Job purpose
To provide specialist and dynamic neurological assessment, intervention, support, and advice to individuals who have a complex neurological diagnosis. Provide clinical leadership to other professionally registered staff and support workers. Support the supervision and professional progress of staff and students within the ICNSS, and the wider community and specialist teams.
Base
North, West or South Wiltshire Locality
This post is responsible for
1. To provide a specialist Neurological Occupational Therapy service for neurological patients.
2. To work within a multi-professional team.
3. Assess, interpret, plan and implement treatment and care to patients in a community/out-patient setting.
4. Work towards integrated seamless provision of care for the patient, working with primary, secondary, community and tertiary services.
5. To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring full participation in decision making.
6. To provide neurological advice and support for all colleagues involved with care of patient.
Patient Care
1. Ensure own clinical credibility through professional accountability and maintaining clinical skills.
2. To deliver clinical care for patients with complex neurological needs by providing specialist assessments and treatment and formulating clear treatment pathways to assist community workers.
3. Accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care plans, ensuring that care needs and wishes of the individual are carefully and accurately documented in the clinical records.
4. To participate in MDT meetings, clinics and case reviews to assist in the implementation of multi-disciplinary, client centred goal planning.
5. To obtain consent for any treatment undertaken.
6. Ensure effective communication of complex, sensitive patient information between hospital and community professionals, including overcoming communication difficulties (e.g., hearing/language).
7. To be responsible when appropriate for the assessment of equipment and ensure the safe use of the equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice.
8. To promote, lead and ensure implementation of new practices/developments in neurology and within the Community Neurological Service.
9. To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence: re-establishing previous routines and roles with the family and wider community.
10. To have sound knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.
Responsibilities for People or Training
1. Provide clinical supervision and leadership to ensure high clinical standards and to facilitate the development of individual team members.
2. To promote best practice, monitor and support junior staff and students practice.
3. Provide clinical/fieldwork education placement for pre-registration students of own profession and to support that provision for other disciplines.
4. Develop and maintain skills required for patients within a community setting in line with appraisal setting and KSF.
5. To participate in in-service training to the Community Neurological Service and provide training sessions to colleagues in the Community Teams.
Other Factors
There is the expectation that the role will require moderate physical effort for short periods, for example, to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids. The role will require driving and travel for clinical visits and training. Regular VDU usage is expected.
Our values
Our values are our moral compass and core to our DNA. They underpin the way we deliver our services and treat those who use our services. To many organisations, values are just words which don’t translate into reality of the day to day, but our values flow through everything that we do, they define who we are, what we stand for and set the expectations of our colleagues, communities, customers and partners. We have three values which help us stand out from the crowd: we care, we think, and we do.
Confidentiality and Information Security
As our employee you will be required to uphold the confidentiality of all records held by the company, whether patients/service records or corporate information. This duty lasts indefinitely and will continue after you leave the company’s employment. All information which identifies living individuals in whatever form is covered by the 2018 Data Protection Act and should be managed in accordance with this legislation.
Information governance responsibilities
You are responsible for the following key aspects of Information Governance:
1. Completion of annual information governance training.
2. Reading applicable policies and procedures.
3. Understanding key responsibilities outlined in the Information Governance acceptable usage policies and procedures.
4. Ensuring the security and confidentiality of all records and personal information assets.
5. Maintaining timely and accurate record keeping in accordance with professional guidelines.
6. Reporting information governance incidents and near misses to the appropriate person.
Governance
Clinical governance is a framework through which organisations delivering health and care services are accountable to continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care. Employees must be aware that clinical governance places a duty on all staff to ensure that the level of care services they deliver to patients is safe and high quality, and that they follow/comply with our policies and procedures.
Registered Health Professional
All staff who are a member of a professional body must comply with standards of professional practice/conduct.
Risk Management/Health & Safety
The post holder has a responsibility to themselves and others in relation to managing risk and health and safety and will be required to work within the policies and procedures laid down by the company.
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Responsibility
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk of harm and expect all employees to share this commitment.
Medicines Management Responsibility
All staff must undertake all aspects of medicines management related activities in accordance with the company’s medicines policies.
Policies and Procedures
All colleagues must comply with the Company Policies and Procedures which can be found on the company intranet.
General
We are committed to serving our community. We aim to make our services exemplary in both clinical and operational aspects.
Equal Opportunities
It is the company’s intention to be an employer of choice and ensure that no job applicants or employees are unfairly disadvantaged on the grounds of gender, disability, race, ethnic origin, colour, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, trade union membership or any other factors that are not relevant to their capability or potential.
Flexibility Statement
This job description is not exhaustive and may change as the post develops or changes to align with service needs.
Personal Specification
Essential
1. BSc/BSc (Hons) and or equivalent qualification in Occupational Therapy.
2. Registered with HPC.
3. Post registration qualification in relevant area of clinical practice.
4. Delivering patient focused care.
5. Experience of working with adults with neurological problems as a qualified therapist (minimum 1 year).
6. Case management.
7. Excellent inter-professional communication.
8. Teaching (both professionals, students and patient/carers).
9. Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care and its organisation.
10. Demonstrate professional development and experience.
11. Multi-disciplinary working across a range of agencies/professional groups.
12. Providing evidence-based practice through clinical audit.
13. Assessment and care planning.
14. Working in partnership with other agencies.
15. Evidence of on-going personal development.
16. Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups.
17. Experience of gathering and interpreting information to shape service development.
18. Typing/data inputting skills.
19. Physical skills to manually handle patients and appropriate lifting aids.
20. Current driving license and use of car during working hours.
Desirable
1. Management, organizational and administrative skills.
2. Evidence of community experience as a qualified therapist.
3. Setting and monitoring standards of care.
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