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Are you an experienced Occupational therapist with excellent communication skills, a passion for community care and team working? If so we would like to hear from you.

Do you have a desire for supporting patients, who are living with challenging health needs? Are you innovative, organized, dynamic, and self-motivated? Are you interested in developing new ways of working and committed to best practice? If so, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Mid- Essex for  an experienced band 6 Occupational therapist to join our vibrant multi-professional community Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) Admission Avoidance Team. Every member of our team is focused and passionate about ensuring that all our patients receive the highest standards of care, which is delivered with dignity, respect and compassion.

Flexible working hours on a full-time basis are offered (Long days will be considered) to ensure the service is covered. A valid, clean driving license and use of a vehicle is essential.

Main duties of the job

The role of the UCRT therapist is to carry out rapid response functional assessments and interventions to support patients to remain safe and independent in their own home and support recovery. The post holders will need to have a high degree of professional autonomy and be able to make critical/clinical judgements using expert knowledge, skills and experience in order to provide a gold standard of holistic care including complex management of patients with multiple health conditions as the Band 6, you will be responsible for working autonomously during shift, feeding back to Clinical Leads within UCRT. You will be expected to contribute to the service as a whole with MDTs, service development, supporting the trust and attend service meetings.  

The post requires you to be able to carry equipment and travel though out the whole area commissioned.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Eligible for NHS Pension