Senior Occupational Therapist - Community

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Description

Section 2 - Knowledge and Skills:

Communications

The post holder will need to:

• Develop working relationships with the immediate team
• Communicate with a wide range of people to ensure that treatment planning and intervention is holistic and cohesive
• Use a variety of communication methods throughout the working day, eg: email, written records and telephone.
• Communicate difficult or sensitive information relating to patient care
• Ensure that all locally produced information documents are in the corporate style and that all written information complies with Trust policy

Responsibility for Patient Care

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Carrying out appropriate occupational therapy assessments, based on good practice

• Developing treatment plans, tailored to the patient's need and demonstrating sound clinical reasoning
• Delivering therapeutic intervention based on the findings of your assessments
• Promoting self-management to all patients
• Supporting patients (and their carers if appropriate) by providing information which is well sourced and of good quality.
• Assist patients, carers, relatives during incidental contact

Planning and organising

The post holder will:

• Organise and plan their own day to day workload, in order to meet the demands of the service and job role
• To participate in the supervision of more junior/unqualified staff
• To supervise occupational therapy students on clinical placement within the team

Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources

The post holder will ensure safe and effective use of equipment, resources and consumables at all times.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation

The post holder will:

• Be aware of, comment on and actively participate in changes on policy, procedure or service development.
• To contribute to service development within the team
• Embrace and support line management and the department, in making service improvements effective within the work place
• To contribute to interdisciplinary training
• Attend training as identified in appraisal

Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership

The post holder will:

• Support new or less experienced work colleagues to adapt to the work place

Responsibilities for Teaching and Training

The post holder will:

• Participate in training and development activities that are relevant to the job role
• Deliver education and training to patients, their carers and other appropriate agencies, in relation to the role of an occupational therapist, the patient's condition, healthy lifestyle choices and self-management
• Support learners of all disciplines and be a main educator for occupational therapy learners

Responsibilities for data and information resources

The post holder will:

• Comply with the standards expected by the Organisation, in relation to the inputting of activity data

Research, Development and Audit

The post holder will:

• Contribute to departmental, local or National audits when required

Section 3 - Effort and Environment:

Physical Skills and Effort

The post holder will:

• Be required to carry out activities which involve manual handling and physical activity
• Have access to reliable transport
• Be required to switch attention between tasks throughout the day
• Be required to use a computer for parts of every day

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BSc/MSc/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of CPD

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience on junior rotations

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of manual handling guidelines
• Previous experience of community working
• Previous experience of being part of an MDT

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage own caseload and prioritise work
• Ability to communicate effectively with people who have barriers to understanding
• Ability to communicate with patients, carers and other professionals in health/social care and voluntary agencies
• Ability to assess and plan treatment using a problem solving approach

Work related Circumstances

Essential criteria

• Registration with the HPC
• Access to reliable transport that will allow transportation of heavy and/or bulky equipment

New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute. These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.

Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.

At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.

At the Trust we always adhere to the UK Visas and Immigration rules pertaining to right to work; candidates who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) citizenship are required to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to be eligible to apply for either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa which allows them to work in the UK, unless they have eligibility to work in the UK via another route.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

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Documents to download

• Job description and person specification (PDF, 496.3KB)
• Candidate Pack (PDF, 917.8KB)
• Hospital Floor Plan (PDF, 50.9KB)
• Positive About Disability (PDF, 191.5KB)
• Hospital Site Map (JPG, 160.9KB)
• Trust's Values and Behaviours (PDF, 495.1KB)