Senior Occupational Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialist outpatient Frailty Clinic, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive assessment, intervention, and support for older adults living with frailty and at risk of falls. The Occupational Therapist will play a key role in delivering proactive, preventative care aimed at reducing falls and maintaining independence. The role involves undertaking specialist assessments within the outpatient clinic and, where appropriate, in patients' own homes to identify factors that may impact safety, confidence, and participation in meaningful activities. Working closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will contribute to comprehensive frailty assessments. Interventions may include falls prevention strategies, environmental assessments, equipment provision, education, and signposting to community services to support individuals to remain safe and independent within their own homes and communities.,

• Undertake occupational therapy assessments within the outpatient clinic and patients' homes.
• Assess falls risk, safety, confidence, and environmental factors that may impact independence.
• Develop and implement person-centred intervention plans to support patients in achieving their goals.
• Provide falls prevention advice, education, and support to patients and carers.
• Recommend and facilitate access to equipment, adaptations, and community services where appropriate.
• Deliver group-based interventions and education sessions.
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary frailty team to contribute to comprehensive patient assessments and care planning.
• Liaise effectively with primary care, community services, social care, voluntary organisations, and carers to coordinate care.
• Support service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation in line with professional and organisational standards.
  
  This post would be well suited to an experienced Band 6 Occupational Therapist with an interest in frailty, falls prevention, and community-based rehabilitation.
Applications are also encouraged from Band 5 Occupational Therapists who can demonstrate relevant or transferable clinical experience and are looking to develop their skills within a specialist service. The role offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience working at Band 6 level within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.