Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Community Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 338-6358655-24
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whitby Community
- Town
- Whitby
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Community Occupational Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice for a specialist caseload in a variety of setting's
To follow the Occupational Therapy process / pathway with patients within standard operating procedures and contribute to care planning as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support, training, and advice regarding the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, and externally with other agencies.
Main duties of the job
To help people who have difficulties carrying out day-to-day activities because of a disability, illness, trauma, ageing, and a range of long-term conditions.
To support the Urgent Community Response service in Whitby, aiding prevention of unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating early discharges from hospital.
To delegate intervention to the appropriate staff members to enable evidence-based patient care and promote patient flow.
Provide occupational therapy advice to other disciplines and provide training and competency support to the wider team.
Participate in departmental research.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide and receive complex, sensitive, and challenging clinical information to patients, carers, and a range of health professionals regarding personal, physical, and or psycho-social problems in an empathetic and supportive way.
Regularly demonstrate specialist skills in assessing the needs of patients and their relatives, based on the analysis of a range of complex facts and situations. Interventions will be planned on the assessment and interpretation of this information e.g., risk assessment.
To contribute to assessment and management plan for patients/service-users with high risk clinical needs to ensure safety of patients/service-users, carers, staff and the general public.
To plan a range of care for patients e.g., organising appointments, treatments, interventions, care programme approach (CPA) reviews.
Develops and maintains the patients control over decision making, assesses the patients commitment to the jointly determined plan of care, setting SMART goals, and fosters personal responsibility for health and well-being.
To contribute to reviewing, developing, and monitoring operational/clinical policy, relevant to occupational therapists within the clinical area based on evidence-based practice.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Specialist understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area.
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at a specialist level of care
- Ability to effectively commute between the organisations various sites
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment
- Previous experience working as a community based Occupational Therapist
- Leadership qualification/equivalent experience if required
- Teaching qualification or equivalent presentation skills/training experience
- Evidence of continuing learning and CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of case load management within specialist service area, some of which may be complex
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at a specialist level of care
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Donna Savage
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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