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Job overview

The West Kent Therapy Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and talented Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Urgent Therapy Service.  This is a growing team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants.

Our Urgent Therapy Service provide reactive care to enable people to stay in their own home during period of crisis. The team work to respond to referrals same or next day, completing holistic assessments of patients in their home environments and delivering moving and handling solutions to make the individual safe, and optimise their functional independence.

The therapists work closely with our urgent care multi disciplinary services including, Rapid Response, Home treatment Service and Hospital at Home.  Working alongside Nurses, Doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Support Workers.

Due to the nature of this work the service is evolving and will eventually cover a seven day service over extended hours (8-8). Therefore, this is ideal for someone seeking flexible working patterns.

You must be a HCPC registered Occupational Therapist and have a car and full driving license as will be required to travel around the locality independently.

Main duties of the job

Day to day your duties will include: 

• Completing comprehensive and holistic new patient assessments
• Delivering crisis management moving and handling solutions
• Designing individual rehabilitation plans and goal setting.
• Delivering and adapting Occupational Therapy interventions.
• Collaboration with MDT
• Equipment provision and ordering
• Supervising Therapy Assistants and Apprentices
• Clinical education of students on placement

We are an "Outstanding" rated Trust and one of the largest NHS community organisations in the UK. We can give you support to develop your skills, and a real commitment to your personal and continued professional development. 

As a Trust, one of our main ambitions is to be a great place to work.  Our We care strategy for 2023 to 2028 will help us make the biggest breakthroughs in improving your working lives and patient care.  Flexible working is just one of the ways we can do this. More than half of our workforce works flexibly in some way. We will consider all kinds of flexible working including; part-time, job sharing, compressed hours, term time only, career breaks or annualised hours.

Additional Working Pattern: Flexible working patterns over 7 days

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

 

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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