Job responsibilities
To
work within the Occupational Therapy Service, leading coordinating and
developing effective intervention in a specialist area.
To
manage autonomously a clinical workload at a highly specialist level:
assessing and treating patients and maintaining associated records.
To
adopt a key role in clinical risk assessment and discharge planning
Team
Responsibilities
1. To manage, supervise and support
Occupational Therapists, Support Staff and Students
2. To represent Occupational Therapy on
working parties and multi-agency meetings
3. To act as a resource of clinical
expertise and advice within the clinical specialty
for colleagues, patients and carers
4. To be responsible for routine
organisation and maintenance of the department/section
5. To initiate, lead and contribute to
service development
6. To support the team in meeting local
and government targets
7. To lead and participate in projects
8. To lead and participate in in-service
training
9. To initiate, promote and implement
changes to policies, procedures and practices within the clinical area as
identified in team plan
10. To be responsible for financial and
physical resources, for example, the use of equipment store systems such as
Leeds Equipment Service, petty cash
11. To be responsible for checking and
cleaning equipment in line with Trust and service Health and Safety Policies
Professional
Responsibilities
1. To support Trust objectives and
business plan
2. To lead and promote Service
objectives and business plan
3. Specialist knowledge of Modernisation
Agenda/Government Initiatives
4. To ensure clinical governance,
quality assurance and professional standards are adhered to.
5. Membership of COT specialist section
relevant to post
6. Awareness of COT initiatives
7. To initiate, promote and lead changes
to policies, procedures and practice within the clinical speciality which may
impact on other disciplines.
Core
Values
1. Listening to patients and carers in
order to understand their needs, values, interests and aspirations.
2. Promoting personal identity and
empowerment by giving information and choices to patients.
3. Working together in a supportive
environment that values the contribution and proactivity of every team
member.
4. Respecting each persons
individuality, and treating others with the highest degree of dignity and
equality.
5. Welcoming social and cultural
diversity in patients, within teams and other colleagues.
6. Delivering high quality and equitable
services for all service users.
7. Committing to the provision of the
best practice underpinned by a sound evidence base.
8. Embracing personal learning
experiences.
Core
Behaviours and Skills
To
a highly specialist level:
1. Communication Skills - Written and
Verbal Skill
2. Computer skills
3. Ability to maintain clear lines of
appropriate communication
4. Ability to work as part of a Team (OT
and MDT)
5. Interpersonal Skills
6. Problem-Solving Skills
7. Clinical Reasoning
8. Analytical Skills
9. Investigative Skills
10. Presentation Skills
11. Facilitation Skills
12. Coaching Skills
13. Time Management and ability to
prioritise
14. Ability to Delegate
15. Ability to motivate others
16. Effective Supervision
17. Ability to work within flexible hours
18. Ability to initiate and take
responsibility for personal development
19. Ability to ensure that others take
responsibility for their personal development
20. Links with relevant specialist section
and other networks
21. Ability to work in a changing
environment
22. Negotiation within limitations of
service
23. Ability to work under pressure
24. Assertiveness Skills
25. Ability to move and handle patients
26. Complex discharge planning
27. Ability to promote Occupational Therapy
28. Adaptability
29. Initiative
30. Empathy and Sensitivity
31. Ability to influence and persuade
32. Patient-focused
33. Strive to empower
34. Ability to maintain confidentiality
35. Ability to promote and practice
clinical governance
36. Involvement in relevant specialist
groups and networks.
Core
Knowledge and Understanding
To
a highly specialist level:
1. Occupational Therapy process - screen
referrals, assess and plan treatment programmes, implement and evaluate
treatment programmes, monitor and plan discharge
2. Assess motor, perceptual, cognitive,
emotional and psycho-social components of occupational performance.
