Job summary
As part of the continued growth and development of the Reablement Service within Hampshire, we are excited to share the opportunity for you to join us in the position of an Advanced Practitioner Occupational Therapist. This role will be fundamental to support our evolution into an Occupational Therapy principled service.As an Advanced Practitioner (OT), you will be a practice leader who champions excellent Occupational Therapy evidence-based practice within Reablement, Hampshire County Council, external organisations and with other professionals.You will have the skills, knowledge and experience to provide practice expertise within your own complex caseload and you will guide, advise and supervise / mentor team members, with an expectation to provide support on a countywide basis. Your practice will be characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making and you will be a key player within both local leadership teams and the countywide consultant team.Advanced Practitioners in Occupational Therapy will support excellent standards of practice across both the Reablement Service and the wider department. This is encompassed by the four pillars of professional practice, facilitation of learning, leadership and education, research & development. (RCOT 2021).The Reablement Service operates 7 days a week and there will be a requirement to work weekends on a rotational 1:8 basis.
Main duties of the job
To provide person centred functional analysis and interventions, through the enactment
of social care legislation and local government requirements. This is informed by
occupational therapy clinical knowledge, skills and values. There is particular
responsibility to work as an independent practitioner in high risk cases, manage
workload, and/or line manage/supervise staff.
About us
For further information please visit our Reablement website.
In return we can offer you a fantastic development opportunity within a friendly and supportive team, who take pride in delivering a high level of service. In addition, Hampshire County Council offers a comprehensive suite of management training. This is offered alongside a generous benefits package.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Risk Management:
- Undertake and/or support staff in the assessment of risk and apply clinical reasoning in challenging situations. Apply strategies to mitigate risk and identify least restrictive interventions
- Undertake and/or support staff in the assessment, planning and review for safeguarding in high risk cases
- Complete and/or support staff in the completion of functional assessments and reviews that will identify risks, needs, options, and promote well-being and maximise independence
- Manage and/or support staff in high risk cases and/or situations, and ensure occupational therapy interventions are proportionate to need
- Model and support staff with effective workload management skills
- Report concerns and complaints and learn from them in reflective practice
Information, Advice and Advocacy:
- Provide specialist information and advice using a professional understanding in the application of legislation and guidance and ensure the staff and/or services you supervise provide the same
- Provide and ensure the staff and/or services you supervise, provide information and advice to local community networks, that support local empowerment and well-being and maximise independence. This will include implementing new ways of working
- Implement innovative ways of enabling information and advice to be disseminated by other professional colleagues and teams, that address social care needs
- Empower and advocate on behalf of individuals and communities in challenging situations, and enable access to independent advocates when appropriate.
Multidisciplinary Working:
- Actively build and maintain and/or support staff, in building relationships with other professionals, and pursue opportunities to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- Actively Identify cases that will benefit from planned multi-disciplinary working, and/ or an appropriate response to unplanned work.
- Take the lead for high risk multi-disciplinary case work as appropriate, and/or support staff in multi-disciplinary case work
- Adhere and/or support staff to adhere to the protocols to share information with multi-disciplinary teams
Additional Role Responsibilities: Leadership, management and supervision:
- Take responsibility for access to line management, supervision, personal development and performance objectives
- Ensure own line management and supervisory duties are executed
- Model and support staff in achieving the operational priorities for the team
- Encourage and support staff in undertaking new and more challenging work
- Promote team working and collaborative working with others
Capacity Building:
- Actively work with and/or support staff to use the expertise of individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to promote wellbeing and maximise independence
- Actively engage with, and/or support staff to engage with, individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks
- Actively engage with other professionals in providing support to individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks
Professional Practice:
- Demonstrate own, and enable occupational therapists to demonstrate professional practice, and meet the requirements of registration
- Model the occupational therapy role within and outside of the team and support others to do the same.
- Understand the boundaries of own professional practice, and those of other practitioners. Know when to seek support and how to address own learning needs.
- Establish a network of internal and external colleagues with whom you can share expertise and seek advice Promote the development of occupational therapy practice, taking the initiative to test new approaches and contribute to the learning of others.
