Specialist Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We know the power of rehab. Want to make real change? Join us to help patients excel with their rehab goals. Using your core occupational therapy skills, you will design creative and innovative therapy solutions for patients.

• Our energetic and passionate team consists of physiotherapists, rehab support workers, social workers and nurses. Working together you will support adults with client-centred rehab programmes, optimising their independence and quality of life.
• We want the focus on rehab for our patients and not paperwork. Using the power of technology we can take notes ‘on the go’ with our various systems EPIC, Rover and Dragon.
• Our core working sites in Brixton and Streatham are centred within vibrant and exciting communities.

What else?

• We have excellent access to a vast array of ADL equipment and have a large cohort of rehab support workers.
• You’ll benefit from our award winning “Showing We Care About You Programme”. It offers many types of support (financial wellbeing, career development, value and recognition, work-life balance) to help you in your professional, personal and family life.
• We are one of the UKs leading providers of hospital and community-based healthcare, research and education. As part of the Kings Health Trust, you will have opportunities for comprehensive training and development to continuously improve patient care and progress your career.

Main duties of the job

Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 18 years & older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations.

Our service aims to:

• Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
• Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.

Our Professional Offer to You: • Further develop your clinical skills, e.g. assess for suitable equipment, minor home adaptations, cognitive assessment, functional and Moving & Handling assessments. • Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving and joint working with other health and social care colleagues. • Develop management and operational skills  • Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development. • Support you to be involved in OT meetings. • Provide you with supervision and clinical support.

At GSTT we are committed to providing: • Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings. • An annual appraisal and PDR. • Structured in-service development programs and supervisions. • Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation. • Training links to London Southbank and King’s College Universities. • Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Summary -To have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients on caseload.

-To delegate rehabilitation and care tasks to RSWs and Senior RSWs.-To provide case management for adults and older people through intensive short term support and rehabilitation programmes. Goal setting with clients in order to maximise their independence in the community, facilitate early discharge from hospital, reduce reliance on care and reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.

-To work, frequently as a lone practitioner and at times in conjunction with team colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community including client’s homes and residential care settings to meet the individual needs of the multi-cultural population in an inner city area.

-To work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the regulatory body (Health Professions Council), professional body (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy), government, Trust and department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional registration.

-To work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and client centred approach

-To be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. To work towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.

-To support the department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their hours flexibly and contribute fully to both existing and new rotas over a 7 day week, including weekday and weekend on call shifts.