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Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Section 2 - Knowledge and Skills:
Communications
* Develop working relationships with the immediate team.
* Communicate with a wide range of people to ensure that treatment planning and intervention is holistic and cohesive.
* Use a variety of communication methods throughout the working day, e.g., email, written records, and telephone.
* Communicate difficult or sensitive information relating to patient care.
* Ensure that all locally produced information documents are in the corporate style and that all written information complies with Trust policy.
Responsibility for Patient Care
* Carrying out appropriate occupational therapy assessments, based on good practice.
* Developing treatment plans, tailored to the patient's needs and demonstrating sound clinical reasoning.
* Delivering therapeutic intervention based on the findings of your assessments.
* Promoting self-management to all patients.
* Supporting patients (and their carers if appropriate) by providing information which is well sourced and of good quality.
* Assist patients, carers, relatives during incidental contact.
Planning and Organising
* Organise and plan their own day-to-day workload, in order to meet the demands of the service and job role.
* Participate in the supervision of more junior/unqualified staff.
* Supervise occupational therapy students on clinical placement within the team.
Responsibilities for Physical and/or Financial Resources
The post holder will ensure safe and effective use of equipment, resources, and consumables at all times.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation
* Be aware of, comment on, and actively participate in changes on policy, procedure, or service development.
* Contribute to service development within the team.
* Embrace and support line management and the department, in making service improvements effective within the workplace.
* Contribute to interdisciplinary training.
* Attend training as identified in appraisal.
Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership
* Support new or less experienced work colleagues to adapt to the workplace.
Responsibilities for Teaching and Training
* Participate in training and development activities that are relevant to the job role.
* Deliver education and training to patients, their carers, and other appropriate agencies, in relation to the role of an occupational therapist, the patient's condition, healthy lifestyle choices, and self-management.
* Support learners of all disciplines and be a main educator for occupational therapy learners.
Responsibilities for Data and Information Resources
* Comply with the standards expected by the Organisation, in relation to the inputting of activity data.
Research, Development, and Audit
* Contribute to departmental, local, or National audits when required.
Section 3 - Effort and Environment:
Physical Skills and Effort
* Be required to carry out activities which involve manual handling and physical activity.
* Have access to reliable transport.
* Be required to switch attention between tasks throughout the day.
* Be required to use a computer for parts of every day.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* BSc/MSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
Knowledge
* Evidence of CPD.
Experience
* Previous experience on junior rotations.
* Desirable criteria: Knowledge of manual handling guidelines, previous experience of community working, previous experience of being part of an MDT.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to manage own caseload and prioritise work.
* Ability to communicate effectively with people who have barriers to understanding.
* Ability to communicate with patients, carers, and other professionals in health/social care and voluntary agencies.
* Ability to assess and plan treatment using a problem-solving approach.
Work Related Circumstances
* Registration with the HPC.
* Access to reliable transport that will allow transportation of heavy and/or bulky equipment.
New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years, and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute.
Alongside this, there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff, and support for flexible working.
At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.
The Trust is committed to making a difference to the environment. Our "Save Planet Tameside & Glossop" strategy means that we work towards protecting our natural environment and "green" workplace practices at all times.
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Applicant Requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application Numbers
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