Palliative Care Therapy Team – OT or Physio
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Walsall, WS3 1SJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9407-24-0204 |
Summary
To act as an autonomous practitioner with senior practitioner skills. This involves undertaking a comprehensive assessment of clinical needs of individuals with a palliative care diagnosis within a wide range of disease pathologies using advanced investigative and analytical skills to formulate individualised management and treatment plans using advanced clinical reasoning and reflection and utilising a wide range of highly developed treatment skills to deliver a specialised programme of care and make necessary adjustments as required. To accept clinical responsibility for a caseload palliative care patients across a variety of settings, effectively and efficiently coordination their assessment, intervention, evaluation and discharge to optimise clinical priorities and use of time. To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of individuals in your care, providing appropriate written clinical reports and the maintenance of case notes to agreed departmental and professional standards. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis, anticipating the effects of disability in a wide range of highly complex physical, emotional, psychological and social circumstances recommending the best course of intervention, and developing comprehensive discharge plans and on-going clinical management. To co-ordinate and ensure a high standard and effective delivery of service to individuals with palliative care needs under your management, providing specialist advice and support to other Therapy Services Staff and colleagues from other disciplines and within other clinical areas to do likewise. To supervise and develop the junior members of the Palliative Care Therapies team and act as an advisor and supervisor as appropriate with support workers and volunteers involved in service delivery. This will include the use of formal appraisal documentation. To demonstrate highly developed communication, psychological and observational skills for assessment, treatment of individuals and equipment provision. To plan and implement client-centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals. To apply an advanced level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide expert training, advice and education on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the individuals social and physical environment, including leisure, education and work related activities. To possess excellent risk assessment skills of community situations, demonstrating the ability to act appropriately to ensure your safety and that of others when functioning as lone practitioners. To communicate effectively in a specialised way with individuals and carers to maximize realistic rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition and prognosis. To provide expert advice and be responsible for assessment and provision of specialist ADL equipment where appropriate, to maximise quality of life, adhering to departmental policy including competence to use equipment and ensuring the safe use of equipment by others. Please see attached Job Description for exhaustive list of responsibilities