Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patients' lives and to be part of a platinum accredited service providing excellent patient care.
QVM is a 21 bedded community hospital providing Rehabilitation for a wide range of conditions (medical, orthopaedic, neurological, falls, frailty) in a warm and friendly environment.
You will carry a caseload of patients as part of the inpatient therapy team, guiding their assessment, treatment, and discharge planning on a 17-42 day admission pathway.
Main duties of the job
To undertake a significant clinical caseload to a high professional standard, using specialist knowledge and skills from theoretical and practical experience.
To be responsible for the supervision, education and assessment of junior staff, technical instructors and students.
To communicate with relevant medical and nursing staff, social workers, other health care professionals, patients, relatives and carers.
To actively participate in Continuous Professional Development and departmental educational and training activities.
To carry out accompanied home visits and unaccompanied access visits to assess the patients' functioning in their own environment and communicate with relatives and carers regarding further care and/or treatment at home.
To participate in departmental audit and research as required.
About us
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for, all aspects of your own work. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.
To hold clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively regarding clinical priorities and use of time, working without direct supervision.
To independently undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance areas including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing patient centred goals to address occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling patients in the areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
To facilitate educational and rehabilitative group sessions for selected patients.
To undertake the continuous assessment and evaluation of the treatment programmes and modify the programmes according to the individual patient needs.
To be actively involved in patient discharge planning.
At all times to be aware of the needs of the patients and their carers and to promote and encourage patient independence and where possible restore functional ability.
To assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.
To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and departmental and Trust requirements.
See Job Description for further details
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for, all aspects of your own work. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.
To hold clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively regarding clinical priorities and use of time, working without direct supervision.
To independently undertake comprehensive and where applicable, standardised assessments of patients looking at all Occupational Performance areas including self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
To formulate soundly reasoned prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing patient centred goals to address occupational performance and skill deficits, enabling patients in the areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
To facilitate educational and rehabilitative group sessions for selected patients.
To undertake the continuous assessment and evaluation of the treatment programmes and modify the programmes according to the individual patient needs.
To be actively involved in patient discharge planning.
At all times to be aware of the needs of the patients and their carers and to promote and encourage patient independence and where possible restore functional ability.
To assess and manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.
To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and departmental and Trust requirements.
See Job Description for further details
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Occupational Therapy degree qualification
- Attendance at post graduate course(s) in relevant field
- Registered with HCPC
Desirable
- Attendance at relevant post-graduate training courses e.g. Dementia, elderly care, frailty, stroke etc.
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 1 year's post registration experience in a broad rotational post
- Appropriate in-patient rehabilitation experience
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of complex discharge planning including access visits, home visits and equipment ordering
Desirable
- Experience of supervising therapy assistants and/or students
- Involvement in service development and audits
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance
- Ability to present information accurately, written and oral, in English
- Ability to perform specialist hands-on therapeutic interventions and moving and handling techniques
Desirable
- Clinical problem solving ability in complex cases
Other
Essential
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Occupational Therapy degree qualification
- Attendance at post graduate course(s) in relevant field
- Registered with HCPC
Desirable
- Attendance at relevant post-graduate training courses e.g. Dementia, elderly care, frailty, stroke etc.
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 1 year's post registration experience in a broad rotational post
- Appropriate in-patient rehabilitation experience
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of complex discharge planning including access visits, home visits and equipment ordering
Desirable
- Experience of supervising therapy assistants and/or students
- Involvement in service development and audits
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive information requiring empathy and reassurance
- Ability to present information accurately, written and oral, in English
- Ability to perform specialist hands-on therapeutic interventions and moving and handling techniques
Desirable
- Clinical problem solving ability in complex cases
Other
Essential
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
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).
