About this role
Job summary
We are pleased to offer an opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist Reablement Service position within our new Community Reablement Project.
The Social Care team are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to join them in contributing to a caring and vibrant service working in the Baywide area.
The post holder will assist in supervising and co-ordination of the operational delivery of the Adult Social Care Reablement service Baywide.
The post holder will also triage and assess new referrals and identify new reablement goals for service users following referral to reablement service. This ensure that service users' referrals, assessments and discharges from the service are managed effectively.
This post is also a supportive role to staff with advice and training relevant to the role (including support staff and referrers).
The Baywide Social Care Team are a small supportive team who enjoy mentoring team members and students and are passionate about delivering quality care to patients. We are a motivated and caring team to both patients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a healthy work/home life balance.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder may have supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post or Assistant Practitioner as appropriate
The post-holder has responsibility for managing a community caseload
The post-holder will assess and treat patients in a variety of community settings, patient's own home, nursing homes, residential homes
About us
Why Work With Us
The adult social care occupational therapy are a supportive team who enjoy mentoring team members and students and are passionate about delivering quality care to people with both physical and/or mental health disabilities. We work in an integrated way with allied health care professionals within the locality, making a difference and helping people through their recovery and returning back to health and independence. We are a motivated and caring team to both our clients and colleagues. The team is flexible and promotes a health work/home life balance with opportunity to work autonomously.
Job description Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationships
Assess patients understanding of interventions, gain valid formal consent and jointly agree goals. To have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
Communication will include imparting sensitive and comprehensive information relating to diagnosis, prognosis, physical and functional recovery, and potential lifestyle adjustments, to patients and their relatives. This may involve informing patients that they may be unable to return home or return to their previous level of activity/work/leisure
To use, regularly and spontaneously, verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, prognosis, and support plans with patients and/or carers. This will include patients who may have difficulties with regard to complex emotional/ psychological/ physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who may be low in mood, hearing and/or visually impaired, and unable to accept their diagnosis, or have difficulty in understanding or communicating. Communication will involve the use of skills in motivating, negotiating, counselling, training, empathising and reassuring
Maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal, departmental and RCOT standards of practice, and to monitor that of less experienced staff
Effective communication with all members of multi-disciplinary team; Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social work staff, Nurses, Paramedic, GPs, and health and social care co-ordinators
To communicate with Clinical OT Lead regarding service development issues and staff related issues such as staff sickness and grievances
External communication may include discussion with employers and related agencies regarding return-to-work issues, and discussion regarding patient management with multidisciplinary/multiagency team members, including GPs, District Nurses, Residential home staff, Carer services, Council Services and Housing Associations
Analytical and judgement
Plan, implement and review OT interventions for individuals in the placement settings and patients own homes. To include the assessment, provision and fitting of adaptive equipment, assessment for minor and Major adaptations (Disabled Facilities Grants)
Carry out home assessment visits with patients from temporary places of safety, thereby contributing to the planning and facilitation of discharge to their own homes as appropriate
Identify appropriate agencies and services for onward referral of patients, and liaise with them regarding continuing patient care e.g. mental health services, local falls clinics, orthotics
Completion of falls assessments and pro-forma thereby contributing to the Falls Pathway
Undertake specialist seating and postural management assessments
Planning and organisation
Provide highly specialist advice to colleagues, other agencies on manual handling, risk assessment and the provision of hoisting equipment
Undertake specialist wheelchair assessments
Ensure all OT interventions are documented in an accurate and timely manner; prepare reports regarding more complex cases as indicated
Contribute where required to applications for continuing NHS care funding
Sensitive to pressures in the service and provide cover where appropriate
To contribute to the development and standard operating procedures for the reablement services.
Patient and client care
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team contributing to joint decisions regarding the management of patients, including between acute and community environments.
Be able to triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establishing presenting risks
Working with a patient centred approach, taking responsibility for assessment and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission.
To liaise closely with patients, carers and relatives regarding the development and implementation and outcome of individualised support plans
Assist and prepare service users and carers to participate in case conferences and reviews. Also, where necessary represent their views
Take an active part in adult protection duties
To take an active part in safeguarding adult duties.
Policy and service development
Deal with initial complaints from service users sensitively and appropriately; liaise with Lead and where complaints progress assists with their resolution in line with Trust policy
Have good working knowledge of, and ensure compliance with, National and Local guidelines, policies and procedures. To keep up to date with clinical developments using clinical databases and electronic technology
Practise in accordance with the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Occupational Therapists; work within Torbay & South Devon NHS Trust OT standards
Participate in clinical audit and research and service development within Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust OT service
Comply with Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and locality policies and protocols and contribute to the development of local policies and protocols specific to area of service
People management and training
An active member of the in-service training programme by attendance at, participation in and contribution to in-service training programmes, tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review
Take delegated responsibility for the teaching, supervision and co-ordination of junior staff, and students (to graduate level) and support workers daily
Responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change/arise.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training Essential
Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy Valid state registration with Health Professions Council CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post-graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice Experience within the NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions
Desirable
Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Knowledge and experience Essential
Proven post-graduate experience Wheelchair Accreditation Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation surrounding health and social care Understanding of National Service Frameworks for Older People, specifically aspects referring to Stroke, Falls and Intermediate Care Student Placement Educators Course Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure and in stressful situations Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills Proven ability to work on own initiative and without direct supervision and make autonomous decisions Evidence of ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team Knowledge of specialised disability equipment Therapeutic and manual handling skills Detailed understanding of roles of multidisciplinary team members/health and social care agencies Understanding of clinical governance issues IT skills
Desirable
Clinical leadership skills Recruitment and selection training Appraisals and supervision training Experience of clinical audit
Specific skills Essential
oProfessional / clinical experience oKnowledge of vulnerable adults' protocols and procedures oMoving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings oDisabled Facilities Grants oRisk assessment and management of falls oChronic disease conditions oOrthopaedics oNeurological conditions oElderly care / rehabilitation to include multi-pathology and dementia oExperience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations. Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and proven ability to carry out fast track assessments Stroke rehabilitation Mental Health conditions Community rehabilitation Experience of the promotion of inter-agency working. Experience of initiating change in the workplace Experience of seating and postural management
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Address Baywide
Kings Ash / Union House
Baywide
TQ1 3YA
Employer's website https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)