Occupational Therapy Technician - Community Stroke Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Warwickshire Integrated Community Stroke service. The post is for a Occupational Therapy Technician in the North team and is fixed term for 12 months., To provide an effective service delivery within the speciality.

To work autonomously and manage an agreed caseload of patients under the supervision of an Occupational Therapist, meeting the needs of a wide range of patient conditions, behaviours and physical requirements.

To follow the recognised professional standards, the agreed therapy pathway and best practice in your designated area of speciality under the supervision of an Occupational Therapist.

The community post covers two distinct care pathways - active rehabilitation and neuro management . These pathways offer different intervention models to best meet the needs of stroke patients. As part of the multidisciplinary team in the community, you will need to be able to work independently within patients' homes under distant supervision and have the ability to effectively prioritise and manage a demanding workload

The post holder will need to be able to plan and implement interventions using a knowledge of Occupational Therapy best practice and clinical reasoning, analysing contributing clinical, social and environmental factors.

Enthusiastic and committed individuals are required with experience in stroke rehabilitation. You will be expected to develop effective therapeutic relationships with the patients, liaising with carers, MDT and external agencies regularly, and therefore will require excellent communication skills. You will be expected to provide effective service delivery and meet recognised professional standards, therapy pathways and best practice to deliver the business objectives in line with Trusts policies and service protocols.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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