Rotational Occupational Therapist-Surrey Downs Health & Care

Job summary

Surrey Downs Health & Care

The post holder will be responsible for assessment, treatment planning and intervention delivery of patients referred to their caseload. The post holder will be required to supervise junior staff, technicians, assistants and students as appropriate. They will be expected to participate in development and monitoring of service standards and to assist in the running of the day to day service.The rotation consists of five clinical speciality areas as detailed below. Post holders will rotate between posts approximately every nine months or shorter/longer depending on joining date or the needs of the service. Training opportunities exist, integrated with a Personal Development Plan/Appraisal, ensuring staff participate in CPD. All staff must be flexible and willing to work in any area. All rotations are cross site and the post holder will be required to be flexible in their working site.

Areas of Rotation:

1. Acute Neurology Stroke Rehabilitation

2. Care of the Elderly

3. General Medicine

4. Orthopaedics & Surgery

5. Early Rehabilitation Team

6. Frailty

Main duties of the job

• To assist in planning and providing a high quality service for service users, in conjunction with the service manager and senior therapists.
• To be responsible for managing own case load and prioritising as appropriate.
• Depending on complexity of client need and caseload, take responsibility for designated caseload of patients to negotiate, agree and plan interventions.
• To keep up to date comprehensive records/reports, which are clear and concise for the client's records and which comply with quality standards of Trust/Service policies and meet legal requirements.
• To monitor the effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measures and evaluation of practice.
• To apply good clinical reasoning skills in order to facilitate safe, timely discharge for clients requiring OT intervention
• To monitor and review the client's progress to ensure a consistent, equitable, high quality service, and to change intervention to meet clinical need as necessary.
• To work with clients and carers to assist them in making decisions regarding their needs by providing relevant information and advice.
• To liaise with multidisciplinary team and use clinical judgement, to plan and carry out Access, Home and Follow up visits (to patient's home) depending on clients needs

About us

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people's own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier's University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It's on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.