Occupational Therapist - Surrey Downs H&C

at  Surrey Downs Health and Care

Surrey Downs Health & Care
We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Occupational Therapist to join our team at Surrey Downs Health and Care.
In this role, you will provide a comprehensive and coordinated range of specialist occupational therapy services in community settings. Your work will focus on maintaining or improving people’s health, independence, and quality of life. You will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary/multi-agency team, applying your specialist knowledge and skills to a diverse range of complex health conditions.
Assessment and treatment of community-dwelling individuals (including care homes).
Moving and handling risk assessment.
Training of MDT
Line managing junior team members
Support Band 7
Design and delivery of OT services across SDHC.
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
CSH Surrey
Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team in the assessment and management of a caseload of clients.
To plan, deliver and evaluate the treatment needs of clients with a variety of complex social and health care needs.
To participate as an active member of the multidisciplinary team in developing and delivering high quality and innovative services to the local population.
To promote effective teamwork within the wider Surrey Downs Health and Care, delegating activities appropriately, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.
As a therapist within Surrey Downs Health and Care there will be the opportunity to work closely alongside and potentially rotate into other sectors of the organisation.
The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands-on clinical practice, education and training and research
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