To take responsibility for all aspects of service delivery, including providing leadership to junior colleagues, providing cover for staff who are absent and deputising in the team leads absence. Deputising in the absence of the Registered manager/Team Lead can include operational/leadership duties such as supporting triage, waiting list management, attending meetings and delegation of work to junior staff. To take a flexible approach to supporting colleagues in times of caseload pressure, including working with colleagues to maintain clinical cover across the team within the resources available. To take responsibility and assist the team lead with the recruitment process of junior staff e.g. taking part in interview panels, induction process and engaging with preceptorship programmes. To regularly provide learning opportunities to junior staff and colleagues. This includes facilitating and providing instruction, training to supporting their development, attainment of skills, and ability to reflect on professional and ethical issues. To participate in providing instruction, learning opportunities, experience and training to health and social care staff and students, including those from other Livewell services, professional disciplines and colleges as agreed with Team Lead. To educate service users and both formal/informal carers regarding the impact of cognitive, perceptual, and physical deficits that affect service user safety and independence in the hospital and home, leisure, and workplace. Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources. To assess, prescribe and authorise both general and specialist aids and adaptive equipment in line with the organisations and the Community Equipment Services policy and procedures. To make recommendations for minor adaptations to increase / enable or compensate for independent function, teaching compensatory techniques as required. To ensure all equipment and relevant clinical stock is accounted for, maintained, used effectively and efficiently with risk assessments and appropriate training completed. To utilise Livewell SW resources responsibly, following policy and guidance around the security, useability, decontamination, and maintenance of assessment equipment utilised in the clinical setting. To assess the need for short/long term care placements or care packages for service users where required; factoring in the use of equipment, techniques or compensatory methods that safely meet the service users care needs whilst aiming to preserve health and social care budgets wherever possible. To maintain high professional standards and conduct at all times, complying with the standards of practice stipulated in the Royal College of Occupational Therapys Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics and all of HCPC standards and regulations. To work as an autonomous practitioner, independently organising, planning, and diarising a designated caseload to meet service priorities, readjusting plans as situations change and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, applying logical professional rationale that is based upon evidence based / person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. To maintain up to date, accurate and complete records of all activity and clinical input (all formats of service user contacts, MDT care plans, assessments, reports), ensuring confidentiality at all times, complying with Livewell SW Health & Corporate Records policy and HCPC requirements for thorough and sufficient records. To be responsible for the timely discharge of people from your caseload. To utilise and complete applicable outcome measures in your service and offer service user feedback mechanisms when facilitating the discharge of service users from Livewell SW services. To report accidents, incidents, complaints, or faulty equipment in line with Livewell SW policy and procedures. To keep up to date with mental capacity legislation, assessing mental capacity and imparting sufficient information to the service user in order to gain valid informed consent, which must be documented and gained at every intervention. For consent to be valid, HCPC stipulate it must be voluntary and informed, and the person giving consent must have the capacity to make the decision. To act in a service users best interest at all times, factoring in their known views, beliefs, values, and instructions expressed, when undertaking care or an intervention where the service user lacks capacity to give expressed consent. To actively participate in the complex MDT functions and the support individuals with decision making around the application of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and adhering to the principles of Best Interest legislation. To be responsible for the comprehensive holistic assessment, treatment and evaluation of service users including those with complex presentation using treatment techniques to promote normal movement, motor relearning, cognitive therapy, compensatory techniques, and daily living skills. Interventions may consider wider areas such as return to employment, education, driving, vocational rehabilitation etc. To carry out environmental home assessments, pre discharge home assessments, discharge home visits and follow up as required. The assessment involves reviewing ergonomic layout of the property to maximise the service users functional ability within the home, assessment of disabled access, equipment needs, recommendation for minor and major house adaptations, risk and safety review and referring to other agencies as necessary. To be competent to identify the need for an enabling package of support and set goals to promote independence. To provide education and advice to service users, carers and/or family members regarding the impact of cognitive, perceptual, and physical deficits on service user safety and independence in the home, leisure, and workplace. This can include imparting sensitive information and advice to service users and carers which could have life changing consequences. To provide advice, signposting, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, service users, carers, relatives, or other non-professional contacts. To facilitate the return of people currently in an inpatient setting/residential or nursing care placement who wish to return home. To refer to and liaise with follow up services to ensure continuity of care, and that treatment programmes are in place to progress functional independence based on identified needs at the end of episode of care. 5.5Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments To actively contribute to service development and/or service changes, including taking part in the evaluation of OT services in your designated area and participating in the planning, development of services, including holding responsibility for defined projects. To take an active role in evidence-based audit, research, protocols, and interdisciplinary development within the service. To demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management, working in partnership with operational and strategic leadership, contributing to Livewell SW clinical governance arrangements and quality agenda. To be an active member of in-service training programmes, including attending or organising courses, delivering presentations and training/tutorial sessions to develop own and others skill, knowledge, and expertise, utilising reflective practice to support professional development. To use outcome measures specific to the work area, to evidence the benefits of Occupational Therapy interventions, collecting and reporting statistical data in line with Livewell SW policies and procedures. To jointly manage referrals/admissions/waiting lists to ensure appropriate screening and prioritisation are utilised in accordance with service eligibility criteria and standards. To assist team managers to review incidents and support the implementation of actions and learning for and with the team, this could include supporting investigations of serious incidents and/or HR issues. To participate in duty rotas and where appropriate, support the team lead with rostering. To participate in Triage/MDT discussions and/or coordination of new referrals/transfer of service users to Livewell SW services. To assist the team lead to respond to complaints and feedback where appropriate. To apply professional, local, and national guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care provision To ensure that mandatory training, essential skills for your area of clinical practice is kept up to date through attendance of training. You may be required to undertake 7 days working, including bank holidays. This is subject to the terms and conditions set out in your contract of employment. For Full details of the job description please see the attached document entitle job description.