Job summary
Are you a Band 6 or Band 7 Occupational Therapist with a passion for improving care for vulnerable and frail patients? Are you eager to be involved in shaping how this care is delivered?
If so, Health First are pleased to be able to offer two Occupational Therapist roles working across TABA PCN covering the areas of Tyldesley, Atherton, Boothstown and Astley within Primary Care. You will be joining an established team of multi-disciplinary ARRS roles.
You will be supported by a wider team of clinicians including Mental Health Practitioners, Physios, Pharmacists, Paramedic, ANP along with GPs, Practice Nurses and the Management and Leadership Team.
This Band 7 post is advertised as full time, but we welcome applicants who require part time working hours.
We are looking for highly motivated, flexible, and enthusiastic occupational therapists with strong leadership skills to join our friendly team.
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- The ability to take a lead role in completing autonomous advanced assessments for vulnerable and frail patients, triage and treatment of acute and chronic presentations for patients with mental health concerns attending primary care.
- Provide an assessment appointment and a maximum of one follow up appointment and utilise local community, charity and secondary care services to provide ongoing support to patients. This will require building close working relationships with other services and being aware of the needs of the local community as well as available resources and services.
- To help patients identify their needs and make shared decisions about management using current evidenced based practice.
- Be able to feedback concisely to GP colleagues with your findings, recommendations and requests for treatment such as medication.
- Have a knowledge of medication to facilitate informed discussions with patients. You will be expected to make suggestions around medication choice following discussion with patients and communicate this with GP colleagues.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- HCPC registered
- Occupational Therapy Qualification and Registration or equivalent.
- Experience working in Adult Mental Health
Completion of the First Contact Practitioner Module is required for the post, you will be supported to develop your primary care skills to succeed on the module.
About us
About TABA Primary Care Network (PCN):
We are 11 practices covering the areas of Tyldesley, Atherton, Boothstown
and Astley within Greater Manchester serving over 53,000 patients. We meet
together monthly as PCN member practice leads and practice managers to discuss
our required developments and plans. Our aim is to provide practices with
additional staff that can support practices and provide better care for our
patients.
Over the next few years, the number of roles is expanding significantly
and we are planning on expanding our currentPCN team further.
We are a group of excellent, well-run and committed practices and hope
that these additions will build on our brilliantpractice teams
Health First CIC are the host employer. The successful applicant will be
employed by Health First CIC but will work for TABA Primary Care Network. A
primary care network (PCN) consists of groups of general practices working
together with a range of local providers, including primary care, community
services, social care and the voluntary sector, to offer more personalised,
coordinated health and social care to their local populations.
TABA PCN Vision
The vision for TABA PCN is to provide a wide range
of services for our patients and colleagues that lead to positive patient
outcomes, alongside reducing the pressure on our
workforce.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
As an experienced Occupational Therapist with a mental health background, you will provide independent, holistic assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting with a range of mental health conditions and frailty. You will be able to work at pace whilst ensuring that assessment is thorough, risk is managed and treatment is collaboratively designed with the patient and carers.
You will also provide professional leadership, support, and advice within the multi-disciplinary team across a range of Primary Care practices. The post holder will:
- Work across the PCN, being flexible to the individual working practice of each surgery.
- Work closely with the Clinical Leads to design and deliver a service tailored to the needs of TABA PCN.
- Provide first contact assessment of patients presenting with mental health difficulties.
- Assess presentation, risk and suitably devise a treatment plan in a time-limited appointment.
- Be able to feedback concisely to GP colleagues with your findings, recommendations and requests for treatment such as medication.
- Have a knowledge of medication to facilitate informed discussions with patients. You will be expected to make suggestions around medication choice following discussion with patients and communicate this with GP colleagues.
- Provide an assessment appointment and a maximum of one follow up appointment and utilise local community, charity and secondary care services to provide ongoing support to patients. This will require building close working relationships with other services and being aware of the needs of the local community as well as available resources and services.
- Be able to safely assess and manage risk and be aware of Safeguarding and local policy and procedure.
- Be visible across the PCN offering face to face and telephone appointments to meet the needs of the patients.
- Work across organisational boundaries, developing new ways of working to promote relationships to increase the quality of patient care and service within primary care.
- Provide a high level of occupational therapy/professional care and treatment to patients through high quality occupational therapy care, assessment, and therapeutic intervention to adults with complex and substantial difficulties as part of a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Work autonomously to undertake advanced practice procedures and promote recovery and wellbeing, maximising independence.
- Facilitate mainstream primary care services for adults with mental health and/or learning difficulties and/or cognitive problems to advise and support agencies with regard to meeting their duty of care.
- Be responsible for disseminating information about good practice and lead on the implementation of good practice that has been developed within the Primary Care Network.
- Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
- Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of clinical services leading on defined projects as agreed with the PCN Management Team and in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Professional Leadership and Development
- To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.
- To adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice at all times.
- To reflect on own practice individually and/or through regular clinical supervision.
- Provide clinical education, training, and evaluation of clinical competence of team and multidisciplinary team staff, providing support and guidance.
- To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.
