· To perform advanced Occupational Therapy assessments of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to develop and deliver individualised treatment programmes.
To evaluate patient progress, reflect, analyse and reassess intervention and alter treatment programmes, as appropriate. Clearly communicating any changes in care plan or treatment approach to other team members to ensure consistency of approach and enhance recovery.
· To maintain up to date and timely clinical records in accordance with service and professional standards and to access and update patient information as required.
· To hold clinical responsibility for a designated caseload, seeing patients in the most appropriate community setting.
· To provide leadership and training for junior members of staff and support workers within the team and to supervise occupational therapy students on placement.
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake relevant competency training, specific to the service area and appropriate to the role banding. This may involve medicines administration and basic wound care.
Main duties of the job
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, alongside physiotherapists, nurses, support workers, associate practitioners and consultants.
You will be responsible for the assessment of patients allocated to you, and for the provision of their treatment plan and subsequent interventions. You will be required to complete joint visits with other members of the team and provide feedback to the coordinators in the service with a clear plan for each patient.
You will need to complete on ward referrals to other services, and ensure and make recommendations for the provision of equipment and/or adaptations if deemed appropriate.
You will also be involved in the assessment of patients with cognitive impairment and dementia and will be expected, following appropriate training, to take patients' observations and complete clear, concise, and appropriate records.
Joining our service, you will also get the opportunity to deliver rehabilitation to patients who are referred into our intensive rehabilitation service. You will be involved in setting personalised goals that you can work on with the patient whilst on this pathway.
Your assessments will take place in a number of different settings but predominantly in the patients' own homes.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award-winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee-owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person Specification for further details regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
* Degree/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Health and Care Professions Registered
* Portfolio evidence of post-graduate training across a range of specialised clinical areas.
* Royal College of Occupational Therapy Registration
Work Related Knowledge and Experience
* Broad range of clinical experience in a variety of settings including Community, Inpatient, Neurology, Orthopaedics and Care of the Elderly, of which some should have been within the NHS setting
* Experience of managing own caseload including prioritising and delegating work in response to changing demands.
* Demonstrates sound clinical reasoning skills.
* Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working
* Supervision of junior staff, support workers and students.
* Experience of prescribing a range of specialist Occupational Therapy equipment to meet patient needs.
* An understanding of national health care policy/national guidance relevant to this field.
* Sound understanding of clinical governance/audit
* Previous experience of working in a Virtual Ward.
* Experience of working in an Admission Avoidance setting.
Skills and Aptitudes
* High level of problem-solving skills and clinical reasoning, informed by accurate and advanced assessment skills
* Ability to undertake the assessment of capacity, gaining valid informed consent and able to work within a legal frame with those who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
* Competent moving and handling skills to enable accurate assessment of ability, to enable effective treatment and to optimise treatment outcomes.
* Ability to work autonomously with support of formal and informal supervision.
* Ability to work effectively under pressure
* Ability to empower and motivate others, including patients and team members.
* Demonstrate empathy with patients, carers and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities
* Able to communicate complex condition-related information to patients, carers, families and multidisciplinary team members/other professionals, in written and verbal form
* Negotiate with carers/patients/others around individual case management
* Effective 1:1 and group teaching skills.
* Able to delegate effectively and coordinate support workers’ workload.
* High standard of written English and verbal communication skills.
* Competent I.T. skills with Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook Packages
* Teaching and presentation skills to wider audiences.
* Knowledge of Systm One.
Circumstances
* Full valid driving licence Access to own transport
* Ability to work a flexible rota including 7-day working as the service requires.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
* As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
* If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID-19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attend an interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Heather Duffy Job title: Team Lead for Therapy Email address: Heatherduffy@nhs.net Telephone number: 07580 912698 Additional information: You can also contact 01245 397700 or email Provide.midessexfrailtyvirtualward@nhs.net if you have any queries.
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