Specialist Occupational Therapist

Are you looking for the next step in your career to consolidate your clinical knowledge and develop your leadership skills? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to work with Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service. We are looking for an experienced and well organised individual with a passion for promoting independence, driving a strength-based approach and providing therapy interventions in a person's own home or discharge to assess unit in line with a home first approach.

We have been on an exciting journey to transform the intermediate care services within Halton and have brought together health and social care into a unified integrated team. We are excited to welcome you to join our friendly team where you will have the opportunity to work across all areas of the service including:

Single Point of Access

Community Rapid Response / Frailty Team

Reablement Team

Intermediate Care Unit

You will work as part of a large multidisciplinary team that includes: GP’s, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Therapy and Nursing Assistants, Dietician, Care Support Workers and Administrators.

The HICAF Service operates a 7 day service, currently covering the hours of 8am to 8pm, including bank holidays and weekends. You will be expected to work shifts to cover some of the weekends and bank holiday.

Our patients are at the heart of everything we do! We look for people who are committed to being part of a health and social care team that delivers excellent care and support to our patients. To help us achieve this, we expect you to hold responsibility for your own caseload, perform patient therapy assessments, provide a diagnosis, develop, implement and evaluate individualised holistic treatment programmes, and deliver a high standard of evidence-based care.

In all areas, you will work in a multi-disciplinary team, follow appropriate pathways of care, liaising with and referring to other agencies as appropriate.

We expect you to be hardworking, motivated with excellent clinical, communication, organisational and time management skills. A flexible approach to day-to-day tasks is essential, in order to meet the demands of the service. You will also be expected to travel across Halton, in line with service needs, so access to transport is essential

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you will contribute to the clinical supervision of students and junior staff. You will participate in service improvement projects, audits, in service training, and work collaboratively with our hospital and community colleagues to ensure our patients receive outstanding care.

Warrington and Halton Teaching hospitals NHS foundation trust is committed to providing an enjoyable and thriving place to work and learn.

The Halton Intermediate Care and Frailty Service benefits from having regular professional and personal development opportunities.

As a Trust we hold an annual awards event to recognise excellence within the Trust, as well as providing staff benefits such as childcare vouchers, car salary sacrifice schemes and discounts to nearby facilities and events. We have excellent travel links to nearby motorways and are easily accessible from Manchester, Liverpool and surrounding areas within Cheshire.

We welcome visits to the department prior to interview. For further information related to this post, please contact – Debbie Corburn, HICAF Therapy Manager Tel: 0151 511 8763 , Email: [email protected] Adrian Lynne Band 7 Physiotherapist Tel: 0151 511 5427 Email: [email protected]

We offer a structured induction program. Career progression support provided through individual job plan, core skills training, mentoring , regular supervision, CPD sessions to become skilled specialist clinicians with a good range of knowledge and hands on experience.

Our service supports team’s health and wellbeing through activities and accommodate flexible working.

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.