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West Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership
Occupational Therapy Service
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL AT HOWDEN
Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist
37.5Hrs Permanent
Discharge to Assess / Community – Stroke Services
Are you an experienced Occupational therapist with strong leadership qualities and assessment skills, seeking a new and diverse challenge?
West Lothian continues to invest in delivering community assessment and rehabilitation closer to home through our Home First programme. This programme has seen significant investment in our community AHP teams and has recently secured funding to introduce a community single point of contact to enhance the patient pathways.
We are looking for an experienced band 6 practitioner to strengthen our growing team and deliver person-centered assessment and therapy across our pre-admission community pathways, discharge to assess function, virtual community hospital ward, and within our step-down Intermediate care facilities. This post is specifically to support the transition and rehabilitation of Stroke patients upon discharge within the first few weeks at home.
This post requires experience of Stroke Rehabilitation preferably at a senior level. Community Rehabilitation experience is also desirable.
The successful applicant would be joining a very stable and dynamic multi- disciplinary team with a passion for integrated working putting patient outcomes and experience at the heart of their practice. This includes working closely with the Stroke Unit AHPs to identify and facilitate early supported discharge.
We are a forward thinking, dynamic and high performing Partnership promoting excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate support to our patients within West Lothian. This means being a provider of excellent patient safety, putting the patient at the heart of all decisions and supporting them in the right setting by the right skilled professional at the right time to optimize their outcomes.
We would love it if you could come and join us and be part of the West Lothian Home First story. For informal enquiries please contact Irene Davidson on 07970 297973 or email irene.davidson@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk Dawn O Robertson on 01506 524 149 or email dawn.o.robertson@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk