Occupational Therapist - Mildenhall

Job overview

Band 6 Occupational Therapist, Mildenhall Integrated Neighbourhood Team , Permanent , Part time opportunity

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Occupational therapist to work in a friendly and well–led community health and social care team.

We are developing the Integrated Care Model and therefore have close, co-located working relationship with our Social Care colleagues.

• The roles include holistic assessment and treatment of people in their own homes.
• The opportunity to work in an autonomous way in the community.
• To work with people with long term conditions, palliative conditions and rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• To work with all health care professionals, and our wider multidisciplinary team to provide an integrated service to all people who use our service.
• To be committed to providing a high standard of care and quality at all times.

As well as the essential person specifications as on the job descriptions, you will need to have good communication skills, initiative, and have a flexible approach.

In return the role can give you:

• The opportunity to be part of Integrated Care delivery.
• Being part of a supportive team
• The opportunity to get to know the people on your caseload.
• Active support with your CPD including a programme of in-service training and supervision and other development opportunities which will help build a highly skilled and competent Band 6 therapist.
• Possible lease car
• NHS terms and conditions

Main duties of the job

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 to manage their caseloads 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.
• Assist the Team manager and Clinical Specialist OT to develop therapy services within the team.
• Identify training needs of self and junior staff through the appraisal process.
• Participate and support the Practice Placement Education of professional, NVQ and work experience students.

For more information please contact Ian Markham – Community Clinical Specialist OT 07811940926 or [email protected]

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description for more detail in the documents attached

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 ensure junior Occupational Therapy team members maintain robust communication systems within their own profession and with other professionals.
• To contribute to relevant meetings with Suffolk Community Healthcare. 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 any verbal complaints are dealt with in a sensitive, effective and timely way in accordance with local and Trust complaints procedure.
• 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 Suffolk Community Healthcare 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 identify the training needs of self and junior staff through the service appraisal process to inform personal and team development plans.
• 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.