Rotational B5 Community Occupational Therapist

3 days ago


Hitchin, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a aspiring and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our Band 5 Community Rotation within HCT North Herts ICT Team.

You will have the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge within a wide range of specialist teams, including our Community Integrated Services, Discharge Home to Assess, Early Support Discharge Team, Inpatient Rehab and Neurological Units (Herts and Essex Hospital, Danesbury) and Children and Young Persons Services.

You will have an opportunity to network within our highly skilled and experienced pool of Occupational Therapists at HCT, and will be supported along your career with training and regular supervision to ensure your practices are relevant and reflected of up to date practices.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

Be part of a skill mixed team delivering high quality Occupational Therapy Assessment and Interventions

Work in partnership with GPs, Adult Social Care, Continuing Health Care and local equipment and wheelchair providers

Be offered a wide range of training opportunities including, preceptorship, functional assessment and moving and handling training

Will have access to regular clinical supervision sessions to support your practice

Will have experience in using electronic records and be able to be a mobile worker

Have a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

About us

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You'll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

We are proud to be an armed forces friendly employer and support the employment of the armed forces community, including veterans, spouses and partners. For more information, contact .

We don't want you to miss out so we'd like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You've made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we're looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide assessment and treatment packages of high-quality healthcare for patients rehabilitation needs in a variety of settings. These will include bed bases, patients homes, and community settings To hold responsibility for your own case load, working without direct supervision. To actively participate in regular formal and informal supervision and training, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences and reflective practice with a senior Occupational Therapist. Represent the occupational therapy service and/or individual patients at the multidisciplinary team meetings. To ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service and integrateoccupational therapy intervention into a patients multidisciplinary treatmentprogramme. This will include discussion of individualised patient care and treatment packages, patient progress, and involvement in discharge planning. To be responsible for the safe and competent use of all equipment used within the role including manual handling equipment, ADL equipment, and other patientappliances and aids. Check all equipment prior to use and report any faults to the relevant authority. To be responsible for organising and planning your own caseload to meet serviceand patient priorities. To be adaptable and re-adjust plans as situations change/ arise. To undertake, as directed, the collection of data for use in service audit and researchprojects. To participate in research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of MDT audit and departmental research initiatives To assist in the clinical supervision and education of rehabilitation assistants/therapy assistant practitioners. To assist in the clinical supervision of Occupational Therapy students on placementas required. To liaise with consultants, patients, family, carers, multidisciplinary team, allied health professionals, nurses, Adult Care Services, voluntary sector, enablement carers, GPs, acute hospital teams, Community Health Services, Continuing Care Panel, sports and leisure, Hertfordshire Equipment Service , educational settings,SEND, and others as applicable Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Occupational Therapy degree

Desirable

Experience as a band 5/student in acute or in-patient adult rehabilitation, elderly care, and neurology

physical skills

Essential

Ability to carry out patient manual handling tasks.

Desirable

Ability to carry equipment such as wheelchair and commodes in and out of stores/ car and patient`s homes.

General

Essential

Hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Experience and knowledge

Essential

Knowledge and/or experience of using a range of therapeutic occupational therapy interventions for the treatment of patients with a range of conditions.

Desirable

Able to work as an autonomous practitioner

Knowledge and skill

Essential

Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, other health professionals, patients or all ages and their relatives/carers, other non-health professionals

Knowledge and skill

Essential

Ability to work in a team and have an understanding of what makes good teamwork

Mental Effort

Essential

Ability to work under time constraints, ability to work autonomously

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