Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to provide a new model of care across Plymouth, through the establishment of the Inclusion Health Service.
In line with current best practice this service is being developed using the “Pathway” approach, providing ‘end to end’ support for individuals who are homeless. It involves not only medical staff, but a range of multidisciplinary professionals with expertise in social care, housing law and benefits issues, ensuring that a person’s full range of needs are supported. More information about the "Pathway" approach can be found here www.pathway.org.uk
The aim of the Inclusion Health service is:
- To create a comprehensive service, for adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
The Service will:
- Prevent more entrenched and longer-term homelessness.
- Contribute towards improving outcomes and addressing health inequalities for some of the most disadvantaged individuals in Plymouth.
- Achieve truly joined up and effective care for this most vulnerable group of individuals and ensure engagement and completion of treatment wherever possible.
Main duties of the job
- To develop and oversee the provision of an evidence-based occupational therapy service for adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessment, formulation, and interventions to adults with high levels of complexity and vulnerabilities.
- To provide specialist advice, supervision, case discussion & formulation to staff supporting adults who have a diagnosis of a severe and enduring mental health issue.
- To provide specialist occupational therapy input to planning, development and evaluation of clinical services within the mental health services, holding responsibility for defined projects.
- To support robust risk assessment and management, offering specialist plans and intervention which support individuals within the community setting.
- To promote inclusion, awareness of occupational performance issues and onward support.
- All team members are expected to work collaboratively and supportively with each other across Primary, Secondary Care and Community care boundaries to improve outcomes for people who are homeless.
- They should also work to the Pathway model (with flexibility as required), to attend team handover and MDT meetings, and to be present to take referrals, and undertake assessments and ward rounds where needed.
About us
This service will be delivered through an exciting and innovative partnership approach with collaboration from organisations such as Livewell Southwest CIC, Adelaide and St Levan Surgery, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and the Plymouth Alliance.
Livewell Southwest is a recognised provider of integrated health and social care services operating across South Hams, West Devon and Plymouth www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk
Adelaide and St Levan Surgery is a GP practice in the most deprived area of Plymouth, supporting many adults with complex needs. www.stlevansurgery.nhs.uk
The Plymouth Alliance was formed with a group of local charities / community organisations with leadership from Plymouth City Council to provide services to people with complex needs (homelessness, drug or alcohol misuse, mental illness and offending).
Our Plymouth health and care system requires and features strong and effective collaboration.
This role will be employed by one of these partner organisations.
Leadership
For the right candidate this is one of
the roles in the new team that could incorporate the Operational Lead
management/team leader responsibilities. Thus, banding could be increased
accordingly. Please indicate your interest and experience within your
application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure that the professional standards and ethics as set out by Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) and Health Professions Council (HCPC) are adhered to at all times.
- To ensure patient/group treatment programs are monitored, evaluated and modified as required on a regular and systematic basis to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
- To ensure the safety needs of the service users are met at all times and take appropriate action when individuals are felt to be at risk.
- To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources.
- To formulate plans for highly specialist intervention relating to any identified occupational difficulties supporting the overall wellbeing and risk.
- To be responsible for assessing, planning and implementing, monitoring and evaluating patient centred individual and/or group interventions. Using specialised occupational therapy assessments and approaches. Using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
- To provide specialist advice, supervision, case discussion & formulation to staff and carers.
- To develop individual therapeutic programs, working with the patient, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Using patient centred principles to ensure the patient is as fully involved as possible and be responsible for coordinating care where appropriate.
- To support robust risk assessment and management offering specialist occupational therapy plans.
- To make autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by contributing to research and development activities relevant to the service area.
- To work with autonomous professional judgement, together with other multidisciplinary professionals, to offer assessments, formulations and treatment recommendations that consider the individual and their context.
- To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning and delivery.
- To contribute to the formulation and review of the team policies and protocols as directed.
- To act as a mentor to students and newly qualified staff.
- To use IT systems effectively.
- To maintain accurate and up-to-date clinical records in accordance with organisation policy.
- To delegate tasks to staff within their competency and ensure that the delegation/escalation process forms part of the culture of the service.
- Developing a new model of OT focused service delivery.
- To carry a caseload of patients.
Working as part of a Team
- To contribute to the development of the ‘Pathway’ services within the community, individuals, and self to enhance performance.
- To listen and be open to the views of others.
- To suggest and critically explore new concepts without prejudice or assumption.
- To effectively communicate with other disciplines/agencies/patients and carers.
- To maintain professional relationships with all colleagues to ensure professional standards are met.
- To actively participate in the appraisal process.
- To work flexibly and dynamically to support the team manager in developing staff and teams, and creating a positive culture within the workplace.
- Working to promote and improve resilience within the team.
- As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to provide leadership, expert clinical opinion and represent the manager at senior level meetings.
- Support and attend clinical risk and professional meetings on behalf of the management team.
Managing Self
- To participate in regular supervision.
