Job summary
- Main area
- Community Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 331-C17080525
- Employer
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Westmorland General hospital
- Town
- Kendal
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Community Occupational Therapist to join our Therapy team in South Cumbria. You would be joining the team at an exciting time as we are in the process of integrating discharge to assess, supported discharge and community therapy services to form a wider team based in the community setting to provide a comprehensive quality service for our service users.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of Community Occupational Therapists, Community Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants based from WGH in Kendal.
Working closely with the Integrated Care Communities, local GP's, Adult Social Care, Rapid Response teams and hospital discharge teams we provide rehabilitation and admission avoidance within patients own homes or care settings and CHC assessments, supporting people with a wide variety of conditions including frailty and falls, amputees, neurological conditions, orthopaedics and long term conditions.
We support under-graduate clinical education to occupational therapy students on placement from the local universities.
The service hours are Monday - Friday 8am - 630pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am - 5pm
Main duties of the job
Working independently as an autonomous practitioner supporting occupational therapy pathways, providing therapeutic assessment, diagnosis, treatment and being responsible for managing a caseload of patients with a range of frequently complex conditions.
To regularly assist in the planning & delivery of team and departmental training and education sessions, to further professional and personal development for staff, working with the guidance and support of senior members of staff if required
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
Our community services for adults are provided in people’s homes, community centres, clinics, GP Practices, community hospitals and our main hospitals. Our aim is to work with people to help them remain independent, improve their health and manage their conditions through high quality care, advice and support.
The team delivers a 5 day service Monday to Friday. You will be expected to be able to travel across south Cumbria and be flexible for the needs of the service with some expectation to work across traditional boundaries. A broad experience of delivering rehabilitation is advantageous.
In addition to a comprehensive induction package we offer Team support, staff supervision and in-service training opportunities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Health and Care Professions Council registered OT
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy approved by the Royal College of OT, UK
- Post graduate training or experience to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
- Full UK driving licence, or equivalent qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research or audit
- Membership of the British Association of Occupational Therapists.
- Accredited training in risk assessment and risk management. Practice placement educator accreditation
experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience as an OT to achieve knowledge and skills applicable to this post
- Experience of assessment and prescription of aids and adaptations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience as a supervisor of OT (Band 5) and/or OT support staff and/or OT students
- experience within community rehab setting
- Experience of caseload management and lone working as an autonomous practitioner.
Skills, ability and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Transferable knowledge and skills at basic practitioner level with aptitude to develop to specialist OT practitioner level
- Assessment, observation, evaluation and reporting skills
- Ability to develop effective working relationships / team working
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
- Ability to work under pressure and recognise when support is required
- Effective personal organisational skills to manage own workload and to determine priorities to support delivery of the OT service
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Applied knowledge of health and social care legislation and guidelines e.g. National service Frameworks (NSF’s) and National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for clinical conditions and application to OT practice.
- Ability to apply knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
- Application of knowledge of Health & Safety and risk management policies and related procedures.
- Understanding of professional conduct and confidentiality
- Understanding of team dynamics.
- Ability to build effective working relationships.
- Written and oral communication skills in English sufficient to communicate effectively with patients to gain consent and explain treatment interventions and gain information required for the patient’s medical/social history relevant to OT.
- Basic computer skills e.g. word processing, email and internet skills.
Desirable criteria
- evidence of multidisciplinary team working
- evidence of IT skills
personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of the post
- Ability to participate in manual handling tasks and therapeutic handling
- Ability to travel to provide assessment and treatment to patients in the community and to attend meetings
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning.
- Willingness to work flexibly to meet unexpected and unusual circumstances related to providing direct patient care, and have the ability to work across different sites/bases/locations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Lorna Brown
- Job title
- Team Lead for Community Therapy
- Email address
- lorna.brown2@mbht.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 07816250989
- Additional information
Alex Tremeer or Sarah Airey
01539715222
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