Senior Occupational Therapist

1. To assess clients referred to the service.

2. To utilise specialist assessments when presented with complex cases.

3. To make decisions on the level of treatment intervention required.

4. To undertake treatment planning, communicating and negotiating treatment plans and clinical reasoning for intervention with clients and their carers.

5. To liaise closely with community Occupational Therapy Department as required.

6. To communicate agreed treatment/care plans to multi-disciplinary team colleagues and partnership agencies and liaise with them at formal and informal meetings.

7. To work in collaboration with others to modify aspects of the environment in order to empower clients and facilitate optimal functional performance.

8. To liaise with Social Services and Housing Organisations concerning provision of equipment and home adaptations.

9. To manage a complex caseload.

10. To apply a variety of treatment modalities to meet the needs of clients in individual or group format, utilising clinical reasoning processes to determine the most appropriate setting for intervention.

11. To make clinically informed decisions in order to delegate aspects of client care to assistants, junior staff, students, carers and statutory or non-statutory bodies.

12. To regularly review clients' progress in order to evaluate and interpret effectiveness of treatment plans, and amend treatment or discharge clients accordingly.

Maintain and develop professional expertise in a wide range of clinicalareas and conditions.

To deputise for the Clinical Lead in their absence.

Be aware of the additional responsibility of loneworking.

Raise the profile of Occupational Therapy within the multi-disciplinary team and the widercommunity.

Be autonomously responsible for complexcaseloads.

Provide clinical expertise to other members of the multi professionalteam.

Supervise junior staff at alllevels.

Plan and prioritise departmentalworkload.

Develop and implement training forassistants.

Represent Occupational Therapy at seniorlevel.

Assist in the recruitment, selection and orientation of new staffmembers.

Participate in the staff appraisal scheme as appraiser and appraisee. To be responsible for implementing and achieving development needs for self and junior staff identified from the performance review and developmentplans.

Undertake the role of Clinical Educator for Occupational Therapy students, working with colleagues to ensure the standard of clinical placements and teaching meets qualificationrequirements

In addition to the above duties you will also be expected to perform the below key activities in line with your job role;

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