We have an exciting opportunity for an Band 7 Occupational Therapist to join our Urgent Care team! You'll conduct thorough assessments and deliver short-term interventions aimed at preventing hospital admissions and halting further decline for at-risk service users. As a vital member of our virtual multidisciplinary team, you'll provide expert guidance, manage complex cases, and ensure safe management of service users.

Your responsibilities will include clinical triage, staying updated on guidelines, leading clinical training, and collaborating closely with various healthcare professionals and organisations to deliver person-centered care. With a focus on empowering service users, you'll develop care plans and rehabilitation programs tailored to their needs, fostering informed decision-making and active participation in their care journey.

The role is required to cover across the BaNES area, working primarily out from the Care Co-ordination Centre in Peasdown-St-John, mobile and home working is essential.

Currently the hours of UCR service are spread over 7 days - 8am to 8pm however this may be subject to change in the future.

Interview date: Wednesday 15^th May at Peasedown St John Care Co-ordination Centre

As a Band 7 Occupational Therapist - Urgent Care Team you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset

You will feel valued as a Band 7 Occupational Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Salary of £43,742 - £50,056 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
• Free tea and coffee 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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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