Specialist Occupational Therapist
Job Description
Job summary
We know the power of rehab. Want to make real change? Join us to help patients excel with their rehab goals. Using your core occupational therapy skills, you will design creative and innovative therapy solutions for patients.
Our energetic and passionate team consists of physiotherapists, rehab support workers, social workers, pharmacists and nurses. Working together you will support adults with client-centred rehab programmes, optimising their independence and quality of life.
We want the focus on rehab for our patients and not paperwork. Using the power of technology we can take notes 'on the go' with our various systems EPIC, Rover and Dragon.
Our core working sites in Brixton, Oval and Streatham are centred within vibrant and exciting communities.
What else?
We have excellent access to a vast array of ADL equipment and have a large cohort of rehab support workers.
You'll benefit from our award winning "Showing We Care About You Programme". It offers many types of support (financial wellbeing, career development, value and recognition, work-life balance) to help you in your professional, personal and family life.
We are one of the UKs leading providers of hospital and community-based healthcare, research and education. As part of the Kings Health Trust, you will have opportunities for comprehensive training and development to continuously improve patient care and progress your career.
Main duties of the job
Intermediate Care Lambeth provides integrated health and social care at home to adults aged 18 years & older who live in the borough of Lambeth. The people that we support have a range of diagnoses and clinical presentations.
Our service aims to:
- Facilitate the safe discharge of people from healthcare in hospital to healthcare at home.
- Provide intensive, short term multi-disciplinary rehabilitation & care support to promote functional independence.
Our Professional Offer to You: o Further develop your clinical skills, e.g. assess for suitable equipment, minor home adaptations, cognitive assessment, functional and Moving & Handling assessments.o Develop your skills in holistic assessment, problem solving, intervention planning and joint working with other health and social care colleagues.o Develop management and operational skills.o Access appropriate GSTT leadership development training courses to support career development. o Support you to be involved in OT meetings and In-service training.o Provide supervision and clinical support.
At GSTT we are committed to providing: o Professional expert advice, including access to our Professional Leads in our Community and Hospital settings.o An annual appraisal and PDR.o Structured in-service development programs and supervisions. o Support to undertake research, audit and service evaluation. o Training links to London Southbank and King's College Universities.o Support to develop your skills in preparation and presentations
About us
Guys and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust:
From our5main hospitals, and in thecommunity, we provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well asclinical research, innovation,education and training.
We're a diverse and welcoming organisation, and are incredibly proud of our 25,500 staff and the dedication they show to our patients and each other.
We aim to be outstanding in everything we do and to provide high quality and compassionate care and experience to all of our patients and families.
As a leading centre of clinical research with a long history of innovation and medical firsts, we are able to provide the latest and most advanced treatments. We'reranked top in Englandfor the number of trials open for patients to join and in the top 10 for the number of patients recruited to help us in our research.
Together with our partners inKing's Health Partners, we form 1 of the UK's 8 Academic Health Science Centres.
Our world famous teaching hospitals train the doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals of the future.GKT School of Medical Educationis our medical school, run jointly withKing's College LondonandKing's College Hospital.
We're guided byour values in everything we do and, as one of the largest employers in London, we reflect the diversity, opportunity and ambition of our communities and the people we serve.
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
- To have responsibility for specialist rehabilitation and therapy assessment, specialist intervention, care planning and review of individual clients on caseload.
- To delegate rehabilitation and care tasks to RSWs and Senior RSWs.
- To provide case management for adults and older people through intensive short term support and rehabilitation programmes.
- Goal setting with clients in order to maximise their independence in the community, facilitate early discharge from hospital, reduce reliance on care and reduce admissions to long term domiciliary care.
- To work, frequently as a lone practitioner and at times in conjunction with team colleagues, across a variety of locations within the community including clients homes and residential care settings to meet the individual needs of the multi-cultural population in an inner city area.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner complying with the standards set by the regulatory body (Health Professions Council), professional body (Royal college of Occupational Therapy), government, Trust and department, thereby being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work and to meet the requirements for professional registration.
- To work as part of a flexible multidisciplinary team, across traditional professional boundaries to meet the needs of clients using a holistic and client centred approach
- To be responsible for practice, education, assessment, mentorship and preceptorship of students and new/junior members of staff. To work towards organisational priorities and achieving service aims.
- To support the departments commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence it is essential the post holder be able to work their hours flexibly and contribute fully to both existing and new rotas over a 7 day week, including weekday and weekend on call shifts.
Person Specification
Professional/Statutory Registration
Essential
- HCPC registered Occupational Therapist
Desirable
- Member of British Association of Occupational Therapists
- Member of Specialist Interest Group
Additional Information
Desirable
- A valid current licensed UK car driver
Physical Requirements
Essential
- Able to comply with Manual Handling guidelines by ensuring safe handling of clients and equipment
- Able to travel across the Borough and Sector
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Occupational Therapy or recognised equivalent
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration education in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Significant broad based post registration experience at band 5 or above
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary or multi-agency team
- Experience of working in a rehabilitation team environment
- Experience in carrying out complex assessments and interventions including, but not limited to, physical and cognitive rehabilitation in functional tasks, work and leisure.
- Experience of working with clients with complex packages of care, which involve other agencies
- Able to manage staff conflict and difficult situations and to challenge and support others appropriately and assertively
- Able to identify symptoms of changing condition of clients and take appropriate actions
Desirable
- Experience working as a Specialist Occupational Therapist in a team and in managing staff
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of clinical audit, benchmarking and evaluation of services
- Experience of direct supervision of more junior staff, and experience of educating and assessing students or junior staff
- Experience of identifying the development needs of others and giving effective feedback
Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
Essential
- Able to work as an autonomous practitioner
- Able to identify when specialist therapy, nursing or medical skills are required and refer appropriately
- Able to make sound evidence-based clinical judgements and decisions regarding client care and to be accountable for choices made
- Able to work across primary and secondary care interface
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Able to work flexibly, prioritise and respond to changing demands in workload
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