To manage a selected caseload of patients, under regular but not constant supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist, to carry out the assessment and treatment of individual patients and groups, on the wards, in the Occupational Therapy department and to assist on home visits. To carry out alone, under guidance of an Occupational Therapist, follow up visits to patients in their homes.
To arrange, under guidance from an Occupational Therapist, for the provision of standard specialist disability equipment and to teach and demonstrate the use of equipment or other techniques to optimise the patients' functional ability, independence and safety.
To demonstrate understanding and implications of manual handling legislation and current best practice, applying this knowledge under guidance from an Occupational Therapist to the practice of therapeutic manual handling.
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