder will treat patients with a complex, varied pathologies and presentations, including a wide variety of conditions e.g. neurological, orthopaedic, respiratory, frailty and falls.  Every contact, treatment plan, and working environment is different bringing variety and challenge.

We work flexibly in line with a ‘one workforce’ culture across services, settings, and sectors, building relationships and increasing skills.  The team model aims to increase capacity and access to high quality therapy-led rehabilitation assessments and interventions that are timely, safe, and person-centred, for people discharged on intermediate care pathways from acute settings and virtual wards.

This post is open to newly qualified professionals and those returning to practice, and we welcome applications from individuals at the start of their career or re-entering the workforce. 

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard occupational therapy service 

To provide assessment and treatment/management of patients, some of whom may have acute, complex and/or chronic presentations, carried out as an autonomous practitioner.

Supervise and delegate to allied health professional support workers.

Working as part of the East Rehab Therapies Team, to ensure a high standard of intervention and effective and efficient service to patients

To practice as a lone worker under the supervision of a senior Occupational Therapist

You will be expected to provide supervision for support staff and participate in Student Education.

It will be an expectation of this post that if needed the person works flexibly across all areas of the East Integrated Therapy Team. Seven-day working could become an operational requirement of this post in the future.  Currently the service is commissioned Mon - Fri excluding Bank Holidays.

Regular clinical supervision will be provided and continuing professional development encouraged. We would welcome informal visits to the team.

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.