Specialist Occupational Therapist (Meadowview)
We are looking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist to our dynamic, integrated multi-disciplinary Meadowview team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join and develop our integrated collaborative working within our team and the directorate. Meadowview is a multi-professional 36 bedded unit consisting of Nurses, PT's, OT's, care coordinators, admins, and rehab assistants. The team aims to provide rehabilitation, holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age of 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley or Greenwich GP.
Main duties of the job
You will work with specific OT caseloads following the care pathway providing a high standard of service user focused interventions around occupational roles. This role also provides an opportunity to carry out generic and care co-ordination roles as an agreed percentage of your casework.
In applying occupational therapy models, you will work from an evidence base and draw upon current developments in Recovery and Social Inclusion. You will need to be committed to a service user focus and be creative in finding ways to help people develop and achieve personal goals. You will also contribute to a forward-thinking group programme and lead on implementing particular groups.
You will work alongside OT and multi-disciplinary colleagues, as well as working with a range of other agencies. The Oxleas Occupational Therapy Service is committed to the continuing professional development (CPD) of its staff. A well-developed supervision structure, CPD activities, and a variety of training opportunities underpin this.
Job responsibilities
1. Demonstrate specialist theoretical knowledge of complex acute and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of clients.
2. Work closely with other health professionals and social services and provide specialist Occupational Therapy advice in meeting the needs of the clients.
3. Conduct a thorough holistic specialist Occupational Therapy assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures.
4. Recommend appropriate interventions to promote functional independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.
5. Complete individual plans of care for clients who require input from integrated community services bed-based or home-based rehabilitation input.
6. Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that clients' needs are met.
7. Provide specialist Occupational Therapy advice and support to clients, carers, and relatives based on clinical evidence and reasoning.
8. Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation, education and demonstration of equipment.
9. Participate in and lead MDT meetings and complex family conferences.
10. Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients.
11. Identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner.
12. Seek guidance from more experienced colleagues when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognised Occupational Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
* Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registration
* Registered Member of British Association of Occupational Therapists
Experience
* Evidence of post registration experience as a band 5 sufficient to meet B6 requirements
* Evidence of working as an OT in a specialist team
* Evidence of recent CPD and course attendance with rehabilitation or equivalent
* Evidence of working in an MDT setting
* Experience of using standardised assessments
Knowledge / Skill / abilities
* Evidence of excellent professional and clinical knowledge and skills as an OT
* Basic computer skills and good patient record management
* Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner as well as in an MDT
* Access to car to use for work
* Evidence of using outcome measures
Personal / Other
* Evidence of self-reflection and self-appraisal
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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