Community Occupational Therapist - MACC Team (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Community - Whittington Health NHS Trust
Whittington Health NHS Trust – Wood Green, Greater London
If you are excited about working in an innovative community team, this opportunity to work with the Multi Agency Care and Coordination Team (MACCT) is for you!
We are looking for someone who has excellent holistic personalised care skills, able to support clinicians to improve the physical & mental health and wellbeing of clients living in the borough of Haringey. Although this is advertised as Band 6 post, we are happy to accept applications from Band 5 in a development post to a band 6 dependent on achieving Band 6 competencies during the probation period.
The role is a great opportunity to work with other professionals in the team including Physiotherapists, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapist, Community Matrons, Mental Health Workers and Care & Dementia Navigators, supported by a fantastic administration and MDT coordinator team.
You will be committed to addressing Health and Social Inequalities for your clients and work towards the team purpose of; Managing health, wellbeing and preventing crises through innovative partnership working.
You will be supported to develop skills and competences and have the opportunity to stretch and develop your skills with the support of the team and with regular professional supervision.
Job Summary
To provide high quality efficient and effective holistic occupational therapy assessment and intervention to the clients care coordinated within the MACCT MDT.
To provide specialist occupational therapy assessments and creative personalised treatment programmes co-produced alongside client’s strengths and their support network to support them to manage with complex health conditions both physical and psychological and to support the stabilisation of their social situations.
To promote good collaborative working links with partnership agencies across the health, social and voluntary sectors to ensure the clients have the best possible support network to prevent unplanned hospital admissions.
To be an active motivated member of the multidisciplinary team and participate in projects and service developments as identified by the successful candidates, their colleagues and managers including audits, quality improvement projects and the promotion of integrated personalised care approach. To provide support and clinical supervision to colleagues or junior staff, and to share specialist knowledge with others working within the MACC Team and the associated teams, hubs, care providers, clients and their support networks.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
To be professional and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the standards and guidelines of the trust, the team, professional services, and appropriate professional body.
To stay up-to-date with new emerging evidence and evidence-based practice for frailty and long-term conditions and be able to utilise this to continue to develop the service going forward.
To undertake advanced assessment of people with frailty who present with complex multi-pathology amalgamating in both physical and mental health presentations. To undertake joint visits with all multi-disciplinary team members where appropriate and provide specialist advice on treatment/management regimes.
To complete assessments and interventions in a variety of settings utilising a range of methods to do this e.g., face to face and virtual, the clients home and in community settings.
To be able to manage a caseload of people with complex health and social care needs.
To provide specialist advice for clients, their families and colleagues based on up-to-date theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
To ensure that high standards of clinical practice and patient care are maintained and to ensure that other clinicians in the team do likewise, through ongoing competency assessment and supervision/appraisal.
Leadership
To support, supervise and appraise the work of supervised staff, students, and rehabilitation assistants/care navigators and to induct new staff as required.
To participate in the Trust Appraisal Scheme, both as appraisee and as an appraiser.
To assist and support the Clinical Leads and service managers, taking an active part in patient engagement, audit and project leading when required.
To supervise undergraduate students as required and to liaise with academic institutions regarding student performance and placement within the team.
In line with the Trust’s commitment to Clinical Governance, to identify and participate in quality improvement (QI) within the team alongside clinical audit and evaluation of clinical effectiveness.
Research/Audit
To be proactive in local and national audits in order to assess the effectiveness and productivity of MACCT/ Haringey Anticipatory Care and service provision.
To participate in and critically evaluate research findings, to disseminate them appropriately and implement findings to improve the service and patient care.
Note: this job description is a reflection of the current position and the post holder is expected to view it as a guide rather than an exact description of all duties and responsibilities. It may be varied from time to time in consultation with the post holder.
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