Bank B7 Occupational Therapist NC

Job overview

-Please not before applying you must have a licence and access to a care for this role .

-weekend shifts are also available depending on senior staff.

• To provide a highly specialist Community Occupational Therapy Service as part of  Unplanned Care (RR/D2A) Therapy Team, to adult clients who are diverted from hospital admission or being discharged early to the community.
• To work as a fully integrated team member sharing in administrative, co-ordination and liaison responsibilities.
• To undertake the assessment of clients’ referred to the teams to determine suitability for equipment and rehabilitation and communicating outcomes to referrers.
• To deputise for the team leaders as requested.
• To regularly supervise OT staff and other members of the team in Bands 5 and below, to ensure high quality service provision that meets standards for practice.
• To supervise OT students on practice placement by providing support aimed at maintaining and developing standards of practice.
• To undertake a community occupational therapy role with adults who have complex health and social needs referred to the Team.

Main duties of the job

To complete specialised OT assessments in patient’s homes, using evidence based tools and approaches to identify physical, cognitive and psychosocial skills and the impact of impairments on functional (ADL) tasks.

To collaborate and negotiate with clients to formulate goals as part of the overall care plan using a client centred approach, advanced clinical reasoning skills, analysis of the outcomes of assessment and specialist outcome measurement tools.

To develop and implement treatment plans for clients based on a goal setting approach, in conjunction with other members of the rehabilitation team. These clients will present with a variety of complex multi-pathologies that may include falls, trauma, neurological conditions, organ failure, musculoskeletal conditions, age related disorders, osteoporosis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To manage a defined caseload of complex and highly complex cases as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high level problem solving, clinical reasoning skills and independence of judgement.

To prioritise OT cases for intervention within an agreed framework, delegating appropriate cases to more junior OT staff.

To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions in order to measure outcomes and quality of intervention.

To be responsible for gaining valid, informed consent for assessment, treatment interventions and sharing of information in compliance with legal and professional guidelines.  To be able to interpret and follow these guidelines in circumstances where clients do not have capacity to provide informed consent.

To assess clients referred to the team to determine suitability for team interventions and safety at home, liaising with the team and referrers, communicating outcomes of assessment and offering advice on resources.