Are you a new graduate OT looking for your first role or a Band 5 currently looking to develop your career with access to a range of clinical work areas and opportunities? Our well-established Band 5 scheme offers 6-month rotations across a number of acute and community settings in North Central London. Rotation opportunities include acute specialties such as cardiology, surgery, and care of older people, in-patient rehabilitation, community rehabilitation, urgent response, mental health, learning disability, social services, and pediatrics.
You will be well supported by senior staff to develop the knowledge and skills to equip you to assess and treat patients in the specialties mentioned above. Through preceptorship, supervision, and formal and informal training opportunities, we will work with you to support your career growth and enable you to become a confident and skilled clinician.
If you are compassionate and motivated with a willingness to provide excellent care to our local population across the lifespan, to help them live healthier and longer lives, then we would love you to apply for this role.
We currently have 1 permanent role and one 9-month fixed term role (maternity leave cover).
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce that is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
CLINICAL
* To assess and treat patients, addressing quality of life, physical, cognitive, affective, social, and environmental issues either on an individual or a group basis, utilizing a range of therapeutic skills in accordance with devised treatment plans, in both hospital and community settings.
* To prioritize factors involved in the client's presenting condition through clinical reasoning based on skills, knowledge, experience, and on current professional opinion, client progress, and other physical, social, emotional, and mental health issues.
* To use a client-centered approach and to set treatment goals that focus on the strengths and the needs of the patient/client.
* To ensure that the client and/or their carer have an understanding of treatment protocols and to ensure that there is informed consent to examination and treatment as required by the Trust or Social Services.
* In some service settings, to screen multidisciplinary referrals from a variety of sources where no other professionals are currently involved.
* To devise and manage a treatment plan individual to a client's presenting condition through the use of functional rehabilitation, adaptation, equipment provision, education, health promotion, and cognitive or psychological approaches.
* To contribute, as part of the multi-disciplinary team, to the discharge planning process, to enable clients to be discharged safely, with the relevant Occupational Therapy intervention completed in a timely manner.
* To attend and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and case conferences and any relevant meetings as required.
* To ensure client and service records are recorded and maintained, as per local Occupational Therapy, HCPC, BAOT, and Trust guidelines.
* To prescribe, delegate, and monitor the work of Rehabilitation Assistants/Therapy assistants and Technicians or Support Workers and countersign documentation if required.
* To advise, demonstrate to, and teach relevant clients, carers/health workers about ongoing rehabilitation and maintenance care programmes and use of equipment as appropriate.
* To manage clinical risk in own caseload and ensure that therapy/rehabilitation assistants and students comply, e.g., manual handling, risk assessment, and local policy regarding lone working.
COMMUNICATION
* To use well-developed verbal and non-verbal communication skills to ensure that the client and/or their carer understands the relevant advice, education, and recommendations given.
* To communicate sensitive information in an understandable form to patients and their carers and to enable patients to participate and cooperate in treatment.
* To produce written, electronic, and verbal reports for the MDT and other Health or Social care providers and be able to convey this to the patient in an accessible and meaningful manner using the correct terminology, often in the face of communication barriers.
* To comply with the Trust's policies on Confidentiality, Documentation, and record keeping.
* To give feedback in multi-disciplinary meetings, case conferences, case reviews, etc., in relation to own clinical findings in a consistent and professional manner.
EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL
* To utilize opportunities to develop skills and knowledge, apply critical appraisal, and keep up to date with current practice in the field.
* To support other Occupational Therapists in the education and training of other professionals and visitors to the department.
* To participate in education programmes for client/service groups.
* To support health promotion and health education initiatives within the locality and within the community directorate.
* To comply with all mandatory training, proactively attending updates at the time intervals stated.
* To maintain and update a Continuing Professional Development portfolio.
* To participate in the Preceptorship programme as required.
* To participate in the Appraisal/Individual performance review system.
MANAGEMENT
* To ensure that accurate and evaluative records of patient care are maintained in line with the service policy.
* To delegate appropriate work to staff in supporting roles and provide informal day-to-day support to Rehabilitation Assistants and students to enable them to carry or assist with a managed caseload.
* To be responsible for the safe use of all equipment.
* To ensure that all equipment defects, accidents, and complaints are reported to the Team Leader immediately.
* To comply with the Trust's/Social services policies and procedures, and the Health and Safety at Work Act.
* To participate in the collection of statistics and audit programmes as required by the Service.
* To participate in the induction/orientation of new staff members.
* To attend and participate in Occupational Therapy/Joint Therapy staff meetings and other relevant meetings as identified by the team lead.
* With supervision, use time management skills to manage and organise your workload on a daily basis.
* To maintain and develop specific departmental duties as designated by the Lead/Senior OT of the service.
* To participate in the development of services and initiatives in the Team, with the support and guidance from senior staff.
RESEARCH
* To participate in the evaluation of clinical practice.
* To keep up to date in the development of research and clinical practice in the field of rehabilitation, older people, and related areas.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
* Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
* IELTS Level 7.0 or above (overseas candidates only).
* Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
* Membership of BAOT.
* Graduate/Postgraduate training courses relevant to the post.
Experience
* Work or placement experience in the acute hospital setting or related work areas.
* Good understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
* Experience of working with patients as an OT or Student OT with complex medical and social presentations.
* Voluntary or independent work experience within other settings where skills learned would be transferable to Band 5 role.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of physical pathology related to rotational work areas i.e., acute medicine, care of older people, mental health, intermediate care.
* Understanding of the emotional and physical impact of illness/disability on an individual, their family, and carers.
* Awareness of and competence in undertaking core therapeutic assessments specific to Occupational Therapy.
* Practical experience of designing and implementing treatment programmes in line with best evidence/best practice.
* Knowledge and implementation of client-centered care principles within assessment and treatment plans.
* Knowledge of legislative frameworks/current legislation in relation to OT in health care and social care settings.
* Documented evidence of continuous professional development showing progression of learning and future learning objectives.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to communicate information clearly and professionally in a health care environment.
* Excellent clinical documentation skills.
* Professional liaison with colleagues in other sectors health, private, and voluntary.
* Prioritization and caseload management skills.
* Ability to work to agreed deadlines and timescales.
* Use of activity analysis to inform assessment and treatment planning.
* Developed clinical reasoning skills and clinical confidence.
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Computer competent/literate.
Other Qualities
* Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in work role and show skill transference when required to meet service needs.
* Be prepared to participate or have experience of participating in change which supports and develops the service.
* Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced work environment.
* Proactively participate in formal and informal training opportunities.
* Commitment to non-discriminatory practice.
* Personally organized and accepting of responsibility.
* Ability to work core hours over 7 days on a rota system.
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.
Manager-Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy
£35,964 to £43,780 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS.
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