- To attend all mandatory training.
- To participate annually in, developing and agreeing your own development plan with your line manager.
- To comply with all policies, procedures, and protocols.
- To seek advice and support from the Team Manager whenever necessary.
- To demonstrate an understanding of the need for flexible responses to mental health crises.
- To respond to regulatory and professional climate.
- To plan and manage own time to meet the demands of the workload.
- To observe all health and safety at work policies.
- To display flexibility in line with changes in service delivery.
Staff Supervision and Support
- To contribute to the multi-disciplinary staff meetings, professional debates and seminars, discussing clinical work, sharing knowledge and experiences and participating in training.
- Create, maintain and enhance effective working relationships and networks with colleagues within and external to the Inclusion Health service.
- To contribute to effective communication and working relationships with others.
- To be part of the leadership team, developing staff, team culture and working dynamically and flexibly to drive forward team goals.
- To ensure that CQC standards are met within the team. Supporting the manager to achieve these.
- To identify training needs within the team.
- To actively participate in induction new staff into the team.
Values
- Empathy and compassion – providing care for patients that is rooted in the patient’s priorities.
- Collective responsibility – all team members take responsibility for patients and the team’s success, work collaboratively, and support each other.
- Creative persistence – team members tackle complicated problems together, seek practical solutions, and ‘never give up’.
- Challenging discrimination and poor practice – teams support the delivery of equitable health care, challenging poor attitudes, behaviours and practices.
- Inclusive approach to healthcare – teams subscribe to Pathway’s belief that everything about a person’s situation affects their health – not just their medical conditions.
- Promoting autonomy – patient empowerment and individual agency.
- Relationship builders and influencers – form strong networks within and outside of the hospital and influence the behaviour of different stakeholders across those networks including by teaching, training and inspiring others.
- Constantly improving – seeking new opportunities and ways to improve their service, its resilience, and the support it gives to, and receives from, others.
- Trauma-informed – the culture of the whole system, including all work practices and settings reflects a trauma-informed approach.
Additional Information
As a new service we are keen for the successful applicant to bring their expertise and experience to help shape and define the job role and the Health Inclusion Service. Equally, as this new service launches and evolves it may be necessary to review job responsibilities. Therefore, at this stage this is a draft job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure that the professional standards and ethics as set out by Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) and Health Professions Council (HCPC) are adhered to at all times.
- To ensure patient/group treatment programs are monitored, evaluated and modified as required on a regular and systematic basis to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
- To ensure the safety needs of the service users are met at all times and take appropriate action when individuals are felt to be at risk.
- To provide highly specialist occupational therapy assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources.
- To formulate plans for highly specialist intervention relating to any identified occupational difficulties supporting the overall wellbeing and risk.
- To be responsible for assessing, planning and implementing, monitoring and evaluating patient centred individual and/or group interventions. Using specialised occupational therapy assessments and approaches. Using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
- To provide specialist advice, supervision, case discussion & formulation to staff and carers.
- To develop individual therapeutic programs, working with the patient, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Using patient centred principles to ensure the patient is as fully involved as possible and be responsible for coordinating care where appropriate.
- To support robust risk assessment and management offering specialist occupational therapy plans.
- To make autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by contributing to research and development activities relevant to the service area.
- To work with autonomous professional judgement, together with other multidisciplinary professionals, to offer assessments, formulations and treatment recommendations that consider the individual and their context.
- To actively promote user/carer involvement in all aspects of care planning and delivery.
- To contribute to the formulation and review of the team policies and protocols as directed.
- To act as a mentor to students and newly qualified staff.
- To use IT systems effectively.
- To maintain accurate and up-to-date clinical records in accordance with organisation policy.
- To delegate tasks to staff within their competency and ensure that the delegation/escalation process forms part of the culture of the service.
- Developing a new model of OT focused service delivery.
- To carry a caseload of patients.
Working as part of a Team
- To contribute to the development of the ‘Pathway’ services within the community, individuals, and self to enhance performance.
- To listen and be open to the views of others.
- To suggest and critically explore new concepts without prejudice or assumption.
- To effectively communicate with other disciplines/agencies/patients and carers.
- To maintain professional relationships with all colleagues to ensure professional standards are met.
- To actively participate in the appraisal process.
- To work flexibly and dynamically to support the team manager in developing staff and teams, and creating a positive culture within the workplace.
- Working to promote and improve resilience within the team.
- As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to provide leadership, expert clinical opinion and represent the manager at senior level meetings.
- Support and attend clinical risk and professional meetings on behalf of the management team.
Managing Self
- To participate in regular supervision.
- To attend all mandatory training.
- To participate annually in, developing and agreeing your own development plan with your line manager.
- To comply with all policies, procedures, and protocols.
- To seek advice and support from the Team Manager whenever necessary.
- To demonstrate an understanding of the need for flexible responses to mental health crises.
- To respond to regulatory and professional climate.
