Specialist Occupational Therapist | Calderdale and NHS Foundation Trust

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The post holder will work as part of the Reablement Service comprising occupational therapy, physiotherapy, reablement support workers and other local authority staff. There are currently 4 Reablement Teams based in different venues across Calderdale. The teams are an integrated partnership between health and social care, and support and rehabilitate people in their own homes, either facilitating early discharge from hospital;

preventing the need for admission to hospital, residential or respite care; reducing long-term dependency on care; and promoting self-management.

The Reablement service provides a time limited period of assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and reablement, according to patient centred goals for people aged 18 years and over. It comprises 4 geographically based teams and you may be expected to work across the 4 teams or cross site as required.

Service users may have a range of needs and conditions, such as deconditioning, frailty, neurological conditions such as stroke, acute and chronic musculoskeletal problems, a history or risk of falls, respiratory disorders, orthopaedic conditions including recent surgery, and complex multi pathology conditions which may include patients with early dementia.

The post holder will be an employee of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust and will be line managed as such. However, the post holder will work in an integrated service alongside employees of the local authority.

See job description for full details of the responsibilities and duties of the role within Calderdale Reablement service.

CHFT is an integrated acute and community Trust serving diverse communities across Calderdale and Kirklees, with strong partnerships across West Yorkshire. We are proud of our One Culture of Care — caring for each other with the same compassion, kindness and respect that we show our patients — and of the values that underpin how we work: we put people first, we go see, we work together to get results, and we do the must dos.

CHFT is recognised as a forward looking, digitally enabled Trust, with a strong track record of using data, innovation and system collaboration to improve quality, safety and outcomes. We are ambitious about the role that acute trusts play in prevention, population health and reducing inequalities, and this post sits at the heart of that agenda.

See job description for full details of the responsibilities and duties of the role within Calderdale Reablement service.

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