Job summary
Employer heading
Surrey Downs Health and Care
Occupational Therapist - Surrey Downs H&C
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Surrey Downs Health & Care
We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Occupational Therapist to join our team at Surrey Downs Health and Care.
In this role, you will provide a comprehensive and coordinated range of specialist occupational therapy services in community settings. Your work will focus on maintaining or improving people’s health, independence, and quality of life. You will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary/multi-agency team, applying your specialist knowledge and skills to a diverse range of complex health conditions.
Main duties of the job
- Assessment and treatment of community-dwelling individuals (including care homes).
- Moving and handling risk assessment.
- Training of MDT
- Line managing junior team members
- Support Band 7
- Design and delivery of OT services across SDHC.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
- The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
- CSH Surrey
- Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team in the assessment and management of a caseload of clients.
- To plan, deliver and evaluate the treatment needs of clients with a variety of complex social and health care needs.
- To participate as an active member of the multidisciplinary team in developing and delivering high quality and innovative services to the local population.
- To promote effective teamwork within the wider Surrey Downs Health and Care, delegating activities appropriately, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.
- As a therapist within Surrey Downs Health and Care there will be the opportunity to work closely alongside and potentially rotate into other sectors of the organisation.
- The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person specification for more details.
Person specification
Role specific
Essential criteria
- HCPC membership
- RCOT membership
- clinical experience relevant to the position
Desirable criteria
- Community Rehab experience
- Strong moving and handling experience
- Teaching experience
- Managing junior staff
Essential
Essential criteria
- Car driver with access to a car for business use
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of strong computer skills eg Microsoft / EMIS / Systm1
Clinical
Essential criteria
- Able to carry out physical work in rehabilitation
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of self directed learning
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
- Emma Shires
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07918476997
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