Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Up to 37.5 hours per week. Do you have an interest in Urgent Care and supporting clients at home avoiding a hospital admission? We are looking for an Occupational Therapist with a can do attitude to join our patient and staff centred team.

The Community Crisis Response Team are an interdisciplinary team who support clients at home during a period of acute physical illness across 7 days/week to avoid hospital admission. We are committed to client centred care and have a culture of shared learning, integrated working and promote positive risk taking. We are also committed to being the Greatest Place to Work with our staff centred improvement project.

As a member of the team you will learn skills and competencies in holistic Urgent Care assessments. Occupational Therapy is a valued discipline within the MDT and you will gain great satisfaction in using your skills, in collaboration with trusted health and social care colleagues, to work with patients during their health crisis. Additionally there are exciting opportunities for working with Acute Response Practitioners to expand understanding of physical assessment and clinical reasoning of frail elderly patients.

We also have exciting projects alongside SWASFT to increase the number of people we treat and care for at home with a current focus on falls.

Staff are supported with regular training programmes to meet team competencies, as well as encouragement to attend relevant professional courses and engage in service development.

As an OT in CCRT you will work as part of a large MDT and be able to work as an autonomous proactive professional holding your own caseload of complex acutely unwell patients in the community aiming to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting in education and management of junior staff and students, and have the opportunity to develop clinical and managerial skills whilst working with a complex and varied caseload.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to gain holistic assessment skills and knowledge in a supportive multi-disciplinary team or someone wishing to transition from the Acute to Community setting.

This post will certainly benefit your career pathway, enable you to use your OT training and expand your skills in assessment of frail elderly patients.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees’ development, offering protected CPD time, training…