A Vacancy at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
EPUT’S Urgent Care Response team is expanding and developing and is looking for an Occupational therapist to further enhance the service. This is a years secondment opportunity.You will work with a multi-disciplinary team and be part of the wider system supporting patient centred care with the aim to avoid admissions. The Urgent Care Response service forms part of the wider care coordination centre and works alongside the virtual model of care in the community. *Secondment opportunity for one year*
Are you innovative, organised, 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.
EPUT’s Urgent Care Response Team is looking for motivated Occupational Therapists who wish to develop their clinical skills to become a band 7 specialist therapist within a the service. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team and under the guidance and leadership of band 7 therapy team leads providing rapid assessment and management of health crises to make a real difference to patients' lives.The post holder will develop skills to be able to carry out advanced therapy assessments and reviews, devising a comprehensive evidenced based care plan. The therapist will then provide highly specialist clinical support to junior staff and the wider service.
Occupational therapist will develop their clinical skills to become a band 7 specialist therapist within the UCR service. Working with a multi-disciplinary team and under the guidance and leadership of band 7 therapy team leads providing rapid assessment and management of health crises. The post holder will develop skills to be able to carry out advanced therapy assessments and reviews, devising a comprehensive evidenced based care plan. The therapist will then provide highly specialist clinical support to junior staff and the wider service.
Flexible working is required, as at times you will be expected to work across sites in our other West Essex localities depending on service needs.
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
• We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
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Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
• We Care
• We Learn
• We Empower
Our strategic objectives
• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
• Mental Health Services
• Community Health Services
• Learning Disabilities Services
• Social Care
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The post holder will work autonomously and in collaboration with other health care professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to deliver highly advances standards of patient care for patients requiring support in planned care.
Clinical responsibilities
• To act as a senior decision maker to guide and support staff with complex patient cases.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate highly specialist treatment and care and/or rehabilitation programs to people, promoting independence and autonomy; working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide expert clinical holistic assessment and evidence based pro-active and reactive health care interventions to support patients and their carers to achieve maximum health welling and independence
• To participate in duty clinician cover, triage and MDT/allocation meetings where clinically appropriate.
• To participate in weekend and bank holiday cover. To ensure adequate and safe staffing cover is maintained for patient care.
• To act at all times as an advocate for service users, carers and relatives.
• To be responsible for standards of care within the service area; to evaluate clinical care and develop actions with relevant line managers where required.
• To maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrate that practice is up to date and evidence based through regular management and clinical supervision/mentorship.
• To provide senior specialist clinical advice and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical risk assessment and advanced decision making skills.
• Act as a role model, provide professional leadership to the team and promote the Trust values.
• Actively participate in identifying training needs of self and others and participate in appropriate training programmes.
• To keep up to date and monitor literature related to Crisis Response.
• Have a broad skill set which can include advanced skills in delivering therapy intervention in order to provide a 2-hour urgent response for patients in a crisis.
• Manage sever complex, house bound patients
• Have advanced communication skills that would include motivational and emotional support skills
• To have expert knowledge and understanding of long-term conditions and symptoms, and prognosis
• Manage a patient through the entirety of their care episode in relation to CRT assessment, symptom management, support and discharge.
This advert closes on Monday 21 Oct 2024