Join our friendly team as an Band 6 Occupational Therapist at HCRG Care Group and get AFC terms and conditions including the NHS Pension!

Playing an integral role within our Urgent Community Response Team (UCR), which aims to ensure crisis response care is available to all people within their homes or usual place of residence, including care/residential homes, within two hours, the post holder will be the lead clinician in the assessment of patients’ holistic needs and will devise a clear clinical management plan.

This service operates over a seven-day rota, 365 days a year and is operational between the hours of 8.00 am – 8.00 pm, 7 days per week.

As a Band 6 Occupational Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Ormskirk District and General Hospital

You will feel valued as a Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location 
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year  
• *The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

You will aim to facilitate a period of stabilisation of the patients’ condition to prevent the urgent need becoming an emergency need and supporting patients to restore or maintain their independence in the community. In order to achieve this your main responsibilities will include:

• To assess and identify the individual needs of referred patients and their carers, planning and implementing appropriate treatment programmes
• Respond to urgent requests for patient home visits where the focus of the visit is admission avoidance
• To record and report findings appropriately following the standard procedures used by the service to maintain high levels of written / verbal communication

We are seeking a friendly and ambitious candidate to join the welcoming culture of our UCR team. You will have the following:

• Current and valid HCPC registration
• Diploma / degree in Occupational Therapy
• Excellent communication skills, ability to share information at MDT case conference

Here at HCRG Care Group, we always look to develop our colleagues wherever possible, you will be encouraged to explore different methods of continuous professional development through both out inhouse training team and/or external methods

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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