Rotational B5 Community Occupational Therapist
We have two exciting opportunities for aspiring and motivated Occupational Therapists to join our Band 5 Community Rotation within North Herts ICT and DH2A East (covering ULV, LLV, H&E area).
You will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge within a wide range of specialist teams, including our Community Integrated Services, Discharge Home to Assess, Early Support Discharge Team, Inpatient Rehab and Neurological Units (Herts and Essex Hospital, Danesbury) and Children and Young Persons Services.
You will have an opportunity to network within our highly skilled and experienced pool of Occupational Therapists at HCT, and will be supported along your career with training and regular supervision to ensure your practices are relevant and reflected of up to date practices.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
* Be part of a skill mixed team delivering high quality Occupational Therapy Assessment and Interventions.
* Work in partnership with GPs, Adult Social Care, Continuing Health Care and local equipment and wheelchair providers.
* Be offered a wide range of training opportunities including, preceptorship, functional assessment and moving and handling training.
* Have access to regular clinical supervision sessions to support your practice.
* Have experience in using electronic records and be able to be a mobile worker.
* Have a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Job responsibilities
* To provide assessment and treatment packages of high-quality healthcare for patients' rehabilitation needs in a variety of settings. These will include bed bases, patients' homes, and community settings.
* To hold responsibility for your own caseload, working without direct supervision.
* To actively participate in regular formal and informal supervision and training, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences and reflective practice with a senior Occupational Therapist.
* Represent the occupational therapy service and/or individual patients at the multidisciplinary team meetings. To ensure the delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service and integrate occupational therapy intervention into a patients' multidisciplinary treatment programme.
* To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment used within the role including manual handling equipment, ADL equipment, and other patient appliances and aids.
* To be responsible for organising and planning your own caseload to meet service and patient priorities.
* To be adaptable and re-adjust plans as situations change/ arise.
* To undertake, as directed, the collection of data for use in service audit and research projects.
* To participate in research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of MDT audit and departmental research initiatives.
* To assist in the clinical supervision and education of rehabilitation assistants/therapy assistant practitioners.
* To assist in the clinical supervision of Occupational Therapy students on placement as required.
* To liaise with consultants, patients, family, carers, multidisciplinary team, allied health professionals, nurses, Adult Care Services, voluntary sector, enablement carers, GPs, acute hospital teams, Community Health Services, Continuing Care Panel, sports and leisure, Hertfordshire Equipment Service, educational settings, SEND, and others as applicable.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Occupational Therapy degree.
* Experience as a band 5/student in acute or in-patient adult rehabilitation, elderly care, and neurology.
Physical Skills
* Ability to carry out patient manual handling tasks.
* Ability to carry equipment such as wheelchairs and commodes in and out of stores, cars, and patients' homes.
General
* Hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Experience and Knowledge
* Knowledge and/or experience of using a range of therapeutic occupational therapy interventions for the treatment of patients with a range of conditions.
* Able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
Knowledge and Skill
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, other health professionals, patients of all ages and their relatives/carers, and other non-health professionals.
* Ability to work in a team and have an understanding of what makes good teamwork.
Mental Effort
* Ability to work under time constraints and ability to work autonomously.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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