Are you interested in becoming a Band 6 Occupational Therapist?
An exciting opportunity has arisen that allows 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 a variety of community settings and situations.
To effectively undertake the role, you will be required to work flexibly to ensure a consistent and robust service, which covers seven-day working including weekend and bank holiday work, or working in other localities as necessary to meet the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
* Responsibility for managing an intensive acute caseload.
* Triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establishing presenting risks.
* 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.
* Working 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.
* To 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.
* Supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post or Assistant Practitioner as required.
About us
Torquay Health and Well-Being Team is a large but supportive team 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. The team 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 available to you as an employee:
* NHS Pension Scheme
* Childcare at our day nursery
* Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full-time workers) plus bank/public holidays
* Staff Discounts
* Career development and training opportunities
* Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline
Why work with us
Job responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
* Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
* Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
* CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post-graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
* Experience within the NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example, orthopaedics, elderly care, and musculoskeletal conditions
* Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Knowledge and experience
Essential
* Proven post-graduate experience
* Wheelchair Accreditation
* Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment
* Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and social care
* Understanding of National Service Frameworks for Older People, specifically aspects referring to Stroke, Falls, and Intermediate Care.
* Student Placement Educators Course
* Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations
* Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Proven ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision and make autonomous decisions
* Evidence of ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
* Knowledge of specialised disability equipment
* Therapeutic and manual handling skills
* Detailed understanding of roles of multidisciplinary team members/health and social care agencies
* Understanding of clinical governance issues
* IT skills
Desirable
* Clinical leadership skills
* Recruitment and selection training
* Appraisals and supervision training
* Experience of clinical audit.
Specific Skills
Essential
* Knowledge of vulnerable adults protocols and procedures
* Elderly care/rehabilitation to include multi-pathology and dementia
* Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
* Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
* Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/taking baseline observations.
* Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and proven ability to carry out fast track assessments
* Stroke rehabilitation
* Mental Health conditions
* Community rehabilitation
* Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working.
* Experience of initiating change in the workplace
* Experience of seating and postural management
Requirements due to work environment and/or conditions
Essential
* Highly developed communication skills to include negotiation and experience of communicating sensitive information e.g. unfavourable assessment outcomes
* Ability to make decisions under pressure
* Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality.
Desirable
* Experience of handling complaints
Employer details
Employer name
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Union House
3rd Floor, 89 Union Street
Torquay
TQ1 3YA
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