RRIC Community Practitioner – Occupational Therapist

An occupational therapy post in the Aylesbury team of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. The work is specialist assessment of patients and carers, planning care to keep people independent at home, and case managing them through their care. It sits in a multi-disciplinary community team that responds to crisis, supports early hospital discharge and provides end-of-life care. HCPC registration and a valid UK driving licence with a car are essential.

What the job involves

• Triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of patient and carer needs using OT skills
• Plan programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence
• Actively case manage patients through their care journeys
• Allocate workloads to members of the RRIC team
• Work with a range of professionals to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner
• Demonstrate professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning and co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery
• Support the development of the clinical pathway

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in occupational therapy
• Recent continuing professional development
• Relevant postgraduate clinical training, such as advanced history taking and assessment, long-term conditions, respiratory, cardiac, trauma, orthopaedics and end of life

Registration & licences

• Registered with HCPC as an occupational therapist

Experience

• Post or pre-registration placements in care of the elderly, orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory, palliative care and long-term conditions
• In-depth experience of working in a multi-agency or multi-disciplinary team

Skills & knowledge

• Profession-specific clinical assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation skills

Checks & eligibility

• Valid UK driving licence and access to a car for travel across the county

Nice to have

• NHS community or in-patient experience for at least 2 years post registration
• Electronic clinical systems, IT skills and report writing
• Research or audit participation
• Day-to-day staff management, such as allocating cases to healthcare assistants
• Experience of the single assessment process
• Knowledge of legal requirements for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity
• Managing complex cases, partnership working and teaching patients, carers and colleagues
• Knowledge of the NHS and social care modernisation agenda

What’s offered

• Learning and development opportunities to support career progression
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• NHS pension
• Access to NHS discount schemes
• Health and wellbeing services

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