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Reem Altamimi

Reem Altamimi

Northampton, Northamptonshire

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About Reem Altamimi:

I would like to apply for the occupational therapy role as advertised on the website.

 

Currently I am working with the stroke services in Northampton General Hospital. I have joint this team in November, 2011. This team focused on providing intensive rehabilitation to stroke patients at both hospital patients’ homes. This role increased my skills to assess, treat, develop activity plans to help stroke patients achieve their goals. I worked as a part of a team but also autonomously and managed my case load effectively.  As this team was new when I started, I was involved with setting it up and be part of several projects to enhance service development. For example, I was part of completing time tabling which organized our case load. Moreover, I was involved with house training to all staff. For example, I complete manual handling teaching and training to all the team every 2 years. I also devised a washing dressing activity plans specifically for stroke patients that we give them to continue their washing and dressing practice.

Moreover I devised a washing and dressing template that can be used as non-standardized outcome measure. Also I completed a cognitive resource that is used by staff in the community and in hospital to ensure we provide efficient cognitive rehabilitation to patients.  

I work within a multi-disciplinary team so communication is essential to facilitate efficient rehabilitation service. I demonstrated this through leading MDT and provided a chance to all team members to contribute as needed. I also communicate with external agencies like attending MDT in the hospital to facilitate discharge and care transfers. Within this team I deal with other agencies like family members, carers, social services…etc.

 

Within this role I demonstrated an ability to negotiate care plans, goals and use outcome measures to evaluate therapy input and to enhance efficiency of service delivery and the best use of resources to managing a very tight budget. For example I get involved with reducing care needs through rehabilitation, assessing and managing issuing equipment.

 

With this team, I complete an in house training, group clinical supervision and journal clubs to deliver evidence based service. As a part of this I complete rehab assistance competencies which enables appropriate delegations to staff.  As a senior member of staff I mange day to day tasks within the team like sick leave and return to work interview, respond to referrals, and liaise with other team members. Moreover I lead team meetings like MDT where we discuss patients’ progression and discharge. I also complete induction to staff and students. I have been involved in interviewing and recruiting staff from different professions to work within the team.

 

 

I maintain up to date CPD which includes reflection in different forms like one to one, or in a group. Moreover I keep my knowledge and skills up to date though setting my yearly objectives in my appraisals. I read most recent research to find the best method of treatments to facilitate rehabilitation. Having regular students have helped me to be up to date with teaching, new technology and new ideas.

 

 

Previously I worked in the stroke unit at NGH to cover maternity leave. This service aims to help stroke survivors to overcome their limitations to live as independently as possible with a period of rehabilitation. During this experience I have worked independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team that provides occupational therapy services. This includes assessment, treatment planning and implementation, equipment prescription and education of clients and their caregivers to promote functional independence in both acute and rehabilitation ward.

 

Prior to this, I have worked with the Intermediate Care Team in Northampton as a locum since December the 7th of 2009. This service aims to help people live independently as much as possible in their own homes, following an illness or injury. ICT aims to avoid unnecessary stays in hospital hence facilitated early discharge and prevents hospital admission. The maximum intervention of this service normally lasted no longer than six weeks and is more usually one to two weeks, or less. This multidisciplinary and fast service required fast learning and fast response which I managed to demonstrate during my work with ICT.

 

The teams I have joined in both settings include nurses, CPN, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, community practitioners and rehabilitation assistance. I also worked with care managers and other professionals who devise individual care plans to enable people to return to, or remain at home.

 

In both jobs I have demonstrated abilities to work independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team providing efficient occupational therapy services in both hospital and community setting. Moreover I worked closely with professionals to identify any evident of cognitive impairment, communication difficulties, and anxiety to develop and implement strategies to overcome these barriers. For example I worked with SALT team to utilize various methods of communication like life books or diagrams or letter pointing to communicate with patients. During my work experience in the community I acted as the patient’s advocate throughout their rehabilitation Programme and enable patient’s empowerment through the process. For example I liaised with private care agency to ensure that they follow the rules and regulations of the care provided and in some cases I had to liaise with nurses to raise SOVA to protect vulnerable patients.

