Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist (OT). REACT is a multidisciplinary, integrated community service within ESNEFT. This role will support the development of care pathways focusing on Urgent Community Response (UCR) and the acute Frailty Virtual Ward—two fast paced and exciting government initiatives.

Our team is committed to delivering excellent, patient-focused care to individuals across Ipswich and the wider East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued and key member of our team?

This is a full-time post of 37.5 hours per week, including weekdays and weekends, covering an 8am-8pm service.

Main duties of the job

You will:

·     Provide skilled occupational therapy clinical expertise with knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community.

·         Manage and escalate patients on the REACT virtual ward (VW) and community caseload (UCR)

·    To promote high standards of professional practice and deliver quality care to aid admission avoidance where appropriate.

·         Plan and provide training/education for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance and frailty.

·         Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older person’s care/frailty and admission avoidance.

·         Demonstrate competent skills in triaging incoming patient referrals, responding appropriately in the patients and service best interest. Escalating any issues or capacity concerns, to the leadership team 

·      To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.

·     To supervise less experienced junior staff and students to a graduate level, being involved in working with the universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards of the degree level qualification. To deliver teaching sessions in specialised area as part of planned in-service training.

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.   

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.   

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