Band 6 UCRT Therapist

Job overview

Are you looking for a faced paced service with the ability to be involved in service development. The role of the UCRT therapist is to carry out rapid response functional assessments and interventions to support patients to remain safe and independent in their own home and support recovery.

The post holder will need to have a high degree of professional autonomy and be able to make critical/clinical judgements using expert knowledge, skills and experience in order to provide a gold standard of holistic care including complex management to patients with both physical and mental health conditions. As the Band 6 you will be responsible for working autonomously during shift, feeding back to Clinical Leads within UCRT. You will be expected to contribute to the service as a whole with MDTs, service development, supporting the trust and attend service meetings.

The post requires you to be able to carry equipment and travel though out the whole area commissioned.

Main duties of the job

Clinical responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive, holistic assessments of individuals, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical & clinical reasoning skills, and formulate a treatment plan.
• Undertake functional assessments for patients, by using investigative and analytical skills for those with acute/complex/rehabilitation or palliative care needs
• Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the voluntary sector, to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.
• Communicate effectively with individuals and their carers to maximise potential, and to aid motivation and understanding throughout the treatment process.
• Empower/enable patients and carers to maximise potential for self-care.
• Required to use tact and persuasive skills in order to gain the individual’s cooperation in their treatment plan.
• Be responsible for ensuring workload for self and others is planned and prioritised according to service targets and needs.
• Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit, and that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
• Where safe care is not able to be sustained to liaise with the wider community services and care coordination centre to plan and implement appropriate actions

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the role and responsibilities.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.