- Understand the organisational and political context in which you are working and how this impacts on practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Risk Management:
- Undertake and/or support staff in the assessment of risk and apply clinical reasoning in challenging situations. Apply strategies to mitigate risk and identify least restrictive interventions
- Undertake and/or support staff in the assessment, planning and review for safeguarding in high risk cases
- Complete and/or support staff in the completion of functional assessments and reviews that will identify risks, needs, options, and promote well-being and maximise independence
- Manage and/or support staff in high risk cases and/or situations, and ensure occupational therapy interventions are proportionate to need
- Model and support staff with effective workload management skills
- Report concerns and complaints and learn from them in reflective practice
Information, Advice and Advocacy:
- Provide specialist information and advice using a professional understanding in the application of legislation and guidance and ensure the staff and/or services you supervise provide the same
- Provide and ensure the staff and/or services you supervise, provide information and advice to local community networks, that support local empowerment and well-being and maximise independence. This will include implementing new ways of working
- Implement innovative ways of enabling information and advice to be disseminated by other professional colleagues and teams, that address social care needs
- Empower and advocate on behalf of individuals and communities in challenging situations, and enable access to independent advocates when appropriate.
Multidisciplinary Working:
- Actively build and maintain and/or support staff, in building relationships with other professionals, and pursue opportunities to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
- Actively Identify cases that will benefit from planned multi-disciplinary working, and/ or an appropriate response to unplanned work.
- Take the lead for high risk multi-disciplinary case work as appropriate, and/or support staff in multi-disciplinary case work
- Adhere and/or support staff to adhere to the protocols to share information with multi-disciplinary teams
Additional Role Responsibilities: Leadership, management and supervision:
- Take responsibility for access to line management, supervision, personal development and performance objectives
- Ensure own line management and supervisory duties are executed
- Model and support staff in achieving the operational priorities for the team
- Encourage and support staff in undertaking new and more challenging work
- Promote team working and collaborative working with others
Capacity Building:
- Actively work with and/or support staff to use the expertise of individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to promote wellbeing and maximise independence
- Actively engage with, and/or support staff to engage with, individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks
- Actively engage with other professionals in providing support to individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks
Professional Practice:
- Demonstrate own, and enable occupational therapists to demonstrate professional practice, and meet the requirements of registration
- Model the occupational therapy role within and outside of the team and support others to do the same.
- Understand the boundaries of own professional practice, and those of other practitioners. Know when to seek support and how to address own learning needs.
- Establish a network of internal and external colleagues with whom you can share expertise and seek advice Promote the development of occupational therapy practice, taking the initiative to test new approaches and contribute to the learning of others.
- Understand the organisational and political context in which you are working and how this impacts on practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Occupational Therapy qualification and registration with HCPC
- Evidence of post qualification studies
- Enhanced criminal records check
- Occupational therapy practice experience e.g. 2 years
- Ability to identify staff development needs
- Experience with supervision of staff.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively and/or support staff to do the same
- Proactively work with multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to support staff in challenging situations
- Ability to assess risks, needs, analyse information under pressure
- Ability to recognise problems, identify solutions and negotiate in challenging
- situations
- Advanced knowledge in the implementation of LA statutory duties. An innovative
- approach to implementing social care model
- Ability to calculate costs of services and care plans
- Ability to record case and financial information
- Proficient IT skills and recording technology
- Ability to understand best value principles and resource constraints
- Understand equalities issues
- Understand data protection and confidentiality
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Occupational Therapy qualification and registration with HCPC
- Evidence of post qualification studies
- Enhanced criminal records check
- Occupational therapy practice experience e.g. 2 years
- Ability to identify staff development needs
- Experience with supervision of staff.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively and/or support staff to do the same
- Proactively work with multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to support staff in challenging situations
- Ability to assess risks, needs, analyse information under pressure
- Ability to recognise problems, identify solutions and negotiate in challenging
- situations
- Advanced knowledge in the implementation of LA statutory duties. An innovative
- approach to implementing social care model
- Ability to calculate costs of services and care plans
- Ability to record case and financial information
- Proficient IT skills and recording technology
- Ability to understand best value principles and resource constraints
- Understand equalities issues
- Understand data protection and confidentiality
Desirable
Experience
Essential
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.
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).
