Occupational Therapist Band 6

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of individuals in your care.

To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills.

To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently about clinical priorities and use of time.

To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management, and support more junior staff to do likewise.

To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients, using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualized and management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis and prognosis in a wide range of conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention and to develop comprehensive management strategies for the patients presenting condition.

To use a range of standardised and non-standardised assessment tools and techniques to identify presenting strengths and difficulties. To enhance and develop the skills and dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients. To be safe and competent in the use of therapy equipment.

To refine treatment techniques in line with the most recent evidence of clinical effectiveness by evaluating and implementing key developments and promoting discussion within service.

To devise individualised therapy management or treatment plans which may be implemented and supported by other members of the multidisciplinary team.

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

To assess mental capacity, gain valid informed consent and can work within a legal framework with patients who lack this capacity to consent to treatment. Demonstrate the ability to overcome barriers to communication.

To have a working knowledge of equipment, minor adaptations and resources including Activities of Daily Living equipment, therapy, and rehabilitation aids, moving and handling equipment and a basic knowledge of wheelchair provision to compensate for unresolved functional deficits, in line with local resources, guidelines and legislations.

To consider the needs of carers to ensure necessary support systems are in place and to involve them in the rehabilitation process.

To consider the potential psychological risk factors and functional implications of these.

Demonstrate the ability to overcome barriers to communication.

Managerial:

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

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

To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in the reviewing and updating as appropriate.

Be actively involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the service.

To deputise for Band 7 in terms of operational issues when appropriate.

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

Professional:

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

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

To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD),

Identify objectives for personal development.

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

Undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices using evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with the support of the audit team potentially resulting in recommendations for change.

Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters in line with professional standards.

Be aware of the Health and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies which may be required to improve the safety of your work area, including the prompt recording, and reporting of accidents to senior staff, and ensuring that equipment is safe.

Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situation.

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

To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in their review as appropriate.

All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can 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 Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the integration agenda.
• Able to work collaboratively within a team
• Able to work independently
• Committed to personal and team development.
• Self-directed learning
• Ability to deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety and aggression.
• Capacity to concentrate for considerable periods of time during assessment and management of patients and be expected to respond immediately to interruptions.

Desirable

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of and the implications of standard 6 of the NSF for the elderly, NICE Clinical Guidance 21 (Falls Prevention) and the RCP Falls and Bone Health Audit.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Able to work collaboratively within a team
• Able to work independently, Committed to personal and team development
• Committed to personal centred, non-discriminatory practice
• Aware of requirements of confidentiality
• Forward thinking
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to maintain judgement under pressure
• Able to maintain motivation, drive and enthusiasm
• Confident
• Flexible approach to work and participate in shift patterns
• Ability to travel around ECCH area to deliver patient care.
• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
• (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy.
• Registration with HCPC
• Continued professional development portfolio including evidence of reflective practice, in service training, and any courses attended and clinical experience gained.

Desirable

• Post graduate course(s) relevant to post.
• Membership of relevant professional network
• APPLE or Student supervisor course

Experience

Essential

• Postgraduate experience.
• Experience of working as part of therapy team and multi-disciplinary team.
• Completion of preceptorship.
• Experience of working with frail older adults.
• Awareness and understanding of HCPC and RCOT standards and other national and local initiatives.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments.
• Self-directed learning

Desirable

• Clinical experience gained in a community/intermediate care setting.
• Student supervision/clinical education.
• Palliative care
• Complex manual handling skills, knowledge of hoists, stand aids, turntables.
• Experience of audit
• Experience of teaching on inhouse sessions to staff or service users.
• Presentation skills
• Evidence of membership clinical specialist interest groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).