Occupational Therapist - Medical/Vascular/Surgery

Job overview

• This post holder will be an autonomous practitioner, taking a lead in coordinating and providing a highly specialist occupational therapy service to patients within medical/surgical tea
• To will provide assessment and treatment for patients with a wide range of complex physical, sensory, perceptual and cognitive problems within inpatient, community settings
• To will be expected to manage their own caseload working alongside the multi-disciplinary team and other external agencies to ensure highly specialist treatment plans
• To will be expected to work collaboratively with patients, carers and with colleagues in health and social services to ensure effective service planning, policy and delivery of services to their specific patient group
• To will be the joint lead therapist for this area of service and represent the department at relevant meetings both in and outside the Trust
• The post holder will contribute to departmental meetings and lead complex audit and regularly undertakes research activities in specialist area
• They will be responsible for planning and delivering highly specialist training to other OTs, professionals and Patient/Carers on all aspects of sensory, perceptual, physical and functional skills.

Main duties of the job

Role Responsibilities:

Working Relationships and communication requirements of your joWork with patients, family and MDT staff to identify goals as part of the overall care pla

Liaise with the multidisciplinary team, which includes dietician, speech and language therapist, physiotherapist, ward nursing staff, social workers doctors, community OT/PT/SLT, outreach team

Attend reviews and case conferences, communicating relevant observations and information as a member of the tea

Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills with patients and carers, team members, OT colleagues, and other external agencies e.g. Social Services, equipment stores, wheelchair service

Use sound judgement, reasoning, communication and negotiation skills to establish a therapeutic relationship in complex and sensitive cases, managing barriers to communication

Communicate complex and sensitive information relating to medical conditions and OT process, requiring skills of training, empathy, reassurance, negotiation, and motivation e.g. patients with terminal illness, limited rehab potentia

Liaise and establish effective and efficient communication networks with patients, carers and other health workers and internal/external agencies throughout the various departments within the hospital and local communit

Promote awareness of the OT role within the MDT, negotiating priorities as appropriat

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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