3. Apply relevant theory and models of
Occupational Therapy
4. Awareness of Risk Assessment and
Management
5. Complex Home visits
6. Diversity Awareness
7. Current relevant legislation
8. Relevant national and professional
guidelines, standards and frameworks
9. Relevant clinical conditions and
prognosis
10. Specialised treatment techniques
11. Relevant standardised assessment
12. Provision and fitting of adaptive
equipment
Principal
Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Clinical
1. To accept clinical responsibility for
a designated caseload of patients and to identify patients who can be
delegated to others.
2. To support with the general caseload
in the team as service needs dictate.
3. To deliver a service using the
Occupational Therapy process (screen referrals, assess and plan treatment
programmes, implement and evaluate treatment programmes, monitor and plan
discharge) and core skills.
4. To establish capacity, gain valid
informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with
patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
5. To assess individual patients, plan
and carry out effective Occupational Therapy intervention to a highly
specialist level, in the most appropriate environment taking into account
each patients individual physical, social and emotional needs.
6. To research evidence and lead in
evidence based practice.
7. To work autonomously, with mostly
indirect supervision.
8. To interpret and analyse at an
advanced level clinical and non-clinical information across a range of
conditions.
9. To use advanced investigative and
analytical skills regarding patients and services.
10. To use clinical reasoning, critical
thinking and analysis to develop individual goals and interventions which
optimise functional ability.
11. To plan and prioritise clinical work.
12. To delegate work to support staff and
obtain feedback from delegated tasks.
13. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal
communication tools/strategies to communicate complex information effectively
to patients/carers. This may include patients/ carers who may have
difficulties in understanding or communicating.
The
information may relate to prognosis and rehabilitation outcome.
14. To utilise strategies of persuasion and
motivation to encourage patients to engage in intervention.
15. To adopt a key role in discharge
management, communicating complex information and acting as an advocate for
patient/carers.
All
recommendations should focus on occupational performance and risk management
in the patients own environment.
16. To refer to internal and external
agencies relevant to the patients needs using designated referral systems.
17. To liaise with and work in
collaboration with internal and external agencies.
18. To act as a specialist resource for
information and support to patients, carers and others.
19. To ensure safe use of equipment by self
and others.
20. To be able to work stressful
environment.
21. To be able to impart difficult and
unwelcome information regarding rehabilitation outcomes and support services.
22. To be able to deal effectively with
emotional and/or aggressive patients/carers and to assist and support
colleagues in similar circumstances.
23. To participate in ward rounds, case
conferences and meetings as required.
24. To record interventions accurately and
timely using team/trust documentation complying with Occupational Therapy
guidelines and legislative requirements.
25. To complete activity data using
team/trust documentation and outcome measures.
26. To provide written reports complying
with Occupational Therapy guidelines and legislative requirements.
27. To promote Occupational Therapy as a
treatment medium and ensure high Occupational Therapy profile.
28. To lead and participate in clinical
governance and quality assurance programmes to ensure the delivery of a high
quality and evidence based service.
29. To lead and participate in the
measurement and evaluation of work and current practices through the use of
audit and outcome measures, either individually or as part of a clinical
team.
30. To initiate, lead and participate in
specialist research.
31. To initiate, lead and promote changes
to policies, procedures and practices within the specialist clinical area
which may impact on other disciplines.
Education
Training
1. To take responsibility in agreement
with line manager for personal development by ensuring that Continuing
Professional Development remains a priority.
2. To provide evidence of personal
development to post graduate/masters degree level or equivalent
3. To undertake all mandatory training
required for the role.
4. To lead and participate in in-service
training and coaching colleagues, ensuring the sharing of information and
reflection on learning experiences.
5. To undertake fieldwork education
Leadership
1. To participate in supervision and the
appraisal process, as an appraiser and appraisee, in line with Occupational
Therapy and Trust Guidelines.
2. To manage, supervise and support
designated Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy support staff.
3. To participate in the recruitment and
retention of staff.
4. To deal with grievance and
disciplinary matters in the initial stages with support of the Head
Occupational Therapist.
