Occupational Therapist - Permanent
- NHS
- Full Time
- Southend-on-Sea
- 37938 - 43693 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Your New Organisation
Southend on Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the city vision and make lives better for the people of Southend.
Working for Southend on Sea City Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local government within a collaborative and innovate environment, with the benefit of flexible working practices to support a positive work life balance. As a Unitary Authority we are responsible for all local government functions ranging from social services, transport, public health and parks through to planning, trading standards, community safety and education, so we offer a wide range of career opportunities. The diversity of our economy and communities and investment in a number of exciting regeneration projects makes our Council a great place to work, learn and make a difference.
Main duties of the job
Your new role
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced permanent Occupational Therapist to join our dynamic, innovative, and inclusive Occupational Therapy Team at Southend City Council.
Southend OT team help children and adults with physical disabilities and long-term conditions. Our vision is for people to live well in the community, to maintain their independence and to prevent or reduce dependency on social care services.
This is a level 8 post with the expectation to work to support the OT team to deliver Occupational Therapy assessments and appropriate intervention in the right place at the right time.
OTs at level 8 undertake assessments for equipment and adaptations, enabling safe management of people in the community, and ensuring the person, their care agency and their informal carers have any equipment or adaptations needed to manage safely.
The team work using person focused, strengths based approach helping people identify what is meaningful to them and exploring ways to overcome the functional and environmental challenges to meet their goals.
About us
The Occupational Therapy service in Southend is a progressive place to work and we are always developing and improving our services in line with the needs of the community. We work with adults and children and their families to help them achieve positive outcomes through a strengths- based approach.
At Southend, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and knowledge. Find out more about the values we follow.Our Values and Behaviours Southend-on-Sea City Council jobs (job-essentials.com)
Our current teams are -
- OT Referral Hub
- Early response
- Reablement
- Able2
- Community Strengths
- Healthy at home
- Housing
- Children
Take the exciting step to apply for this role and you could be making an impact in one of these amazing teams. Each team offers very specific learning and development opportunities with enthusiastic and knowledgeable colleagues who can support you through induction and beyond. We can work with you to ensure you meet your professional development needs in line with the RCOT Career Development Framework.
Some examples of what training and support we offer are:
- Monthly formal supervision at a minimum
- Regular statutory training
- Clinical Effectiveness workshops
- Career development workshops
- Shadowing opportunities
- Networking opportunities with external providers
Job responsibilities
Occupational Therapist
Reports to Senior Occupational Therapy Practice Lead
Level 8
Main Purpose of the Job
To support citizens across Southend-on-Sea (including out-of-borough cases) with the aim to offer occupational therapy assessments in the right place at the right time.
To work across the localities of Southend-on-Sea in a range of community based settings including Community Hubs.
To undertake occupational therapy assessments for equipment, adaptions and manual handling.
To provide appropriate interventions and recommendations to promote independence.
To understand individuals strengths, assets and wishes to maximise their potential for independence, recognising the importance of assuming that the individual is best placed to know their own outcomes, goals and wellbeing.
To work with health and social care colleagues and other partners by engaging in innovative practice and a visionary approach to creating a better Southend.
To ensure the citizens of Southend are supported with the correct advice, information and relevant signposting and prompted to utilise the assets which already exist in their local community.
Innovation and creativity
Utilise your creativity and step up to offer your views and opinions
Act as a catalyst for change, ensuring that solutions and outcomes are based on recognised best practice and innovation.
Be part of a team that embraces the process of change, participating in effective team working.
Be an exemplar for high quality complex occupational therapy practice, leading through example in your communication style, knowledge, values and person-centred approach.
Promote critical reflection and participate in group work to ensure that the work environment is safe, responsive, flexible and emotionally capable.
Planning and Organisation:
Work closely with all partners across statutory partners (such as Police), Health and Social Care to ensure that there is effective coordination of interdependences including the resolution of risks and other issues that may arise.
Create space for innovative and courageous practice that seeks to develop the best quality outcomes for people in the borough
Collaboration and Co-production
Embrace a culture of active engagement and co-production across the team, community and system wide
Engage with people on all levels when considering how support is provided with an onus on co-production.
Participate in community engagement and cohesion to effectively reduce the number of people and families who are experience isolation, loneliness, marginalisation and disconnection.
Be willing to use critical thinking about how services are developed and maintained with our communities and stakeholders
Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders who are crucial to creating a better Southend, including General Practitioners (GPs), other primary care professionals, hospital staff and community leaders/groups relevant to the locality.
Strengths and Asset Based Engagement
Embrace the vision of an asset-based approach, health and social care integration and developing community resilience.
Adhere to the ethos and principles of the Care Act (2014) and other associated adult social care legislation as part of the Adult Social Care Transformation.
Apply a strengths/asset-based approach to practice, both in terms of individual assessments, care plans and reviews and the culture within the team.
Promote occupational therapy values, ethics and commit to ensuring that individuals are at the centre of practice
Resilience and Independence
Develop your strengths, abilities and aspirations to ensure you feel valued, inspired and able to take on the complexities of practice.
Promote a culture of enablement and independence within the team which reflects a practice approach in the community
Embrace positive risk assessment and decision making to reduce boundaries around risk averse practice
Change Management and Ownership
Become co-creators of change within the communities you serve and the system you work within
Question assumptions around practice and structural hierarchies and take responsibility for new ideas and creativity
Actively participate in and understand the wider transformative vision of Southend
Adopt critical thinking by creating a new approach to understanding the system wide picture
Utilise creativity and step up to offer your views and opinions.
Quality Assurance
Take professional responsibility and ownership of your work to ensure continual development
Ensure that your competency workbook is completed to a high standard and ...
