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Senior Community Occupational Therapist

Due to a secondment  within the community therapy service we are seeking forward thinking and dynamic band 6 Occupational Therapist to temporarily join our team here in Copeland.

Copeland ICC covers a large geographical area of natural beauty on the western coast of Cumbria and including the western Lake District National Park areas of Ennerdale and Wasdale.  From the coast at St. Bees to the summit of Scafell Pike, Copeland is fantastic place to live and work.  The post is based within the Community Rehabilitation Service (CRS) which provides urgent community response, community rehabilitation, inpatient community ward therapy and outpatient rehabilitation clinics.  

We are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking, team player to join us in our ambition to deliver high quality care to our patients.  As a clinician you will independently assess and treat routine and complex patients in the community and outpatient settings with a variety of conditions, holding your own caseload and signposting to other services when needed.  You will be supported in your own professional development, have the opportunity to pursue clinical interests while continuing to deliver a service across a broad base of practice.  As a member of the CRS, you would benefit from a supportive and knowledgeable team in your day-to-day work and your professional development.

If this post sounds like something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Take part in the Lead Professional of the Day and triage roster to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate discharge from acute and community settings.

Triage and provide assessment for those patients that are deemed to require it for admission avoidance, discharge facilitation or rehabilitation.

Provide high quality, effective holistic assessment of patients' needs according to professional expertise and lead in the implementation of an appropriate management plan

Utilise assistant members of the team in the provision of rehabilitation and/or home care services through delegation and effective communication.

Link with other agencies such as social services, PCN colleagues and the voluntary sector to sign post and ensure patients' needs are met.

Provide supervision to junior staff within the team.

Participate in service development.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.