Specialist Occupational Therapist/ Physiotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

*To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.

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

*To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professional, to promote understanding of the aims of the self-management programme and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

*To communication and liaise effectively with other members of the multi-professional team about patient issues in order to facilitate a team approach to patient care.

*To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation and gaining informed consent will be used with a wide variety of patients. Barriers to effective communication will regularly be evident, e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain and fear. Some patients may lack the capacity to consent to treatment.

*To effectively manage patient flow through management of triage processes.

*To respond to patient queries and enquiries, providing information and support via email and telephone.

Professional

*Maintain accurate 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.

*To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with MDT colleagues across health and social care economy to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated service.

*Demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation, and ensure others do likewise

Organisational

*Plan and organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time.

*Decide priorities for own work area and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the speciality and department as a whole.

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

*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 senor staff and ensuring that equipment used is safe

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

*Any other duties which might be considered appropriate by the ME/CFS Service Lead.

*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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy/Nursing
• *Registration with HCPC/ NMC

Desirable

• *Membership of professional body
• *Relevant validated clinical courses

Experience

Essential

• *Relevant post graduate experience
• *Multi-agency working

Desirable

• *Experience at senior level
• *Previous experience in the specialist area of ME/CFS

Additional Criteria

Essential

• SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
• *Excellent interpersonal skills
• *Assessment, problem solving and planning skills
• *Forward thinking
• *Ability to work independently
• *Self-directed learning
• *Conflict management skills
• PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• *Flexible working
• *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.

Desirable

• SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
• *Experience of working with people with ME/CFS or people experiencing fatigue

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

Address

Hamilton House

Battery Green Road

Lowestoft

Suffolk

NR32 1DE

Employer's website

https://www.ecch.org/ (Opens in a new tab)