Neuro Rehab Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all clinical work undertaken. To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, and professional organisations.

2. To undertake a range of routine and specialist assessments as an autonomous practitioner (on an individual or group basis) which is evidence based and uses standardised assessments and outcome measures where appropriate.

3. To have a comprehensive knowledge of anatomy, neuro-anatomy, and links with impairments and how they can impact on function. To educate others when required. E.g. post stroke impairments and impact on function

4. To use clinical reasoning skills to interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis and with patient involvement determine an appropriate care plan based on knowledge of current professional opinion, clients prognosis, priorities and other physical, social, emotional and mental health issues.

5. To formulate and negotiate patient centred goals/ clinical objectives with clients, carers relatives, and other health professionals and ensure that these are reviewed and modified as appropriate.

6. To deliver evidence based treatment programmes within a team approach in a variety of settings ensuring that manual handling, therapeutic handling, patient education, exercise prescription and self-management resources comply with current national and local guidelines and are communicated appropriately.

7. To devise and manage a treatment plan tailor-made to the patients presenting condition through, for example:

Functional rehabilitation ie ADLs & PADLs

Vocational rehabilitation

Equipment provision

Orthotic assessment

Community-based activities e.g. graded outdoor mobility programme

Cognitive/memory ax & treatment

Education

Health Promotion

Addressing relevant psychosocial issues

Other treatment options.

8. To work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and routinely support an extensive range of sign-posting activities across multiple statutory and voluntary organisation e.g. referrals for further investigations, referrals within the team and referrals to other community services.

9. To manage a caseload of clients with complex needs with supervision and guidance as necessary from senior staff. To successfully monitor, evaluate and review physiotherapy treatment/interventions within a multi-disciplinary framework and to modify as necessary, taking a key worker role as indicated.

10. To ensure that the client understands the clinical reasoning process and the management plan and is supported to engage in self-management activities where possible.

11. Act as an advocate on behalf of clients and carers by adopting a client centred approach to support meaningful participation in life roles within Ealing.

12. To advise and teach the relevant carers/health workers to participate in on-going therapy/rehabilitation care programmes for clients, as appropriate

13. To modify the clients therapy treatment/management plan as appropriate following ongoing re-assessment, risk assessment and evaluation of progress.

14. To support with discharge planning activities and risk assessments e.g. making recommendations for follow up therapy, determining equipment needs, determining care needs after your input has concluded.

15. To use knowledge of other multi-disciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure appropriate referrals are made as part of the seamless transfer of care to other services and allow patients to self manage their condition.

16. To represent the occupational therapy service at multi-disciplinary team meetings. This will involve providing information on clinical progress, risk assessments and engaging in team discussions to determine appropriate transfer of care options.

17. To actively participate in health promotion & health education initiatives and programmes in the locality.

18. To manage clinical risk within own and team caseload and delegate effectively to rehabilitation assistants with appropriate support from senior staff.

19. To be confident in the safe use and application of all equipment used in patient care and rehabilitation including the use of specialist equipment.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• Degree Occupational Therapy
• State registration with HCPC
• Relevant Post Registration courses or in-house training
• Membership and/or involvement in National special interest group

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working in the UK health service or a similar health economy as an Occupational Therapist
• Significant post -registration working as band 5 or band 6 or equivalent in experience
• Experience in a variety of core areas to include the following: ? Neurology ? Community
• Previous experience of working with students or supervising students

Desirable

• Management experience of departmental duties
• Experience in care of Older people

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrate ability to use Computers including: internet, word, power point and excel

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ealing Day Treatment Centre

1 Britten Drive

Southall

UB1 2SH

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)