Band 7 Locum Acute Occupational Therapist

Job Title:  UEC Therapist – Band 7
Location:  Shropshire Community Health Trust
Area:  Shropshire NHS
Salary:  £negotiable  
Job Type:  Locum
Contract length:  Ongoing
Job Details:  Urgent and Emergency Care. Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist required as Therapist Lead for Care Transfer Hub. Likely to be able to offer work 4-8 weeks. JD available on request:

• As a senior clinician within the Care Transfer Hub (CTH) multidisciplinary team you will work with a “home first” philosophy. You will be an advocate for the patient in determining the right pathway for them as individuals following a discharge to assess model.
• You will work in collaboration with other health and social care professionals in an integrated way providing autonomous clinical, professional decisionmaking to support the planning of complex discharges.
• The post holder will develop the ethos of multidisciplinary, integrated care and seamless services within acute and or community hospitals ensuring that discharge planning is delivered to the highest possible standard.
• The post holder will be working flexibly across both acute hospital sites and may be required to work in community settings as part of their role and participate in 7 day working when appropriate service delivery allows and commences. 

The postholder will:

• Be an autonomous practitioner and manage a complex caseload as appropriate to the role in alignment with the agreement between the Operational Service Manager.
• Management of patients will be based on, evidence-based approaches in line with NICE guidance.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for management and discharge of patients whilst working collaboratively in highly complex and contentious discharge planning situations.
• Provide highly specialist advice regarding patient management and the discharge options available to the MDT patients and carers.
• Support positive risk management, responding to and resolving problems to reduce risk, improve safety and enable least restrictive discharge planning
• Demonstrate advanced skills in communicating complex or contentious information.
• Demonstrate and apply a high level of understanding of the effects of disability, loss of function, loss of independence and frailty.
• Act as a first line for staff clinical queries about referrals and risk issues.                 
• Ensure the service operates in line with the Organisations policies and protocols procedures.
• To develop and maintain professional working relationships with the Care Homes commissioned to provide care and support for patients discharged from the acute and community beds.

Working hours: Full time. 37.5 hours per week. Rota is Monday – Sunday (weekend work is part of the role)

Code:  U.003010.B18332