Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Frailty East PCN

We are seeking an experienced and innovative Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our existing community Frailty Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapists working in our East PCN.

The post-holder will work as part of our multi-disciplinary PCN Wellbeing Team, which includes two other Frailty Occupational Therapists, Social Prescribers, a Health and Wellbeing Coach and Safeguarding Care Coordinators.

This role is an extended scope, advanced practice role working in the community with people in their own homes. The purpose of the role is to provide advanced Occupational Therapy clinical assessments, interventions and planning. This includes advanced care planning discussions. Liaising closely with the MDT including the GPs at the surgeries to facilitate and support these assessments. To proactively manage frailty and ageing well in the community, reducing un-necessary hospital admissions and supporting individuals to achieve the best possible quality of life., To undertake comprehensive frailty assessments from an advanced clinical Occupational Therapy perspective. Delivering specialist Occupational Therapy interventions to support independence, function, safety and quality of life.

Deliver person centred, specialist Occupational Therapy intervention and goal planning, working collaboratively with the person, their support network, GPs and the wider MDT to improve patient outcomes.

Identifying risks, proactive planning and strategies to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions in collaboration with the wider MDT.

Facilitation and proactive engagement in Occupational Therapy practice placement education.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.