Bank Occupational Therapist

4 weeks ago


Hull, United Kingdom Dove House Hospice Full time

Job summary

Can you take an active part in multi-disciplinary working, planning and development and evaluation of services?

Can you work to client-centered goals, promoting a balance in their daily living tasks in personal and domestic care, work, productivity and leisure?

Are you able to work autonomously to undertake the specialist comprehensive assessment of patients with a range of complex health and social care needs and multi-pathologies, demonstrating highly specialised skills and advanced clinical reasoning?

Could you critically analyse and implement research into practice? If the answers are yes, then team Dove House is for you

The role is based at the hospice on Chamberlain Road working within both the inpatient unit and onsite outpatient clinic.

Main duties of the job

Dove House Hospice provides specialist palliative care to the population of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The occupational therapist will have a pivotal role in developing and delivering the occupational therapy service to patients and carers that access Dove House Hospice. Work as an autonomous practitioner utilising high level problem solving skills, across the clinical settings as needed. Manage, prioritise and deliver occupational therapy intervention to a diverse caseload of clients with palliative care needs. To work and liaise with the multi-disciplinary team, develop strong links with outside agencies and services. To work without direct supervision and to be professionally accountable for own actions.

About us

Dove House Hospice supports patients with life limiting illnesses to live every moment. It is our vision to provide a sustainable, comfortable and caring environment in which to offer exceptional, specialist palliative care to patients, carers and their families. All roles throughout our organisation contribute to making this vision a reality for those living in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire who rely on us to provide the care that is right for them, in the place of their choice.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide a clinical service for individuals and their carers to the nationally agreed standards ( COT standards).

Provide an occupational therapy service across the clinical settings and prioritising these cases as appropriate.

To work autonomously to undertake the specialist comprehensive assessment of patients with a range of complex health and social care needs and multi-pathologies where a medical diagnosis may not be formalised, demonstrating highly specialised skills and advanced clinical reasoning Be accountable to the Health Professionals Council Take an active part in multi-disciplinary working, planning and development and evaluation of services.

Participate in the referral assessment, intervention and evaluation in order to meet client and carer need. Assess and diagnosefunctional/perceptual/cognitive/social/physical/ environmental problems.

Design, implement and evaluate treatment programmes to address these problems.

Work to client-centered goals, promoting a balance in their daily living tasks in personal and domestic care, work, productivity and leisure.

Use normal movement approach in assessment and treatment of activities of daily living.

To plan and carry out rehabilitation programmes to improve and maintain independence with activities of daily living. Assess personal needs with regards to activities of daily living and prescribe any equipment and/or adaptations of task or environment necessary to improve physical and/or psychological functioning of the patient.

To assess for the provision of wheelchairs, in line with the wheelchair service criteria.

Establish a therapeutic relationship with clients/carers through motivation and negotiation in order to achieve the optimum outcome for the patient.

Act as an advocate for patients as appropriate and necessary eg liaising with other services.

To provide crisis intervention, especially when referred very late in the course of their life threatening illness.

Participate in and co-ordinate the discharge planning of patients to other community services as appropriate.

To take an active part in multi-disciplinary working, planning and development and evaluation of services.

To maintain, monitor and review standards set for the service and actively participate in improving the service provided.

Communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers/family and reassurance regarding the outcome of therapeutic intervention.

Utilise specialist clinical knowledge/skills and judgement in order to devise appropriate courses of treatment for patients who are experiencing dysfunction in daily living tasks and occupational roles. Critically analyse and implement research into practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy HPC Registration

Experience

Essential

4 years minimum post qualification experience. Evidence of continuing professional development. Broad based experience in physical and psychological medicine with evidence knowledge/experience in relevant clinical area.

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