Job purpose
To work as a specialist clinician to utilise, develop and enhance Occupational Therapy clinical and professional skills within the stroke service to deliver high standards of practice.
To apply the Occupational Therapy process within a multi-disciplinary format providing specialist assessment and treatment in the stroke pathway.
To take a lead in developing the stroke service, promoting high quality clinical practice and ensuring professional standards are maintained in the workplace.
To deliver specialist Occupational Therapy interventions within the ward environment, requiring flexibility/adaptability in recognising the complexities of the patients to maximise their abilities and opportunities for rehabilitation.
Base
Community Hospital
This post is responsible for
Key responsibilities
1. To provide a specialist Occupational Therapy service for inpatients.
2. To work within a multi-professional team.
3. Assess, interpret, plan and implement treatment and care to patients on the stroke pathway.
4. Wherever possible, to reduce in-patient length of stay by promoting and supporting early discharge.
5. Apply a patient centred approach.
6. To provide advice and support to Teams.
Patient Care
1. Ensure own clinical credibility through professional accountability and maintaining clinical skills.
2. To deliver clinical care for patients by providing specialist assessments and treatment and formulating clear treatment pathways to assist community workers.
3. Accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing, and evaluating clinical care plans, ensuring that care needs and wishes of the individual are accurately documented in clinical records.
4. To participate in MDT meetings, clinics, and case reviews to assist in the implementation of multi-disciplinary, client centred goal planning.
5. To obtain consent for any treatment undertaken.
6. Ensure effective communication of complex, sensitive patient information, between hospital and community professionals, overcoming communication difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
7. To assess equipment and ensure the safe use of the equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice.
8. To promote, lead and ensure implementation of new practices/developments within the ward OT team.
9. To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence: re-establishing previous routines and roles with the family and wider community.
10. To have sound knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.
Budget Responsibilities
Not applicable – this is not a budget-holder post.
Responsibilities for People or Training
1. To act as a mentor, preceptor and supervisor of work experience students, Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy students, NVQ candidates and non-registered members of staff.
2. To promote best practice, monitor and support junior staff and students’ practice.
3. Provide clinical/fieldwork education placement for pre-registration students of own profession and to support that provision for other disciplines.
4. Develop and maintain skills required for patients within a community setting in line with appraisal.
5. To participate in in-service training and provide training sessions to colleagues in other teams.
Our values
Our values are our moral compass and core to our DNA. They underpin the way we deliver our services and treat those who use our services. We have three values which help us stand out from the crowd: we care, we think, and we do.
Confidentiality and Information Security
As our employee, you will be required to uphold the confidentiality of all records held by the company, whether patients/service records or corporate information. This duty lasts indefinitely and will continue after you leave the company’s employment.
Information governance responsibilities
You are responsible for the following key aspects of Information Governance:
1. Completion of annual information governance training.
2. Reading applicable policies and procedures.
3. Understanding key responsibilities outlined in the Information Governance acceptable usage policies and procedures.
4. Ensuring the security and confidentiality of all records and personal information assets.
5. Maintaining timely and accurate record keeping.
6. Only using email accounts authorised by us.
7. Reporting information governance incidents and near misses.
8. Adherence to the clear desk/screen policy.
9. Only using approved equipment for conducting business.
Governance
Clinical governance is a framework through which organisations delivering health and care services are accountable to continuously improving the quality of their services. Employees must ensure that the level of care services they deliver to patients is safe and high quality, and that they comply with our policies and procedures.
Registered Health Professional
All staff who are a member of a professional body must comply with standards of professional practice/conduct.
Risk Management/Health & Safety
The post holder has a responsibility to themselves and others in relation to managing risk, health and safety and will be required to work within the policies and procedures laid down by the company.
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Responsibility
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk of harm and expect all employees to share this commitment.
Medicines Management Responsibility
Nursing or registered healthcare professionals must undertake all aspects of medicines management related activities in accordance with the company’s medicines policies.
Policies and Procedures
All colleagues must comply with the Company Policies and Procedures which can be found on the company intranet.
General
We are committed to serving our community and aim to make our services exemplary in both clinical and operational aspects. We recruit competent staff that we support in maintaining and extending their skills in accordance with the needs of the people we serve.
Equal Opportunities
It is the company’s intention to be an employer of choice and ensure that no job applicants or employees are unfairly disadvantaged on the grounds of gender, disability, race, ethnic origin, colour, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, trade union membership or any other factors that are not relevant to their capability or potential.
Flexibility Statement
This job description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops or changes to align with service needs. Any such changes will be discussed directly between the post holder and their line manager.
Personal Specification
Essential:
1. BSc/BSc (Hons) and or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy.
2. Registered with HCPC.
3. Post registration qualification in relevant area of clinical practice.
4. Delivering patient focused care.
5. Case management.
6. Excellent inter-professional communication.
7. Teaching (both professionals, students and patient/carers) and holds recognised Teaching and Assessing in Clinical practice qualification.
8. Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care and its organisation.
9. Demonstrate professional development and experience.
10. Multi-disciplinary working across a range of agencies/professional groups.
11. Providing evidence-based practice through clinical audit.
12. Assessment and care planning with a particular focus on complex discharge planning.
13. Working in partnership with other agencies.
14. Evidence of on-going personal development.
15. Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups.
16. Experience of gathering and interpreting information to shape service development.
17. Undertake specific therapy skills.
18. Typing/data inputting skills – to use computerised system for accessing patient information.
19. Physical skills to manually handle patients and appropriate lifting aids.
20. Dealing with bad news – ability to sensitively inform service users on emotional issues.
21. Required to challenge and lead practice.
22. Ability to manually handle patients and equipment.
Leadership Desirable:
1. Evidence of inpatient experience as a qualified therapist.
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