University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is one of the UK’s leading teaching Trusts, providing acute and specialist services to a population of over 1 million. We have a strong reputation for innovation, clinical research, teaching and high-quality patient care and are the principal teaching hospital for Warwick Medical School.

We employ over 9000 staff, have a turnover of £660 million and have 1.7 million patient contacts a year. The Trust comprises of two busy hospitals with over 1,300 beds and 32 operating theatres, running clinical services from a number of other sites.

Our vision is to be a national and international leader in healthcare; our values-driven organisational development programme and our UHCWi methodology developed through our partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute are key to us achieving this vision by focussing on improving services via lean methodology.

Occupational Therapist – Coventry Patient Pathway

Are you committed to making a difference to the patient pathway beyond organisational or service boundaries? Health and social care providers within Coventry are committed to supportIng the Band 6 Occupational Therapist role to provide care on a rotational basis.

The rotational programme has been developed to provide an opportunity for the successful candidates to increase their breadth of experience across both inpatient and community settings, following the patient journey and translating learning into improvement across the health and social care system. As a result, the candidate will have an influential position in steering the programme.

The candidate will experience 9-12 month placements in the following areas:

• REACT team
• Inpatient Medicine team
• Integrated Discharge team
• Local Authority community team

We would love to hear from candidates that can demonstrate the following skills:

• Effective communication – in person, written and over the telephone
• Conducting assessments in a variety of environments
• Providing instruction to clients and their carers to enable them to achieve maximum functional independence
• Working both independently and as part of a team

• Organising an allocated workload, planning and prioritising work to achieve objectives and meet deadlines
• Developing effective working relationships with patients, colleagues and other agencies
• Maintaining accurate case records on the computer database

You will be experienced in the following areas:

• Undertaking comprehensive assessments of patients referred to the service
• Specialist knowledge of rehabilitation and general knowledge of adult conditions and multi-pathology
• Interpreting and analysing clinical and non-clinical data to form an accurate picture of the patients functional ability
• Devising comprehensive intervention plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising evidence-based practice to deliver enablement programmes
• Guiding & monitoring unqualified staff in the delivery of enablement and intervention plans.

In return you can expect not only an attractive benefits package, but ongoing support from leaders, managers and peers to drive forward this programme. You will be employed by University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust and rotate across organisations during your rotation to Coventry City Council.

To apply please view the job advertisement here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916397953