Band 7 Occupational Therapist - adult community | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

OverviewCommunity Occupational Therapist (Adult) – Band 7

Highly specialist Occupational Therapist with experience of working in the community. Work with vulnerable adults to provide expert assessment and advice, and arrange service provision to improve independence, promote safety and adapt the environment. Contribute to day to day running of the service, and service improvement. Offer line management and supervision to occupational therapists and occupational therapy technicians. Working within adult social care to include; duty/triage, major adaptations and localities.

Interview date: TBC

Responsibilities

Assess functional needs of adults in their home environment, recommend and implement an occupational therapy plan to optimise function and quality of life.

Ensure that assessment and intervention are culturally sensitive.

Contribute to overall operation of the service.

Support the team development in a specific area of community occupational therapy, e.g. intake and duty, complex manual handling, major adaptations.

Supervision of occupational therapists and occupational therapy technicians.

About the Trust and ServicesCroydon Health Services NHS Trust provides hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. These include:

Croydon University Hospital

Purley Hospital

The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heath

Community bases at Purley, Sanderstead, New Addington, Broad Green, Woodside

A minor injuries unit in New Addington

The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 3,500 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Vision and PromisesOur Vision: “Excellent integrated care for you and your family, when and where you need it”

Our 5 key ‘Here for you’ promises to the people of Croydon are:

You feel cared for by helpful and welcoming staff

You feel in safe hands with highly professional staff

You feel confident in your treatment from skilled teams of compassionate clinicians

You feel we value your time with convenient appointments, minimal waiting and care closer to home

You feel it’s getting better all the time as we continue to improve our services

We are one of 17 Trusts in the country who have been accepted as national pioneers on staff engagement and empowerment, through the adoption of "Listening into Action" as a new way of working. The approach we are taking to “Listening into Action” is new and different.

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