Job summary
The Greenwich Joint Emergency Team is looking for and enthusiastic team member to be part of a dynamic team. The team aims to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions and facilitate early discharges from hospital by acting as the gateway to the Integrated Community Services within the borough of Greenwich. The team provides a multi-professional assessment of health and social care needs, recommending admission to intermediate care facilities for rehabilitation or referring to the integrated community services for rehabilitation at home when appropriate.
You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management. The team provides a service in clients' own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in-service training. In exchange for your professional skills, passion and commitment to patient centred care, we offer you a supportive, friendly team where you will be listened to, feel valued and be developed as a Band 6.
Main duties of the job
With support and training from the Highly Specialist Band 7 OT, you will provide specialist l OT assessment and treatment to clients presenting with highly complex medical and social needs.
The service encourages continued professional development, with in-service training within the team and quarterly professional peer supervision with all Trust OT's. This post also offers the opportunity to develop supervisory skills, by being responsible for a therapy assistants and student OTs as required. You will the opportunity to work closely with other colleagues in the South East London sector .
It is essential that you will need to be able to independently travel across the borough.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
* To be responsible and accountable for management and implementation of management plans following assessment
*To provide Occupational Therapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual care plans
*To be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to Occupational Therapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines
*To ensure management of clinical risk within own caseload
*To maintain up-to-date clinical written records using trust systems and computerised database in accordance with local and professional standards; including use of local authority electronic records.
*To manage a clinical caseload, taking responsibility for decisions regarding review and discharge of clients.
*To work as a member of the MDT
*To support the development of evidence based OT practice
*To contribute to service development
*To participate in research/audit activities
*To supervise the work of teams support staff and OT students on fieldwork placement
*Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
*To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
Job description
Job responsibilities
* To be responsible and accountable for management and implementation of management plans following assessment
*To provide Occupational Therapy assessment as an autonomous and lone practitioner to clients, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence based practice to develop individual care plans
*To be responsible for obtaining client and/or carer consent prior to Occupational Therapy intervention in accordance with professional guidelines
*To ensure management of clinical risk within own caseload
*To maintain up-to-date clinical written records using trust systems and computerised database in accordance with local and professional standards; including use of local authority electronic records.
*To manage a clinical caseload, taking responsibility for decisions regarding review and discharge of clients.
*To work as a member of the MDT
*To support the development of evidence based OT practice
*To contribute to service development
*To participate in research/audit activities
*To supervise the work of teams support staff and OT students on fieldwork placement
*Contribute to and carry out risk assessment & risk management plans
*To provide specialist OT advice to the MDT
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Degree / Masters in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Leadership training
- Specialist training in acute/emergency /community care
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with clients in a community setting
- Evidence of MDT working
- Experience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of using relevant outcome measure
Desirable
- Experience of supervising assistants and students
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
- Knowledge of specific patient conditions acquired through training and experience
- Knowledge and experience of a range of treatment approaches
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- To perform clinical skills in assessment and/or diagnosis and/or treatment
Desirable
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Degree / Masters in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC registered
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Leadership training
- Specialist training in acute/emergency /community care
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with clients in a community setting
- Evidence of MDT working
- Experience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of using relevant outcome measure
Desirable
- Experience of supervising assistants and students
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
- Knowledge of specific patient conditions acquired through training and experience
- Knowledge and experience of a range of treatment approaches
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- To perform clinical skills in assessment and/or diagnosis and/or treatment
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
