Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job overview

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An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Occupational therapist specialised in rehab and reablement to work within the Community integrated Greenwich Reablement team. Greenwich. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Band 7 therapist to join the team, with excellent communication skills and a positive approach to the management of patients in community

The post holder will work closely with the service Lead and band 7 Physiotherapist  and the wider Reablement MDT Team across  borough of Greenwich. You need to be a confident autonomous practitioner with high level leadership and communication skills, a flexible problem-solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management. The role offers opportunities to develop expertise in rehabilitation and reablement alongside regular supervision, support for professional development, and involvement in research and audit projects. We are an innovative team who are a passionate about the specialist service we provide offering skilled development.

Main duties of the job

The Reablement Team provides support to Greenwich residents who have rehabilitation or reablement needs and allows them to be supported in their own homes. The aim of the team is to promote independence and safety of service users, reduce care packages and prevent early long-term placements. The team is managed by Social Services for the Royal Borough of Greenwich and support is provided by trained support workers. The Occupational Therapist will have a role in the MDT in designing and monitoring progress of rehabilitation/Reablement care plans for clients referred to the team.

The role of the Occupational therapist will be:

• To provide highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessments for clients receiving input from the Reablement Team
• To lead in the delivery of a specialist Occupational Therapy service within the multidisciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.
• To deliver a broad range of training programmes covering all aspects of Occupational Therapy rehabilitation and professional development to the multidisciplinary team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To undertake Reablement assessments, risk assessments, goal setting and support planning, reviews and make appropriate recommendations for on-going care as required.
• To deliver and support a reablement programme, empowering users and families to participate in the management of their illness or disability. Setting goal plans for community reablement workers to follow.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all professional activities
• To demonstrate theoretical knowledge of acute, multiple, complex, and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of clients
• To be responsible and accountable for management and implementation of client rehabilitation programmes in the community
• To prescribe, delegate and monitor the work of support workers in the reablement team
• To provide an excellent standard of highly specialist Occupational Therapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients including those with highly complex cases where advanced clinical reasoning skills, evidence based practice and expertise are essential to develop effective, individual care plans
• To work with Occupational therapy teams in social services and other health teams to ensure that pathways of care are followed
• To demonstrate enhanced theoretical knowledge of multiple pathologies and impairments in the assessment of community clients
• To monitor, review and continually re-assess clients care plans and objectives against outcomes measured in order to facilitate modification of packages of care/targets as appropriate to enable achievement of their goals
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that client’s needs are met.
• To work in a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care
• To provide highly specialist advice and education to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence

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