Job Title: Band 6 Occupational Therapist
Trust: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location: John Radcliffe Hospital
Ward: Occupational Therapy - in patients
Shift Patterns: Monday - Friday 8-4pm flexible
Why might this job interest you?
You will work with people with physical, mental health, or social disabilities to help them do everyday activities. You will spend time with individuals to find out what they do in their day-to-day life and help them find ways to overcome challenges.
What you can add:
* Provide specialised Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment to patients with highly complex neurological conditions.
* Supervision to junior Occupational Therapy staff, assistants, and students.
* Assist the Lead Occupational Therapist and Highly Specialist OTs in the provision, monitoring, and ongoing development of the service to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the service users and responds to government and trust initiatives.
What you'll need:
* Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy.
* HCPC Registration.
* UK NHS Experience.
* Previous range of experience including core areas, such as respiratory, orthopaedics, neurology, older adults.
* Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
* Ability to work within a team and have a good understanding of the Occupational Therapy processes involved in rehabilitation.
Main duties of the job
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB: To provide specialised Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment to patients with highly complex neurological conditions as an autonomous practitioner. Staff are supported and guided by Highly Specialist Occupational Therapists and a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist.
To clinically supervise junior Occupational Therapy staff, assistants, technical instructors, and students.
To assist the Lead OT and Highly Specialist OTs in the provision, monitoring, and ongoing development of the service to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the service users and responds to government and trust initiatives.
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Job responsibilities
PRINCIPAL DUTIES:
1. To undertake specialist assessment and treatment of adults with a variety of complex and diverse neurological conditions as inpatients, outpatients/day hospital setting, and in specialist clinics.
2. To carry out complex standardised and non-standardised assessments of functional ability, cognition, home situation, and psychological issues liaising with senior staff as required for highly complex patients.
3. To respect clients' dignity, privacy, culture, and wishes during treatment with a commitment to equal access to Occupational Therapy.
4. To use specialist clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to analyse and interpret clinical information to formulate occupational therapy treatment and appropriate outcome measures and to form an accurate diagnosis of patients' conditions with guidance from Highly Specialist OTs as required.
5. To provide specialist evidence-based OT treatment using a wide range of treatment skills and options relevant to neurological rehabilitation.
6. To provide advanced recommendations/advice/instruction/teaching regarding OT management of each patient, according to the individual needs of each patient, to the IDT team, other relevant health and social care professionals, carers/relatives, and other relevant non-healthcare professionals.
7. To monitor, review, and modify treatment plans/goals to measure progress and to ensure effective outcomes.
8. Prioritise and organise own patient caseload and develop individualised treatment interventions under the supervision of the Highly Specialist OTs.
9. To work as part of the interdisciplinary team providing specialist neurological rehabilitation individually and in groups.
10. To agree and set IDT rehabilitation goals, with the treating team within goal planning meetings.
11. To manage a complex caseload as an autonomous practitioner evidencing clinical reasoning skills, problem-solving, and independence of judgement.
12. To be able to identify own professional limitations and seek senior advice when appropriate.
13. To carry out discharge home visits in liaison with health and social care agencies to identify equipment and care needs for discharge and identify and refer to appropriate onward services.
14. To risk assess and undertake complex manual handling techniques involving patients and/or equipment following appropriate training in line with organisational manual handling policies.
15. To demonstrate physical ability to carry out assessment and interventions including manual handling and therapeutic techniques.
16. To act as keyworker for designated patients and chair goal planning/discharge meetings as required.
17. Plan and allocate work to assistant and technical staff.
18. To continuously evaluate Occupational Therapy intervention and to maintain and develop a high standard of clinical and professional practice at all times.
Communication:
1. To liaise with all members of the inter-disciplinary team, patients, carers, Health and Community Services, relevant external agencies, OCE, and OUH staff to ensure a coordinated, consistent approach to service delivery.
2. To communicate and negotiate with individual patients and those involved in the patients' care to gain consent and understanding of treatment programmes to ensure OT intervention is effective. This will frequently be with patients who have complex emotional, physical, and psychological conditions e.g. aphasia and cognitive problems and will need expert use of verbal and non-verbal communication tools, or with patients from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds where English is not their primary language.
3. To be able to provide and receive complex sensitive and contentious information such as discussing limitations associated with diagnosis/procedures/prognosis, managing complex discharges, and providing appropriate emotional support where persuasion, motivation, and reassurance skills are required.
4. To be able to assess a patient's understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
5. To keep accurate written records of assessment and treatment in accordance with the trust, NHS, and professional OT standards including comprehensive discharge/home and progress reports to medical and therapy referrers.
6. To attend and contribute to relevant service-related meetings.
7. To promote understanding of the aims of Occupational Therapy intervention within the IDT team and with external agencies involved in the patients' care.
8. To assist the Lead Occupational Therapist in communicating relevant information efficiently and effectively to occupational therapy staff within the Oxford Centre for Enablement.
Management:
1. To assist the Lead Occupational Therapist in the coordination and management of the neurological occupational therapy service provided to the Enablement Directorate.
2. To be actively involved in the development of new models of service delivery and care within the Enablement Directorate under the direction and supervision of the Head Occupational Therapist, Highly Specialist and Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapists.
3. To achieve and maintain a level of skill in information technology relevant to the post.
4. To be responsible for ensuring that all equipment in the occupational therapy department is stored safely and maintained in safe working order.
5. To assist the Lead Occupational Therapist in the management of change and to ensure cost-effective use of available resources.
6. To be responsible for the recording and collation of departmental statistics and other information as required by the Head of Therapy Services both written and on the IT system.
7. To be aware of and assist the occupational therapy team to adhere to all OUH and NHS health and safety and personnel policies and procedures, including carrying out risk assessments.
8. To be actively involved in the development of clinical audit and quality assurance strategies to ensure that a clinically effective occupational therapy service is delivered.
9. To be involved in the supervision and appraisal of junior occupational therapy staff and/or assistant/technical instructor staff.
10. To assist the Lead OT and Highly Specialist OTs in the recruitment and retention process.
Education, Training and Research:
1. To have an awareness of current trends in treatment techniques and professional issues and to participate in active learning, including participating in research or study in relevant areas.
2. To be responsible for acquiring the clinical and professional skills, with the support of the highly specialist OTs, required for the clinical area e.g. fabrication of specialised hand splints, administering standardised cognitive assessments, implementation of specialised postural management strategies.
3. To be involved in the orientation and induction programmes of new Occupational Therapy staff and students.
4. To participate in regular supervision, the staff review process, in-service/IDT training, action learning, and maintain a professional portfolio to ensure professional registration is maintained.
5. To assist in providing fieldwork placements for undergraduate Occupational Therapy students, including the maintenance of standards expected of an accredited fieldwork placement.
6. To contribute and participate in educational programmes and courses organised within the occupational therapy service.
7. To keep up to date with relevant research and issues relevant to the clinical area to provide evidence-based care.
The responsibilities below are applicable to all staff within the Trust:
Health and Safety:
Staff must be aware of individuals' responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify, and report as necessary, any untoward incident or accident or potentially hazardous environment.
Infection Control:
Staff must wash their hands, or use alcohol gel, on entry and exit from all clinical areas and/or between each patient contact. Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust. Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy.
* HCPC Registration.
Experience
* UK NHS Experience.
* Previous range of experience including core areas, such as respiratory, orthopaedics, neurology, older adults.
* Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
* Ability to work within a team and have a good understanding of the Occupational Therapy processes involved in rehabilitation.
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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