- To be responsible for receiving requests for occupational therapy, triaging and prioritising these, completing evidence-based assessments and interventions to address key occupational areas of self care, productivity and leisure.
- to use client-centred approaches to co-producing negotiated occupational goals and evaluate these with service users collaboratively.
- To participate in clinical/professional and management supervision
- To contribute to multi-disciplinary team working
- To contribute to and lead on service improvement and quality initiatives
- To use the Trust electronic patient record system
- To abide by all Trust policies and procedures
- To be able to respond flexibly and creatively to challenges
- Degree in Occupational Therapy or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
- Clinical Supervisory Skills course (or willingness to undertake within agreed timescale).
- Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment (or willingness to undertake within an agreed timescale)
- Successful completion of preceptorship year as a graduate occupational therapist (or equivalent in non-NHS sectors)
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Accredited Practice Placement Educator (APPLE)
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Significant knowledge to post-graduate level of the needs and difficulties of service users in designated specialist area.
- Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Significant experience in Occupational Therapy including experience working with service users in mental health or learning disabilities with complex needs.
- Experience of supervising students on placement
- Experience of developing and delivering training
Specialist Occupational Therapist - Bishop Auckland, County Durham, United Kingdom - Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
2 weeks ago
Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a competent, confident, and enthusiastic full time Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our team. The Care Home Liaison Hub team is based within the Older People's Services covering County Durham and Darlington and is located at Auckland Park Hospital, Bishop Auckland.
The multi-disciplinary team works with people living in a care home with a behaviour that challenges, often associated with a cognitive impairment and/or complex mental health presentations, and their families to deliver specialist assessment and non pharmacological interventions to improve their quality of life.
We are looking for an OT who can work flexibly to meet service need and has the vision, energy and inspiration to develop creative, imaginative solutions to delivering occupational therapy with older people and families.
You will access wider support from the occupational therapy network in MHSOP in TEWV, to develop a way of delivering a high quality, needs-led OT service, utilising core occupational therapy skills to ensure all of the people we work with have a robust occupational therapy assessment and intervention plan in place.
As a Specialist Occupational Therapist in TEWV you will manage a complex caseload independently, assessing occupational performance and delivering specialist occupational interventions, demonstrating adherence to the Trust Values at all times and operating as a leader in the team, service and organisation.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life. Job description Job responsibilities The post holder will provide evidence-based occupational therapy assessment and interventions as part of the OT Pathway linked to the Dementia Pathway and the Behaviours that Challenge Clinical Link Pathway and offer input to individuals, their families and carers, in the care home setting.
All team members must be committed to providing the best possible care for the people we work with and their families/carers.
The ability to engage and communicate with our older people as well as the parents/family/carers and system around them is essential.
Clinical/Professional supervision is provided by the supervising Occupational Therapist as identified by the relevant Lead OT. The postholder will attend OT Learning and Governance Networks to ensure fidelity to core occupational therapy delivery, enhance CPD and contribute to the wider OT service developments.
You must be able to demonstrate experience of delivery of occupational therapy, keenness to continually develop themselves and others, and a particular interest in this field of OT. We will support use of transferrable skills from a range of clinical settings.
There are varied opportunities for training and development, with CPD needs being identified and monitored through appraisal. Person Specification Qualifications Essential
Westfield Road
Bishop Auckland
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