- To critically evaluate own work through the use of evidence-based projects, audits, and outcome measures.
- To work autonomously as an Occupational Therapist within professional and PCN guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Communication and Relationships
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation, and counselling.
- Be able to provide concise summary of appointments, raise any concerns to appropriate professionals, communicate treatment plan and request additional support or requirements from GP or other Healthcare Professional.
- Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals including de-escalation skills when working in highly antagonistic, hostile, and emotive clinical areas.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise barriers to understanding that can be encountered with those without English as their first language, patients with disabilities and those with mental health difficulties such as anxiety, clinical depression, or personality disorders.
- Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.
- The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in relation to patient care and will have the ability to advise and support others to communicate information in an understandable, empathic, and reassuring way to adults with Mental Health and/or Learning Disabilities and/or Cognitive difficulties and their family and carers.
- Utilise communications in accordance with Caldicott Principles, Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act and Trust Policies and procedures.
See the full job description for further information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
As an experienced Occupational Therapist with a mental health background, you will provide independent, holistic assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting with a range of mental health conditions and frailty. You will be able to work at pace whilst ensuring that assessment is thorough, risk is managed and treatment is collaboratively designed with the patient and carers.
You will also provide professional leadership, support, and advice within the multi-disciplinary team across a range of Primary Care practices. The post holder will:
- Work across the PCN, being flexible to the individual working practice of each surgery.
- Work closely with the Clinical Leads to design and deliver a service tailored to the needs of TABA PCN.
- Provide first contact assessment of patients presenting with mental health difficulties.
- Assess presentation, risk and suitably devise a treatment plan in a time-limited appointment.
- Be able to feedback concisely to GP colleagues with your findings, recommendations and requests for treatment such as medication.
- Have a knowledge of medication to facilitate informed discussions with patients. You will be expected to make suggestions around medication choice following discussion with patients and communicate this with GP colleagues.
- Provide an assessment appointment and a maximum of one follow up appointment and utilise local community, charity and secondary care services to provide ongoing support to patients. This will require building close working relationships with other services and being aware of the needs of the local community as well as available resources and services.
- Be able to safely assess and manage risk and be aware of Safeguarding and local policy and procedure.
- Be visible across the PCN offering face to face and telephone appointments to meet the needs of the patients.
- Work across organisational boundaries, developing new ways of working to promote relationships to increase the quality of patient care and service within primary care.
- Provide a high level of occupational therapy/professional care and treatment to patients through high quality occupational therapy care, assessment, and therapeutic intervention to adults with complex and substantial difficulties as part of a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Work autonomously to undertake advanced practice procedures and promote recovery and wellbeing, maximising independence.
- Facilitate mainstream primary care services for adults with mental health and/or learning difficulties and/or cognitive problems to advise and support agencies with regard to meeting their duty of care.
- Be responsible for disseminating information about good practice and lead on the implementation of good practice that has been developed within the Primary Care Network.
- Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
- Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of clinical services leading on defined projects as agreed with the PCN Management Team and in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Professional Leadership and Development
- To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.
- To adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice at all times.
- To reflect on own practice individually and/or through regular clinical supervision.
- Provide clinical education, training, and evaluation of clinical competence of team and multidisciplinary team staff, providing support and guidance.
- To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.
- To critically evaluate own work through the use of evidence-based projects, audits, and outcome measures.
- To work autonomously as an Occupational Therapist within professional and PCN guidelines, policies, and procedures.
Communication and Relationships
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation, and counselling.
- Be able to provide concise summary of appointments, raise any concerns to appropriate professionals, communicate treatment plan and request additional support or requirements from GP or other Healthcare Professional.
- Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals including de-escalation skills when working in highly antagonistic, hostile, and emotive clinical areas.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise barriers to understanding that can be encountered with those without English as their first language, patients with disabilities and those with mental health difficulties such as anxiety, clinical depression, or personality disorders.
- Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.
- The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in relation to patient care and will have the ability to advise and support others to communicate information in an understandable, empathic, and reassuring way to adults with Mental Health and/or Learning Disabilities and/or Cognitive difficulties and their family and carers.
- Utilise communications in accordance with Caldicott Principles, Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act and Trust Policies and procedures.
See the full job description for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Occupational Therapy qualification HCPC registered occupational therapist.
- Post graduate degree or equivalent qualification or experience.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Safeguarding adults and children training.
Desirable
- A teaching qualification (e.g. ENB 998/P126/127) or a proven track record in occupational therapy education is desirable but not essential
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role. Please provide examples to support your application referring to the essential criteria in person specification attached.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working with GP practices
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role. Please provide examples to support your application referring to the essential criteria in person specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Occupational Therapy qualification HCPC registered occupational therapist.
- Post graduate degree or equivalent qualification or experience.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Safeguarding adults and children training.
Desirable
- A teaching qualification (e.g. ENB 998/P126/127) or a proven track record in occupational therapy education is desirable but not essential
Experience
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role. Please provide examples to support your application referring to the essential criteria in person specification attached.
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working with GP practices
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role. Please provide examples to support your application referring to the essential criteria in person specification attached.
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).