Specialist Occupational Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Occupational therapist with acute medicine experience to join the Medicine therapy team at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

The acute Medicine team is based across both Sandwell General Hospital and Birmingham City Hospital. The team comprises of physiotherapist, occupational therapist, therapy assistant practitioners and a frailty activity assistant. The entire qualified therapists are registered with the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) and are also members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Royal College of Occupational therapy.We work closely with members of the other allied health professional like Dieticians and Speech and language therapist to support the independence and rehabilitation of our service users

We work to improve the Therapy status of inpatients and the management of long term conditions. We work in a variety of specialist areas including Care of the elderly wards, Cardiology, Haematology, Gastroenterology and General Medical wards. We also work very closely with other teams within the therapy cohort namely Respiratory, stroke (neuro), Macmillan and Trauma and Orthopaedic therapy teams. The Medicine therapy team have also close ties with the community rehab beds based at Rowley Regis and Leasowes to establish appropriate patients are sent through and also for an efficient continuity of care from an acute to a community setting.