Occupational Therapist B6 - Lowestoft, United Kingdom - East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

Description

Job summary

We are seeking to appoint a motivated Occupational Therapist to join the Primary Care Home Hub (PCH) based at Hamilton house in Lowestoft. The team delivers Community healthcare to patients in their own home in the Lowestoft area.

This role focuses on the provision of Occupational therapy assessment and interventions. Delivering care, support and encouragement to patients in order to promote independence. Responding to patient and family needs. Prevent unnecessary hospital admission and support end of life care at home. The Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary team of Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, and Rehabilitation Support Workers delivering nursing, therapy and reablement/rehab services to adults in their own homes.

Do you have excellent communication skills, consider yourself to be caring and compassionate and want to make a difference to the patients experience on a daily basis, whilst being able to demonstrate how you embody our values and commitments and have a desire for personal and professional develop? This could be your new job.

Ideally some experience in community work would be an advantage, but we will support transition from a different therapy environment for the right candidate.

Support and training to develop your leadership and line management skills will be provided.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of occupational therapy within the integrated community services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to patients within a range of domiciliary settings.

To provide clinical case management for a caseload of patients who require occupational therapy.

Participate in rapid assessment for patients who present with a variety of acute, chronic, and age-related conditions.

To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope of professional practice.

To supervise delegation of work to the Therapy Assistant Practitioners.

To provide clinical leadership, operational management and professional support to other members of the multidisciplinary team within the Primary Care Home.

Contribute to recruitment and retention of staff and team development

The service uses SystmOne as a clinical IT system to support mobile working.

The service operates 7 days a week 7:00 to 20:30 hours. Applicants for this post will be required to work between Monday to Friday, flexibility of start and finish times will be considered. At times you may be required to work with another of the 4 PCH's from a different location to cover staff sickness, or capacity pressures.

For further information or an informal visit please contact Therapy Lead

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.

Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

To beprofessionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of ownwork, including the management of individuals in your care.

To undertake thecomprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complexpresentation, using investigative and analytical skills.

To acceptclinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organisethis effectively and efficiently about clinical priorities and use of time.

To ensure a highstandard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and supportmore junior staff to do likewise.

To undertakecomprehensive assessment of patients, using investigative and analytical skillsand to formulate individualised and management and treatment plans, usingclinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and optionsto formulate a specialised programme of care.

To interpret andanalyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis andprognosis in a wide range of conditions, to recommend the best course ofintervention and to develop comprehensive management strategies for thepatients presenting condition.

To use a range ofstandardised and non-standardised assessment tools and techniques to identifypresenting strengths and difficulties. To enhance and develop the skills anddexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manualtreatment of patients. To be safe and competent in the use of therapyequipment.

To refinetreatment techniques in line with the most recent evidence of clinicaleffectiveness by evaluating and implementing key developments and promotingdiscussion within service.

To deviseindividualised therapy management or treatment plans which may be implementedand supported by other members of the multidisciplinary team.

To provideadvice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, and other professionals,to promote understanding of the aims of therapy to ensure a consistent approachto patient care.

To assess mentalcapacity, gain valid informed consent and can work within a legal frameworkwith patients who lack this capacity to consent to treatment. Demonstrate theability to overcome barriers to communication.

To have a workingknowledge of equipment, minor adaptations and resources including Activities ofDaily Living equipment, therapy, and rehabilitation aids, moving and handlingequipment and a basic knowledge of wheelchair provision to compensate forunresolved functional deficits, in line with local resources, guidelines andlegislations.

To consider theneeds of carers to ensure necessary support systems are in place and to involvethem in the rehabilitation process.

To consider thepotential psychological risk factors and functional implications of these.

Demonstrate theability to overcome barriers to communication.

Managerial:

Training,supervision and performance management of other members of themultidisciplinary team which may include Assistant Practitioner, NursingAssociates, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, Nurses,Rehab Support Workers and students, with assistance from more senior members ofthe team. This will include the use offormal appraisal documentation.

To provideteaching/training to other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

To comply withthe organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involvedin the reviewing and updating as appropriate.

Be activelyinvolved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use ofthe service.

To deputise forBand 7 in terms of operational issues when appropriate.

Participate inany other duties which may be deemed appropriate by the management team.

Professional:

To workautonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope ofprofessional practice.

Adhere to HealthCare and Professions Council and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (COT)Professional Standards and Conduct, Organisational Policies, and guidance.

To maintain ownclinical professional development (CPD).

Identifyobjectives for personal development.

Participate inthe staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Programme (PDP).

Undertake themeasurement and evaluation of your work and current practices usingevidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, eitherindividually or with the support of the audit team potentially resulting inrecommendations for change.

Maintainaccurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date documentation in line with legal anddepartmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results tothe appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters in line withprofessional standards.

Be aware of theHealth and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies which may berequired to improve the safety of your work area, including the promptrecording, and reporting of accidents to senior staff, and ensuring thatequipment is safe.

Demonstrate asound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply towork situation.

To be responsiblefor equipment used in carrying out your duties and to adhere to departmentalpolicies, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use ofequipment by others through teaching, training, and supervision of practice.

To comply withthe organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involvedin their review as appropriate.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Desirable

Personal Attributes

Essential