Senior Occupational Therapist
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Occupational Therapist to join the Home First Service (Discharge to Access Pathway) based in Leek, Staffordshire.
Home First is an integrated health, care and support service that delivers short-term reablement interventions, provides clinical support to individuals in the community to help prevent avoidable hospital admissions by empowering people to maximise their independence and achieve their health and social care goals.
The Home First Team is committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care to patients in the community, including those with complex health and social care needs. The service plays a vital role in supporting safe and timely hospital discharges, enabling individuals to continue their recovery and rehabilitation within their own home environment.
This is a varied and rewarding role within a dynamic service that continues to evolve in response to the needs of the local population, service developments, and feedback from patients and staff. As a valued member of the team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development and shaping of the service.
The service operates 7 days a week, and you will be required to work a shift pattern across 5 days out of 7.
Main duties of the job
Dynamic role that requires close collaboration with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams to address a broad range of health, care and support needs across diverse patient groups and conditions. Play a key role in promoting independence, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitating safe hospital discharge, and improving health and wellbeing outcomes for the population served.
Assess new service user referrals and care/support needs. Assesses service users and formulates, develops, implements and evaluates programmes of treatment /care/support for individuals, families and carers. The specialist care/support plans may include the following:
- o Promoting independence/self-management and maintaining safety
- o Increased functional ability
- o Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health
- o Interventions in disease/condition management
- o Prevention and reducing of health inequalities
- o Admission avoidance
- o Early supported discharge
- o Case management/ treatment /care plans