- To plan and manage own time to meet the demands of the workload.
- To observe all health and safety at work policies.
- To display flexibility in line with changes in service delivery.
Staff Supervision and Support
- To contribute to the multi-disciplinary staff meetings, professional debates and seminars, discussing clinical work, sharing knowledge and experiences and participating in training.
- Create, maintain and enhance effective working relationships and networks with colleagues within and external to the Inclusion Health service.
- To contribute to effective communication and working relationships with others.
- To be part of the leadership team, developing staff, team culture and working dynamically and flexibly to drive forward team goals.
- To ensure that CQC standards are met within the team. Supporting the manager to achieve these.
- To identify training needs within the team.
- To actively participate in induction new staff into the team.
Values
- Empathy and compassion – providing care for patients that is rooted in the patient’s priorities.
- Collective responsibility – all team members take responsibility for patients and the team’s success, work collaboratively, and support each other.
- Creative persistence – team members tackle complicated problems together, seek practical solutions, and ‘never give up’.
- Challenging discrimination and poor practice – teams support the delivery of equitable health care, challenging poor attitudes, behaviours and practices.
- Inclusive approach to healthcare – teams subscribe to Pathway’s belief that everything about a person’s situation affects their health – not just their medical conditions.
- Promoting autonomy – patient empowerment and individual agency.
- Relationship builders and influencers – form strong networks within and outside of the hospital and influence the behaviour of different stakeholders across those networks including by teaching, training and inspiring others.
- Constantly improving – seeking new opportunities and ways to improve their service, its resilience, and the support it gives to, and receives from, others.
- Trauma-informed – the culture of the whole system, including all work practices and settings reflects a trauma-informed approach.
Additional Information
As a new service we are keen for the successful applicant to bring their expertise and experience to help shape and define the job role and the Health Inclusion Service. Equally, as this new service launches and evolves it may be necessary to review job responsibilities. Therefore, at this stage this is a draft job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Post graduate qualified, with significant experience as an Occupational Therapist, working at a similar level, specialising within mental health services for adults with complex needs.
- Clear indication of an interest in and passion for work with adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Service / practice innovation.
- Able to demonstrate a strong professional identity and maintain the profile of occupational therapy within a multidisciplinary setting
- Highly developed occupational therapy skills.
- Well established knowledge of a broad range of occupational therapy clinical assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group - such as Model of Human Occupation,
- In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate occupational therapy interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare relative benefits.
- Able to communicate and negotiate effectively with staff at all levels.
- Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
- Able to work autonomously.
- Effective presentation and training skills.
- Able to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
- Able to work under pressure and set priorities.
- Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
- Computer literacy.
- Commitment to patient centred non-discriminatory practice.
- Requirement to train and participate in breakaway training.
- Commitment to lifelong learning.
- Willingness to be flexible.
- Health, safety and risk awareness.
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) or equivalent Occupational Therapy qualification.
- State Registered Occupational Therapist with Health and Care. Professions Council Registration.
- Evidence of post-graduate training in mental health.
- Specialist working knowledge and application of current best practice and recent government policies and the impact of these on occupational therapy practice with adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Understanding and clinical application of occupational therapy models of practice including Model of Human Occupation.
- Applied knowledge of relevant policy and changes within wider NHS relevant to mental health.
- Demonstrated application of risk assessment and management in clinical practice.
- Ability to resolve professional / ethical issues.
- Working knowledge and application of clinical governance.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Post graduate qualified, with significant experience as an Occupational Therapist, working at a similar level, specialising within mental health services for adults with complex needs.
- Clear indication of an interest in and passion for work with adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Service / practice innovation.
- Able to demonstrate a strong professional identity and maintain the profile of occupational therapy within a multidisciplinary setting
- Highly developed occupational therapy skills.
- Well established knowledge of a broad range of occupational therapy clinical assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group - such as Model of Human Occupation,
- In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate occupational therapy interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare relative benefits.
- Able to communicate and negotiate effectively with staff at all levels.
- Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
- Able to work autonomously.
- Effective presentation and training skills.
- Able to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
- Able to work under pressure and set priorities.
- Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
- Computer literacy.
- Commitment to patient centred non-discriminatory practice.
- Requirement to train and participate in breakaway training.
- Commitment to lifelong learning.
- Willingness to be flexible.
- Health, safety and risk awareness.
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) or equivalent Occupational Therapy qualification.
- State Registered Occupational Therapist with Health and Care. Professions Council Registration.
- Evidence of post-graduate training in mental health.
- Specialist working knowledge and application of current best practice and recent government policies and the impact of these on occupational therapy practice with adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Understanding and clinical application of occupational therapy models of practice including Model of Human Occupation.
- Applied knowledge of relevant policy and changes within wider NHS relevant to mental health.
- Demonstrated application of risk assessment and management in clinical practice.
- Ability to resolve professional / ethical issues.
- Working knowledge and application of clinical governance.
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
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).