Occupational Therapist - Mildenhall INT

Job overview

The opportunity has arisen to recruit to our Occupational Therapy service at the West Suffolk Foundation Trust with a Band 5 part time post within the Mildenhall and Brandon INT.

The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own homes, residential care homes, and in clinics, by performing holistic assessment and delivery of therapy interventions.

• Formulation of individual specialist management/treatment plan for each client using clinical reasoning skills and utilising a wide range of highly specialised physical, sensory and cognitive treatment skills following analysis of information received from client, carers and referrer and any other professionals involved in the clients’ care as necessary.
• Support junior staff and learners using evidence based, client centred principles to assess, plan and implement, specialised programmes of care and evaluate their interventions.
• Work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital or prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• Work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non-statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
• Participate and support the Practice Placement Education of professional, NVQ and work experience students.

Main duties of the job

This post would be suitable for someone seeking to develop their occupational therapy skills and knowledge in a really autonomous role.

We would also consider experienced staff who are returning to practice.

The post holder will enjoy working as part of a team player, and would suit someone who is forward thinking, conscientious, and motivated to work autonomously and holistically.

You will benefit from working in a very supportive CAB team, department and NHS Trust that advocates continuous improvement and training opportunities to help develop our staff.

You will be provided with regular supervision from an experienced clinical specialist occupational therapist.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for full duties and responsibilities.

Key tasks:

Communication

• To establish, maintain and participate in robust multi-disciplinary communication networks, for self and team, with clients, carers and other health workers and agencies involved in client care.
• To promote awareness of the role of Occupational Therapy within the team, in relation to all aspects of patient care, negotiating priorities where appropriate, informing the Integrated Services Implementation Plan using high level of presentation and training skills.
• To promote the role of the multi-disciplinary rehabilitation services within Suffolk Community Healthcare, in relation to all aspects of client care, informing the Integrated Services Implementation Plan.
• To participate in and maintain robust professional communication systems within own and other professional teams.
• To contribute to relevant meetings with Suffolk Community Healthcare colleagues. To provide highly complex information to the clients, clinicians and other agencies to assist in decision-making, using persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and re-assurance skills.
• To ensure that self and junior members of the team maintain up-to-date written and electronic data, where applicable, in accordance with professional and standards and in compliance with Confidentiality of Information policy.
• To ensure self and all members of the team provide therapy reports relevant to the clients’ situations

Personal and People Development

• To contribute to a robust induction process for all new staff in the multi-disciplinary services and all students on placement.
• To participate and support the Practice Placement Education of professional, NVQ and work experience students.
• To act as specialist witness for NVQ candidates.
• To plan, contribute and participate in robust in-service training programmes for the staff.
• To apply highly developed specialist knowledge and skills in order to demonstrate professional competence and fitness to practice in multi-disciplinary services.
• To demonstrate ongoing personal development of self and junior staff through participation in internal and external training and development opportunities, recording learning outcomes in a portfolio.
• Develop self and others through regular one to ones and supervision.