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Occupational Therapist
| Posting date: | 25 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 March 2025 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9216-25-0339 |
Summary
Clinical 1. Ensure the patients, relatives, and those the therapist encounters are aware of the role of the Occupational Therapist and components of the Occupational Therapy treatment programme. 2. Obtain informed consent from the patient, and work within the current legal framework for patients who lack capacity to consent, prior to commencing any treatment. 3. Select from a wide range of standardised and non-standardised assessments to assess and aid diagnosis of cognitive, perceptual, behavioural, physical, and social functioning of the patients referred. This includes, but is not limited to social environmental interview, cognitive tests (Mini ACE & ACE III), personal care assessments, kitchen assessments, feeding assessments. 4. Make reliable interpretations of the assessment results, to inform other professionals in the diagnosis and management of the patients. Also to guide the Occupational Therapy treatment plan, and for the recommendation of the discharge destination, rehabilitation, or placement. 5. Plan, deliver and review treatment programmes in close liaison with all members of the multi-disciplinary team, patients, carers, and family in accordance with any consent given. Addressing areas such as disease management, sensory, motor, splinting, psychosocial needs, and functional abilities. 6. Carry out environmental home assessments & pre-discharge home assessments as required. Assess the patient carrying out functional skills to maximise independent living, arranging equipment provision, adaptations, and support services as required. Assess for disability access and safety, also ensuring access to community resources and assessing carer needs. 7. Assess for and provide aids and adaptive equipment to increase / enable independent function, teaching compensatory techniques as required. These include but are not limited to feeding, dressing, domestic & leisure activities. Responsible for providing information and instruction for the safe use of the items provided. 8. Rise requisitions for minor adaptation on behalf of Social Services; and OT equipment on behalf of the OT Department, Derriford Hospital, per referral. 9. Assess for wheelchairs, specialist seating and positioning needs treating as appropriate, referring on to wheelchair and seating clinics as required. 10. Responsible to plan, deliver and review treatment programmes in close liaison with all members of the multi-disciplinary team, patients, carers, and family in accordance with any consent given. For further details please see attached JD&PS.