 

During my work in NGH, the community and within the specialist care centers I have demonstrated efficient and effective high standards of patient care where I worked independently to manage my own case load. In the specialist care centers in particular I worked independently to assess the risk associated with patient’s return home and managed to minimize these risk and increase safety. Furthermore I was responsible for organizing and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change/arise. I was able to provide a weekly capacity figures to ensure effective caseload management.

 

 

During my work with in both services I managed to contribute to the organization and the overall goals of the profession and department. I participated in departmental/program quality assurance initiatives, meetings, research, and education; and provide work direction to the rehabilitation assistants working with the rehabilitation team. For example i was involved with changing the referral procedures for PT and OT to enhance better cohesion of the service within ICT. Moreover, I have worked with students and rehab assistance through facilitating their learning by including them in the assessment process, by promoting research new techniques and clinical evidence. While I have worked with the agency I was able to attend conferences on my own time like dementia debate, Naidex and training like documentation and note writing to increase my skills and improve my professional development. This demonstrates my time management skills to organize my Msc studies, my work with the agency and maintaining an efficient CPD.

 

As an OT I believe that I demonstrated excellent communication skills both oral and written, this can be seen academically and through my documentation at work. I have excellent computer skills and am highly competent with Windows packages, such Word, Excel, Power Point and Access. This was demonstrated by using system one and care plans. I believe that I am flexible and adaptable and this can be seen when I first arrived in the U.K., where I realized that I would need to grasp and adapt quickly to the different lifestyle of this country. This can also be seen in my academic life where I have organized my work load and met deadlines whilst working part time as occupational therapist.

 

I feel that I would be an asset to any organization and hope that upon reviewing my CV you will be able to find a position within your organization suitable to my skills.

Experience

I would like to apply for the occupational therapy role as advertised on the website.

 

Currently I am working with the stroke services in Northampton General Hospital. I have joint this team in November, 2011. This team focused on providing intensive rehabilitation to stroke patients at both hospital patients’ homes. This role increased my skills to assess, treat, develop activity plans to help stroke patients achieve their goals. I worked as a part of a team but also autonomously and managed my case load effectively.  As this team was new when I started, I was involved with setting it up and be part of several projects to enhance service development. For example, I was part of completing time tabling which organized our case load. Moreover, I was involved with house training to all staff. For example, I complete manual handling teaching and training to all the team every 2 years. I also devised a washing dressing activity plans specifically for stroke patients that we give them to continue their washing and dressing practice.

Moreover I devised a washing and dressing template that can be used as non-standardized outcome measure. Also I completed a cognitive resource that is used by staff in the community and in hospital to ensure we provide efficient cognitive rehabilitation to patients.  

I work within a multi-disciplinary team so communication is essential to facilitate efficient rehabilitation service. I demonstrated this through leading MDT and provided a chance to all team members to contribute as needed. I also communicate with external agencies like attending MDT in the hospital to facilitate discharge and care transfers. Within this team I deal with other agencies like family members, carers, social services…etc.

 

Within this role I demonstrated an ability to negotiate care plans, goals and use outcome measures to evaluate therapy input and to enhance efficiency of service delivery and the best use of resources to managing a very tight budget. For example I get involved with reducing care needs through rehabilitation, assessing and managing issuing equipment.

 

With this team, I complete an in house training, group clinical supervision and journal clubs to deliver evidence based service. As a part of this I complete rehab assistance competencies which enables appropriate delegations to staff.  As a senior member of staff I mange day to day tasks within the team like sick leave and return to work interview, respond to referrals, and liaise with other team members. Moreover I lead team meetings like MDT where we discuss patients’ progression and discharge. I also complete induction to staff and students. I have been involved in interviewing and recruiting staff from different professions to work within the team.

