Rotational B5 Community Occupational Therapist
Band 5
Job overview
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 reflective 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 is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To provide assessment and treatment packages of high-quality healthcare for patients’ rehabilitation needs in a variety of settings, including 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 co-ordinated multidisciplinary service and integrate occupational therapy intervention into a patient’s 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 wheelchair and commodes in and out of stores/car and patients' homes.
General
* Hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (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.
We will communicate any interview arrangements with applicants via e-mail so it is advisable that you check the email address you give on your application on a regular basis.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. All new appointments (excluding Medical & Dental roles) are subject to a 26-week probation period.
Applications from qualified job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications, subject to you meeting minimum criteria of the role and salary threshold.
If applicable to the role, staff are required to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use with business insurance (unless the member of staff has a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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