Bank B6 Occupational Therapist - Herts (Band 6) - Occupational Therapy - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust – Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Responsibilities:
1. Provide urgent high-quality, short-term programs of care for vulnerable adults in their own home with acute health needs, and facilitate timely discharge from urgent and acute care settings.
2. Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice, and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
3. Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate timely assessment and coordinated discharge planning, liaising with appropriate team members when patients are acutely unwell.
4. Hold responsibility for own caseload, working with and without direct supervision.
5. Provide support, teaching, and clinical supervision for other team members and student Occupational Therapists.
6. Work flexibly, being willing to work on other Unplanned Care pathways when required.
7. Prescribe appropriate equipment to clients to maximize their independence and safety.
8. Travel to clients' homes, taking necessary assessment and treatment equipment as required.
9. Work as a lone practitioner, within the guidelines of the Lone Working Policy, when performing home visits.
10. Identify clients who need support from outside agencies, using clinical reasoning and analysis skills, and liaise with and refer clients to these services, which include other Healthcare Services, Social Services, and Voluntary agencies as appropriate.
11. Participate in 7-day working.
12. Undertake specialised multi-professional assessments, develop and implement treatment plans for clients referred to the Unplanned Care services, presenting with a variety of complex multi-pathologies within specialist areas, including neurological conditions.
13. Participate in triaging referrals and allocation of visits appropriately.
14. Communicate relevant medical information, assessment details, advice, and recommendations across agencies and with clients in compliance with trust guidelines for sharing of information and informed consent.
15. Following specialist assessment, use advanced clinical reasoning, analysis, assessment, and re-assessment skills, and using a client-centered goal-setting approach, to develop and provide individual occupational therapy treatments and programmes for clients, including functional activities, manual occupational therapy treatment techniques, or patient and caregiver education.
16. Demonstrate compassion, empathy, and sensitivity towards clients who may have complex emotional and physical conditions.
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
* stay well
* manage their own health with the right support
* avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence.
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