Community Occupational Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Tachwedd 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £38,682.00 i £46,580.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 05 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Gloucester, GL1 3PX |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9327-25-1093 |
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Clinical Responsibilities- To manage as an independent skilled practitioner, using advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and analytical skills. To be accountable for own professional actions- To be competent in assessing a persons support needs and identifying specific support and where rehabilitation would improve independence.- To monitor, evaluate and modify goals/treatment using appropriate outcome measures to ensure effectiveness of interventions.- To be competent in environmental risk assessments and managing risk autonomously within the home environment. To promote a positive risk taking approach to facilitate retention of patient independence and well-being.- To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload. This may involve complex decision making regarding patients being safe to remain in their place of residence or requiring admission to hospital.- To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent, to work within a legal framework to manage the patient appropriately.- To provide spontaneous and planned advice and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapyfor each individual patient, and to ensure continuation of the individualised goal plan that has been set in collaboration with the patient/family/carer. This will include moving andhandling advice and falls prevention.- To attend and initiate multidisciplinary / multi agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the coordination of patient care. This will include review of patient progress, setting of short and long-term goals, and discharge planning.- To ensure all personal and team written and electronic documentation is kept up to date and accurate and handle records and all other information in accordance with professional standards, applicable legislation, protocols and guidelines; nationally.- To undertake ongoing measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, and the application of evidence-based practice and research where appropriate.- To work to Trust and Royal College of Occupational Therapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored.- To meet potential requirements of flexible working as part of potential changes in service re-design or to support staffing difficulties.- To identify and employ suitable verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients, relatives and carers who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating for example, hearing loss, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, dementia, pain, fear or the inability to accept diagnosis (including the terminally ill patient).- To educate patients/relatives/carers regarding the nature of the condition/prognosis, the aims of occupational therapy intervention and long-term management in the home.- To engage the patient, and relatives/carers where appropriate, in the planning and agreement of goals to maximise rehabilitation potential.- To employ appropriate skills to facilitate motivation and gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed goal plan/treatment programme and management of the patients condition.- To communicate with empathy, patient information which may be of a complex and sensitive nature.- To communicate complex patient-related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with other professionals across health and external agencies- To assist the senior staff with the prioritisation and management of a designated departmental caseload, as well as with urgent referrals. - To supervise, train, advise, support and manage occupational therapists, occupationaltherapy assistants, students and community care workers performance who report to the post-holder.- To deal with issues relating to performance management in consultation with line manager and professional lead as appropriate- To attend and contribute to departmental, countywide and wider organisational meetings to ensure the effective exchange of information across the team and co-ordination of local service delivery.- Supervise work experience students.- To take responsibility for the appropriate selection, issue and education regarding the safe use of equipment to patients (following specialist assessment)- To undertake specific tasks as designated by more senior staff and to delegate specific tasks or workload to unregistered staff.- To contribute to the occupational therapy service development through audit and dissemination of information.- To propose service changes for own work area based on specialist knowledge, and if requested lead local project groups. Once agreed then implement, monitor and audit if appropriate.- To participate in the trusts individual review process as an appraisee and appraiser, with responsibility for clinical supervision (formally every 8 weeks as a minimum) for all staff that are line managed by the post holder.- To adhere to the policies and procedures of the Trust and occupational therapy service. The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas