Rotational Occupational Therapist Band 6 - Beccles, United Kingdom - East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

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Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have excellent communication skills, consider yourself to be caring and compassionate and want to make a difference to the patient's experience ?

We are looking for a part time Occupational Therapist to join our band 6 rotation made up of Primary Care Home, Neurology and Frailty. This post is for hours.

The Primary Care Home Team - is a multidisciplinary team of Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapist, Assistant Practitioners, Paramedic, Phlebotomist, Healthcare Assistants working closely with GP's, Social Services and other community providers to provide an excellent standard of person centered care to adults in their own homes, residential care or 'beds with care', supporting people to self manage whenever possible. As a Occupational Therapist within the team you will lead on on the reablement of patients to ensure the patients needs and goals are met, regularly liaising with team members to progress rehab programs relevant to changes in the patients condition, this will range from reacting to patient in crisis, palliative patients, to supporting discharge and admission avoidance. You will have a focus on optimising independence in activities of daily living.

Main duties of the job

The Integrated Community and Neurology Team - The Integrated Community Neurology Team, supports patients with a range of neurological conditions and consists of Specialist Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioners. This unique team works with people with acquired neurological conditions such as Stroke and Spinal Cord Injuries to provide goal centered rehabilitation in both clinic and home settings, as well as long term conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinsons and Motor Neurone Disease to provide ongoing reviews supporting them throughout their journey from initial diagnosis, including long term condition management and palliative care. For all conditions our aim is to improve patient quality of life and maximise their independence.

The Frailty Prevention Team is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners, Exercise Professionals and Nurses. The team provides admission avoidance, Frailty Prevention Assessments,

Falls Assessment, Home Hazard and Environment Assessment, Equipment Provision, Strength and Balance training. The Team will endeavor to advise patients, relatives and carers on how best to assist patients to remain well and manage their everyday living. Our aim is to maximise their independence, achieve their goals and to support them to remain safe and well at home.

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.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise, as well as excellent communication and organizational skills. We provide a structured supervision program, including clinical support and regular in-service training. In return, we expect applicants to show a commitment to Continued Professional Development and evidence based practice.

Job responsibilities

To apply specialist skills and knowledge to manage acaseload of complex cases using evidence based / patient centred principles toassess, plan implement and evaluate interventions in order to establishprofessional competence to practice as a senior Occupational Therapist.

Take responsibility for your own personal andprofessional development; maintain competence, knowledge and skillscommensurate with role.

Using a standardised approach but with a high degreeof professional autonomy and accountability, work across Health, Social Care,Voluntary and other health providers and agencies, to identify a defined groupof patients with complex needs to provide a single plan of care co-producedwith the patient

Using specialist clinical practice skills assess thephysical and psychosocial needs of a defined client group.

Critically analyse clinical data and information toinform diagnosis and, where appropriate, order investigations and/or instigatetherapeutic treatments to inform clinical decision making and improve healthoutcomes.

Provide individualised care plans for a complexpatient caseload and ensuring that any delegated workload is completed by staffwith the appropriate competencies.

Analyse complex patient situations and needs, eitheras part of a complex caseload or to provide advice and support to others withinthe Primary care network.

Use assessment tools/skills that will ensure anappropriate level of therapeutic intervention so that patients who present withhighly complex needs are timely referred to the appropriate specialist servicesor interventions.

Be accountable for practice taking every reasonableopportunity tosustain and improve knowledge and professionalcompetence and, ensure that all aspects of professional behaviour as requiredwithin the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Occupational Therapists(Royal College of Occupational Therapist) and Standards of Proficiency forOccupational Therapists, (Health and Care and Professions Council, HCPC) arefollowed at all times.

Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patientrecords in accordance with ECCH Policy and the Royal College of OccupationalTherapy Standards for Record Keeping.

Assist with the investigations of complaints,participate in the risk management process, critical incident reporting,evaluation, dissemination and change in practice.

Be responsible for understanding, following andimplementing ECCH policies and procedures, and influencing working practices tosupport this accordingly.

Contribute to the clinical governance agenda throughparticipation in clinical risk assessment and management, clinical audit.

Create an environment conducive to effective working,respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.

Take responsibility to ensure compliancy with Healthand Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.

Create an environment conductive to effective working,respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.

Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs, strategicdirection, values and culture in relation to proactive and reactive services.

Discuss all treatment options with sensitivity,knowledge and expertise and to act as a patient advocate when appropriate andrespecting patient confidentiality whist privacy with respect for the patient.

Plan and organise a range of complex activities in awide range of settings to ensure best practice is delivered across thedesignated area of responsibility and the wider community.

Understand and support the achievement of ECCHbusiness plan objectives and performance targets, and initiate and participatein screening and needs assessment as required.

Identify the potential for service developments, riskand deficits and inform line manager making recommendation based onprofessional knowledge.

Plan and organise a range of complex activities in awide range of settings to ensure best practice is delivered across yourdesignated area of responsibility and the wider community.

To participate within the wider integration acrossTherapies and wider Community Care teams including Primary, Social Care, andall other provider organisations to provide high standards of care to patientsand where appropriate avoiding unnecessary admission to secondary care or caresettings.

Assist with the implementation of pathways andguidelines to develop and deliver new innovative models for service delivery,ensuring a leading edge approach to service development in-line with evidencebased practice, national guidance at a local level.

Contribute and develop systems to monitor, evaluateand audit service quality mechanisms to meet nationally and local targets.

Maintain a high level of performance and be goal andoutcome focussed when faced with opposition or when working under conditions orpressure.

Monitor and maintain standards / provide benchmarkingdata to allow comparison with other healthcare providers and identifyingongoing workforce development needs.

Participate in teaching and clinical supervisionwithin Therapy services and other provider staff as required.

Critically evaluate research findings, nationalguidelines and implement changes inclinical practice as appropriate.

Be responsible for participating and maintaining alearning environment to enhance individual development and performance in thedelivery of high standards of care.

To work with patients to identify patient goalsembedding the health coaching approach to patient care.

Use specialist generalist clinical skills to evaluatethe delivery of care, identifying subtle changing health care needs. Being ableto completely discuss treatment options with other generalists and specialists.

To be an integral member of the clinical service, workingwith a shared vision and developing caseloads in partnership with each other todeliver both proactive and reactive care.

Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for theclinical caseload and co-ordinate care across the whole patient pathway withinECCH. This included ensuring a robust relationship and constant interface with healthand social care services across the geographical footprint.

Work with partners within Primary and Social care todevelop a model of care which identifies self-management and a health coachingethos.

Negotiate and agree with the patient carers and otherhealthcare professionals, individual roles and responsibilities with actions tobe taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services orprofessionals as appropriate.

Work in partnership with the patients to empower themto make informed choices about their healthcare and support choices.

Participate within local networks in partnership withother health and social professionals/agencies and national links to developprotocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effectiveprovision of Occupational Therapy.

Work with partners within care settings to provideproactive and reactive care to improve the health outcomes of the residents.

Provide professional expertise, acting as a resourceto other professionals within and outside your own organisation, regardingclinical issues to ensure continuous service provision and inter-professionalworking.

Work with ECCH Colleagues, and other partner agenciesand stakeholders including the acute trust to contribute to the development anddelivery of new innovative models of service delivery, ensuring a leading-edgeapproach to service development in-line with evidence based practice.

Take responsibility for the cost-effective managementand use of expensive and complex equipment, provide recommendations foreffective use of resources and contribute to the effective delivery of costimprovement planning.

Analyse, interpret compare and contrast complex information,service requirements and options ensuring the effective approaches to servicedelivery and team working.

Evaluate the impact of these training programmes, forpatient and carers, to ensure that they provide the necessary knowledge andskills to gain independence, safely manage changing circumstances and plan forunavoidable progression of conditions.

All roleswithin East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate ourValues and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide topatients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staffshould consider these as an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that wecan all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE . These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone .

Underpinning our Values are our SignatureBehaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build astrong culture. Our four SignatureBehaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn,We Lead| Action - MyAccountability, My Responsibility | Respect - RespectOurResources:People, Time and Money | Everyone - WorkTogether, Achieve Together .

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Skills and Knowledge

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Experience

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