Central Norfolk Home First Hub Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Norwich Place therapy teams. We are looking for experienced and reliable Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist to join us in providing high quality therapy services. Primarily the role is to provide support to the Central Norfolk Home First Hub which covers the Norwich, South and North places and will involve working across a 7 day week. There will be opportunities to maintain clinical competencies by supporting work in the Urgent Community Response and D2A Therapy Team.

The service is operational during the following hours Monday to Friday 08.00 - 18.00, Saturday 09.00 - 17.00, Sunday 10.00 - 16.00

If you thrive on variety in the working day, enjoy multi-tasking and also being part of a supportive team then this role is for you., You will use your clinical skills and knowledge to complete the triage of referrals for patients on discharge to assess pathways from acute and community hospitals. This will involve assessing the patient's needs, determining priority of care, and processing and allocating referrals accordingly. Effective communication skills are required to liaise with the multidisciplinary team to ensure timely responses to referrals are achieved. Telephone assessments and reviews of individuals in their own homes or care homes following discharge will be undertaken and appropriate therapy intervention required planned to meet the patients need.

Do you have excellent interpersonal and clinical skills?Are you flexible, approachable and a team player?, Ideally you will be familiar with these clinical databases; Systmone, IRIS, Liquid Logic though training will be provided.

As a therapist it is essential that you can prioritise your own workload, possess effective communication skills, work as part of a team, and use own initiative.

The Central Norfolk Home First Hub is an integrated multidisciplinary team of health and social care colleagues. It consists of clinical leads, practice consultants, OT's, Physio's, Community assistant practitioners and social care assistant practitioners. Supported by Integrated care coordinators and business support.