 

 

I maintain up to date CPD which includes reflection in different forms like one to one, or in a group. Moreover I keep my knowledge and skills up to date though setting my yearly objectives in my appraisals. I read most recent research to find the best method of treatments to facilitate rehabilitation. Having regular students have helped me to be up to date with teaching, new technology and new ideas.

 

 

Previously I worked in the stroke unit at NGH to cover maternity leave. This service aims to help stroke survivors to overcome their limitations to live as independently as possible with a period of rehabilitation. During this experience I have worked independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team that provides occupational therapy services. This includes assessment, treatment planning and implementation, equipment prescription and education of clients and their caregivers to promote functional independence in both acute and rehabilitation ward.

 

Prior to this, I have worked with the Intermediate Care Team in Northampton as a locum since December the 7th of 2009. This service aims to help people live independently as much as possible in their own homes, following an illness or injury. ICT aims to avoid unnecessary stays in hospital hence facilitated early discharge and prevents hospital admission. The maximum intervention of this service normally lasted no longer than six weeks and is more usually one to two weeks, or less. This multidisciplinary and fast service required fast learning and fast response which I managed to demonstrate during my work with ICT.

 

The teams I have joined in both settings include nurses, CPN, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, community practitioners and rehabilitation assistance. I also worked with care managers and other professionals who devise individual care plans to enable people to return to, or remain at home.

 

In both jobs I have demonstrated abilities to work independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team providing efficient occupational therapy services in both hospital and community setting. Moreover I worked closely with professionals to identify any evident of cognitive impairment, communication difficulties, and anxiety to develop and implement strategies to overcome these barriers. For example I worked with SALT team to utilize various methods of communication like life books or diagrams or letter pointing to communicate with patients. During my work experience in the community I acted as the patient’s advocate throughout their rehabilitation Programme and enable patient’s empowerment through the process. For example I liaised with private care agency to ensure that they follow the rules and regulations of the care provided and in some cases I had to liaise with nurses to raise SOVA to protect vulnerable patients.

 

During my work in NGH, the community and within the specialist care centers I have demonstrated efficient and effective high standards of patient care where I worked independently to manage my own case load. In the specialist care centers in particular I worked independently to assess the risk associated with patient’s return home and managed to minimize these risk and increase safety. Furthermore I was responsible for organizing and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change/arise. I was able to provide a weekly capacity figures to ensure effective caseload management.

 

 

During my work with in both services I managed to contribute to the organization and the overall goals of the profession and department. I participated in departmental/program quality assurance initiatives, meetings, research, and education; and provide work direction to the rehabilitation assistants working with the rehabilitation team. For example i was involved with changing the referral procedures for PT and OT to enhance better cohesion of the service within ICT. Moreover, I have worked with students and rehab assistance through facilitating their learning by including them in the assessment process, by promoting research new techniques and clinical evidence. While I have worked with the agency I was able to attend conferences on my own time like dementia debate, Naidex and training like documentation and note writing to increase my skills and improve my professional development. This demonstrates my time management skills to organize my Msc studies, my work with the agency and maintaining an efficient CPD.

 

As an OT I believe that I demonstrated excellent communication skills both oral and written, this can be seen academically and through my documentation at work. I have excellent computer skills and am highly competent with Windows packages, such Word, Excel, Power Point and Access. This was demonstrated by using system one and care plans. I believe that I am flexible and adaptable and this can be seen when I first arrived in the U.K., where I realized that I would need to grasp and adapt quickly to the different lifestyle of this country. This can also be seen in my academic life where I have organized my work load and met deadlines whilst working part time as occupational therapist.

 

I feel that I would be an asset to any organization and hope that upon reviewing my CV you will be able to find a position within your organization suitable to my skills.

Education

In 2010, I completed my master degree in Advanced Occupational Therapy in the University of Northampton UK.

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