Occupational Therapist - Baywide UCR and Intermediate Care

• Responsibility for managing an intensive actue caseload.
• Triage and prioritise work according to urgency and establishing presenting risks.
• Assessment and treatment of patients in a variety of community settings, which is mainly the patient's own home, but could incluse nursing homes and residential homes.
• Working with a patient centred approach, taking responsibility for planning , implementing and reviewing OT interventions for patients and making autonomous decisions/recommendations regarding packages of care, equipment provision and ongoing treatment to maintain patients at home, thereby preventing hospital admission. Interventions include manual handling assessment and equipment provision, simple and complex equipment and adaptation prescription.
• To 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.
• Supervisory responsibility for a Band 5 post , Assistant Practitioner or support worker as required.

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Childcare at our day nursery
• Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
• Staff Discounts
• Career development and training opportunities
• Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline

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
• Experience in the NHS working in a community setting

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.

Essential

• Knowledge of vulnerable adults protocols and procedures
• Elderly care / rehabilitation to include multi-pathology and dementia
• Experience 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

Essential

• Highly developed communication skills to include negotiation and experience of communicating sensitive information e.g. unfavourable assessment outcomes
• Ability to make decisions under pressure
• Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality.

Desirable

• Experience of handling complaints