Lead Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £51,488.00 to £57,802.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51488.00 - £57802.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW12 9HS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9294-24-0359 |
Summary
To use available evidence base and work in partnership with service users, carers, colleagues and other stakeholders. To offer interventions that are person centred, respecting choice and values. To use a problem solving approach, identifying and managing risk, and working in the most appropriate environment for service users and their carers will ensure equitable and accessible service provision. To offer interventions aimed at empowering service users to take responsibility for self-management, where this is possible To work with service users individually or in groups, as appropriate. To independently manage a caseload of service users with highly complex health and social care needs, who may have multiple pathologies and no formal medical diagnosis. To undertake highly specialist, comprehensive, person centred Occupational Therapy assessments, using both standardised and non-standardised tools, to ascertain service users level of functional ability, support and accommodation needs. To develop and implement highly specialised intervention/treatment plans, working in partnership with service users, carers, MDT and others, in order to achieve identified goals and agreed outcomes. To promote independence, develop/maintain function and train service users, carers and colleagues in carrying out appropriate parts of the intervention programme To evaluate outcomes, re-assessing and modifying goals and intervention plans as necessary in order to measure effectiveness of intervention and progress or plan discharge. To use advanced clinical reasoning and reflection, to evaluate and interpret the range of complex information gathered during assessment and intervention with service users. To assess for, prescribe/recommend, assemble and monitor specialist equipment, environmental adaptations, wheelchairs, specialist seating and postural control systems in order to ensure that people with additional physical disabilities are able to live as independently as possible and minimise the physical demands on carers. To initiate and undertake complex risk assessments, both individual and environmental, in order to advise on appropriate management for moving and handling, and the safe use of equipment and adaptations in home and day care settings, where this forms part of an intervention programme. To use verbal and non-verbal communication tools to gain valid informed consent prior to assessment and intervention and use the legal framework pertaining to service users who lack the capacity to consent. To work autonomously with service users in a range of settings including their home, out in the community, day care, work or college placements and other health settings.