Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist - Vocational Rehabilitation

Job summary

This role is offered on a secondment basis for 12 months. The hours are part-time, 15 hours per week.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitable qualified and experienced Occupational therapist to undertake a project role within Berkeley Vale PCN in delivering a Vocational Rehabilitation service. Patients will been assessed and suitable advice and recommendations will be made including the appropriate issue of Med 3 Fit notes, recommendations on reasonable adjustments to employment and referral on to other MDT members including Employment Specialists within the team.

Main duties of the job

Run clinics within the primary care network where identified patients will be assessed and outcome measurement taken.

Create individual treatment plans including the issue of Med 3 Fit notes where appropriate and fitness to work reports

Advise and work with patients to implement reasonable adjustments to their employed role

Measure outcomes using the Work and Social Adjustment Scale

Record treatment interventions following Trust and PCN procedures and maintain HCPC standards of practice.

Communicate with other members of the MDT including employment specialists, GPs etc.

Maintain accurate and up to date data on all interventions to feed into the end of project report and local dashboards.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.