Job summary
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care organisation which aims to provide high quality, safe and effective health and social care.
Our vision is a community where we are all supported and empowered to be as well and as independent as possible, able to manage our own health and wellbeing, and in our own homes.
We have a great opportunity available within our Intermediate Care and Community Therapy Team. We are looking for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist with experience or a Band 5 Occupational Therapist looking for career progression.
Main duties of the job
The Intermediate Care Service facilitates crisis management in the community, prevention of hospital admissions, quicker discharge from hospital and supports people to remain as independent as possible at home. Patients are seen within the most appropriate setting; at home and in intermediate care placements in residential care homes. The team works in a truly integrated way, with nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, pharmacist, dietician and a paramedic.
The Community Therapy service enables therapists to work autonomously, managing their own caseload. Types of referrals vary, with a chance to practice or develop skills in moving & handling or complex seating assessments, as well as stair lift referrals and other access & environmental solutions.
The post holder will be well supported by senior staff, as well as by the wider multi-disciplinary team, which will include medical support. There will be opportunities to supervise band 5 Occupational Therapist's, support workers and students. There are excellent CPD training opportunities, including OT peer support groups, training from the South Devon Health Services training and development team, Clinical Interest Groups and peer support.
About us
Torbay and South Devon offers the opportunity of a great work life balance with a variety of outdoor activities and natural beauty on tap.
Our team is based at Sherborne House in Newton Abbot and provides a community service to the residents in the Newton Abbot Locality. The multi- disciplinary Intermediate Care and Community Therapies Team have a hard-working, flexible and can-do approach. The team are supportive and friendly, adapting to the ever changing demands on the service.
Torbay and South Devon offers the opportunity of a great work, life balance with a variety of outdoor activities and natural beauty on tap.
Why work with us- Torbay Hospital provides acute care for the local community and has several community hospitals, and is a hot-spot for those who are considering living by the sea or within half an hour of Dartmoor National Park and an hour to Exmoor National Park. Meanwhile, Plymouth and Exeter are also both within a short drive to enjoy the culture, maritime history and shopping experiences.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assess patients understanding of interventions, gain valid formal consent and jointly agree goals. To have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Communication will include imparting sensitive and comprehensive information relating to diagnosis, prognosis, physical and functional recovery, and potential life style adjustments, to patients and their relatives. This may involve informing patients that they may be unable to return home or return to their previous level of activity/work/leisure.
- To use, regularly and spontaneously, verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, prognosis, and progression of rehabilitation and treatment programmes with patients and/or carers. This will include patients who may have difficulties with regard to complex emotional/psychological/physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who may be depressed, deaf, blind, and unable to accept their diagnosis, or have difficulty in understanding or communicating. Communication will involve the use of skills in motivating, negotiating, counselling, training, empathising and reassuring.
- To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal, departmental and RCOT standards of practice, and to monitor that of less experienced staff
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assess patients understanding of interventions, gain valid formal consent and jointly agree goals. To have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Communication will include imparting sensitive and comprehensive information relating to diagnosis, prognosis, physical and functional recovery, and potential life style adjustments, to patients and their relatives. This may involve informing patients that they may be unable to return home or return to their previous level of activity/work/leisure.
- To use, regularly and spontaneously, verbal and non-verbal communication tools to discuss complex information about underlying influences, prognosis, and progression of rehabilitation and treatment programmes with patients and/or carers. This will include patients who may have difficulties with regard to complex emotional/psychological/physical conditions relating to the presenting complaint. This client group includes those who may be depressed, deaf, blind, and unable to accept their diagnosis, or have difficulty in understanding or communicating. Communication will involve the use of skills in motivating, negotiating, counselling, training, empathising and reassuring.
- To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation, in line with legal, departmental and RCOT standards of practice, and to monitor that of less experienced staff
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- o Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
- CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
- Experience within NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions
- Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Proven post-graduate experience
- Wheelchair accreditation
- Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment
- Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation
- Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure
- Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven ability to work autonomously
- Knowledge of specialised disability equipment
- Therapeutic and manual handling skills
- Detailed understanding of roles of the MDT, health and social care agencies
- Understanding of clinical governance issues
- IT skills
- Relevant professional and clinical experience
- Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
- Clinical leadership skills
- Recruitment and selection training
- Appraisals and supervision training
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and ability to carry out fast track assessments
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of seating and postural management
- Experience of handling complaints
Specific Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of vulnerable adults' protocols and procedures
- Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings
Desirable
- Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations.
- Experience of initiating change in the workplace
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- o Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Valid state registration with Health Professions Council
- CPD portfolio and evidence of recent post graduate learning relevant to area of clinical practice
- Experience within NHS including experience working in a variety of roles, for example orthopaedics, elderly care and musculoskeletal conditions
- Experience in the NHS working in a community setting
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Proven post-graduate experience
- Wheelchair accreditation
- Pressure care knowledge and prescription of suitable equipment
- Knowledge and understanding of complex legislation
- Evidence of ability to make decisions under pressure
- Evidence of excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven ability to work autonomously
- Knowledge of specialised disability equipment
- Therapeutic and manual handling skills
- Detailed understanding of roles of the MDT, health and social care agencies
- Understanding of clinical governance issues
- IT skills
- Relevant professional and clinical experience
- Experience of supervision of junior staff and/or OT students
Desirable
- Clinical leadership skills
- Recruitment and selection training
- Appraisals and supervision training
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of using standardised assessments, including specialist cognitive assessments
- Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning skills and ability to carry out fast track assessments
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of seating and postural management
- Experience of handling complaints
Specific Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of vulnerable adults' protocols and procedures
- Moving and handling protocols and procedures to include provision of hoists and specialist slings
Desirable
- Crisis intervention/acute medicine/vital signs/ taking baseline observations.
- Experience of initiating change in the workplace
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
