Occupational Therapist

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

To be responsible for team related duties when requested by line manager or Team Manager.

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of work, including management of patients within your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical work for patients under Occupational Therapy management, and support more junior staff to do likewise.

To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with complex and/or chronic presentations using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and a wide range of treatment skills and options to devise specialist programmes of care.

To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this effectively with regard opt clinical priorities and use of time.

To demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice and make recommendations for change.

To be responsible for own continuing professional development- keeping abreast of new trends and developments, incorporating them into your work as necessary. Attend relevant conferences and internal/external training courses. Support more junior staff to do likewise.

To maintain a high level of Occupational Therapy standards and work to the Occupational Therapy Code of Professional Conduct.

To assist with development and participation in the teams audit projects, demonstrating use of evidence based projects and outcome measures, either individually or with senior therapists. To make recommendations for change.

To ensure the health and safety of staff and patients at all times in accordance with Health and safety legislation and Organisation Policies and Procedures. To adhere to all other Organisation Policies and Procedures.

To participate in identified data collection and statistics and to maintain clear, concise and timely records in line with service policy.

Dimensions

To work in a variety of community settings which may include the patients own home/Care/Nursing Home/clinic setting.

To provide clinical education, training, supervision and support to other staff and students within specialty area.

To be responsible for managing own specialist workload effectively within the clinical and professional policies of the Organisation.

Key Responsibilities

To work as part of a multi-professional , community neurology service providing support to adults with a range of neurological conditions.

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment programmes for adults with a diagnosis of a neurological condition in a community setting.

To provide planned, coordinated rehabilitation to patients and their carers as part of the multidisciplinary team providing a service for adults with neurological diagnosis.

To identify health and social care needs and coordinate the input of other professionals within the team and other statutory and voluntary services.

To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.

To educate, train and advise other health and social care workers, students and any other person involved in working with individual patients in the multi professional, and Occupational Therapy management of individuals needs , working in a variety of settings.

Organise own time including making appointments.

Person Specification

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Evidence of on-going CPD appropriate to this role.
• Evidence of achievement of appropriate competencies relevant to this role.
• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of complex conditions demonstrated by clinical reasoning.
• Evidence updated with professional practice and current best evidence and new research.
• Excellent communication skills demonstrating an ability to communicate to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to clinicians internally and external to the service.
• Basic IT skills.
• Ability to make sound clinical judgement.
• Ability to work as part of an integrated multi-professional team.
• Enthusiastic and motivated, Flexible, adaptable , innovative., self-reliant with a positive attitude.
• Good organisation skills and an ability to delegate and prioritise.
• Ability to relate well to all groups of people and to create and maintain effective working relationships.
• Team worker.
• Good written and verbal communication.
• Evidence of prioritisation skills, organisational skills, able to effectively support others , use initiative, proactive.
• Work under pressure.

Desirable

• Awareness of audit tools and research methodology.
• Knowledge of models of supervision.

Experience

Essential

• A level of post graduate experience demonstrating broad based experience which may include neurological rehabilitation, splinting and health care of older person that is pertinent to the area of work this post applied to including social care OT roles. Proven through attendance at courses and PRD.
• Experience of multi-agency working..
• Supervision of less experienced qualified staff and students/support workers.
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