Are you interested in becoming a Band 6 Occupational Therapist?
An exciting opportunity has arisen, allowing you to undertake holistic needs-led assessments in partnership with service users, patients, and carers.
You will manage a personal caseload of complex, highly complex, and statutory work, acting as an autonomous practitioner evidencing high levels of problem solving, decision making, and independent judgement in various community settings.
We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, and are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. Therefore, your role will involve Community therapy and Intermediate care work. There is a division between these areas of work.
To effectively undertake the role, you will be required to work flexibly to ensure a consistent and robust service, covering seven-day working including weekends and bank holidays, or working in other localities as necessary to meet the needs of the service.
To explore innovative ways of collaborative working between general practice, health and social services, and the private and voluntary sector in line with the Care Trust's integration agenda.
Main duties of the job
1. Responsibility for managing an intensive acute caseload.
2. Triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establish presenting risks.
3. Assessment and treatment of patients in a variety of community settings, mainly the patient's own home, but could include nursing homes and residential homes.
4. Work with a patient-centred approach, taking responsibility for planning, implementing, and reviewing OT interventions for patients and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision, and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission. Interventions include manual handling assessment and equipment provision, simple and complex equipment, and adaptation prescription.
5. Carry out home assessment visits with patients from temporary places of safety, contributing to the planning and facilitation of discharge to their own homes as appropriate.
6. Supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post or Assistant Practitioner as required.
About us
Paignton & Brixham Health and Well-Being Team is a large but supportive team that enjoys mentoring team members and students and is passionate about delivering quality care to housebound patients.
We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, making a difference and helping patients through their recovery and returning back to health and independence. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a healthy work/home life balance, with the opportunity to work autonomously.
Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay. Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:
1. NHS Pension Scheme
2. Childcare at our day nursery
3. Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full-time workers) plus bank/public holidays
4. Staff Discounts
5. Career development and training opportunities
6. Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive, and focused on quality. We focus on solutions and people's strengths. We encourage outside-the-box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team Torbay and South Devon.#CareToJoinUsTSD
Why work with us
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
2. Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
3. CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post-graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
4. Proven post-graduate experience
5. Wheelchair Accreditation
6. Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment
7. Knowledge of vulnerable adults protocols and procedures
8. Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
1. Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
2. Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
3. CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post-graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
4. Experience within the NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example, orthopaedics, elderly care, and musculoskeletal conditions
5. Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Knowledge and experience
Essential
1. Proven post-graduate experience
2. Wheelchair Accreditation
3. Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment
4. Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and social care
5. Understanding of National Service Frameworks for Older People, specifically aspects referring to Stroke, Falls, and Intermediate Care.
6. Student Placement Educators Course
7. Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations
8. Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills
9. Proven ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision and make autonomous decisions
10. Evidence of ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
11. Knowledge of specialised disability equipment
12. Therapeutic and manual handling skills
13. Detailed understanding of roles of multidisciplinary team members/health and social care agencies
14. Understanding of clinical governance issues
15. IT skills
Desirable
1. Clinical leadership skills
2. Recruitment and selection training
3. Appraisals and supervision training
4. Experience of clinical audit.
Specific Skills
Essential
1. Knowledge of vulnerable adults protocols and procedures
2. Elderly care/rehabilitation to include multi-pathology and dementia
3. Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
1. Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
2. Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/taking baseline observations.
3. Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and proven ability to carry out fast track assessments
4. Stroke rehabilitation
5. Mental Health conditions
6. Community rehabilitation
7. Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working.
8. Experience of initiating change in the workplace
9. Experience of seating and postural management
Employer details
Employer name
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Kings Ash House
Kings Ash Road
Paignton
TQ3 3XZ
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