Job summary
This an exciting opportunity to continue developing your expert Occupational Therapy clinic skills in the field of community neuro-rehabilitation and to lead the Occupational Therapy service provision within a well established community neuro rehabilitation team in Ealing Borough.
We will support the post holder to lead and further develop our vocational rehabilitation pathway for patients with neurological conditions, and develop spasticity management skills and postural management pathways in conjunction with the ACP physiotherapist in the service.
The post holder will hold a clinical caseload of complex patients and support the occupational therapists in the team to develop their skills and competencies in neurological rehabilitation.
The post holder will lead in the service's participation in national audits and work with the Service Lead to evaluate the Occupational therapy service provision.
This opportunity has arisen through secondment of the existing post-holder until April 2024.
Main duties of the job
This post holder will lead the Occupational therapy provision within the Enable team, and act as appoint of expertise in community neuro rehab and vocational rehab for other Occupational Therapists within Ealing Community Partners. The post holder will provide expert Occupational Therapy input to patients, and triaging expertise for patients who are referred to the Enable team. This includes holistic assessments of patients and provision of evidence based neurological rehabilitation, long term management and vocational rehabilitation therapy to patients in both individual and group formats. This post holder provides clinical leadership and supports development of the Occupational therapy staff, assistants and students in the team. This post holder will work with the Occupational Therapists, physiotherapy, Speech therapy and clinical psychology leads and the service manager to ensure the efficacy of the team in working towards our service aims. The post holder will continue to develop the vocational rehab pathway and evaluate the efficacy of this and other pathways within the service.
The post holder will need to apply enhanced knowledge of neurological rehab and be confident when representing the service and at multiple forums.
About us
The Trust is committed to ensuring that you achieve a good work/life balance, have access to a wide range of support including flexible working options, childcare support and many training and development opportunities.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for a clinical caseload working within the multi-disciplinary team. When completing direct clinical work, to work with complex cases, acting as a role model for excellence in care provision, using advanced clinical judgement and decision making.
- To act as a point of expertise in community occupational therapy for clinical Occupational therapists within Ealing Community Partners especially neuro rehabilitation, providing clinical support to Senior Occupational Therapists as necessary.
- To carry out cross professional assessments for patients with complex needs and discuss outcomes with multidisciplinary team members.
- To develop and ensure delivery of, the Ealing Vocational rehabilitation pathway for patients with neurological impairment and work with other colleague and teams to ensure consistent approach across Ealing Community partners, establishing pathways for further services across North West London.
- To lead on the management of patients with complex progressive neurological conditions including spasticity management, postural and seating management, working across professional boundaries to ensure holistic care and effective Multi-disciplinary working for effective anticipatory care.
- To keep accurate up-to-date records on patient care and equipment provision, which comply with quality standards of Trust/Professional/Service policies, meet legal requirements and that can be shared with colleagues and carers when appropriate.
- To provide written and/or verbal reports to referrers and other agencies involved in clients care and participate in clinical meetings as necessary.
- To monitor Occupational Therapy caseloads in the service, recording statistics and prioritising referrals as required.
- Lead clinical innovation, using research evidence based practice and clinical networks.
- Oversee and support Occupational therapy staff to develop robust risk management place to support individuals independence and daily living within their home setting.
- To monitor the effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice.
- To contribute to the development of information that enables clients to understand and self-manage their condition whenever possible.
- Work within the organisations framework of informed consent
- To attend and represent Enable at equipment contract meetings and oversee specialist OT sign off approval for equipment.
- To identify priorities by effective time management, prioritisation, ensuring team governance agenda, performance indicators, safety, risk, incident management, care delivery is managed in a proactive and timely.
- Manage Occupational Therapist performance with the Service Lead. Address queries / concerns / complaints from service users, partner agencies and other team members regarding Occupational Therapy input, ensuring that feedback to others is positive and meaningful and that strengths are clearly acknowledged.
- Be an exemplary role model working within the core Trust values and applying SCARF principals in all interactions with people
- To display visible management and leadership skills to the integrated community team.
- To support and lead on all OT clinical development work across the Enable team, contributing to developments in other teams such as the Falls Prevention Service
- To provide leadership and support with all OT recruitment in other teams, including interview, formulation of questions, scenarios as the Clinical Band 8A OT in Ealing community Partners.
- To support the induction, training, appraisals and probationary reviews of new Band 7 Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Psychologist.
- With expertise in Occupational Therapy the post holder will provide clinical supervision for the Band 7 Occupational Therapist in the Enable service and wider neurological rehabilitation services as required.
- Be a professional point of contact for Occupational Therapy support and advice for other community teams.
- To lead on equipment provision issues for the Enable and Falls Service, liaising with private equipment contractors and Contract Leads. Representing service users and team members concerns and priorities.
- To attend any Occupational Therapy (OT) leaders forums and disseminate, trust, national, regional and integrated community service level information back to the OTs
- To represent the role of OT at neighbourhood hubs as part of specialist multi-agency working, wider multi-disciplinary meetings or forums.
- To facilitate and participate in Trust-wide groups and partner agency forums as required to establish, develop and maintain collaborative and productive integrated partnerships with individuals and agencies working in the field of the community
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for a clinical caseload working within the multi-disciplinary team. When completing direct clinical work, to work with complex cases, acting as a role model for excellence in care provision, using advanced clinical judgement and decision making.
- To act as a point of expertise in community occupational therapy for clinical Occupational therapists within Ealing Community Partners especially neuro rehabilitation, providing clinical support to Senior Occupational Therapists as necessary.
- To carry out cross professional assessments for patients with complex needs and discuss outcomes with multidisciplinary team members.
- To develop and ensure delivery of, the Ealing Vocational rehabilitation pathway for patients with neurological impairment and work with other colleague and teams to ensure consistent approach across Ealing Community partners, establishing pathways for further services across North West London.
- To lead on the management of patients with complex progressive neurological conditions including spasticity management, postural and seating management, working across professional boundaries to ensure holistic care and effective Multi-disciplinary working for effective anticipatory care.
- To keep accurate up-to-date records on patient care and equipment provision, which comply with quality standards of Trust/Professional/Service policies, meet legal requirements and that can be shared with colleagues and carers when appropriate.
- To provide written and/or verbal reports to referrers and other agencies involved in clients care and participate in clinical meetings as necessary.
- To monitor Occupational Therapy caseloads in the service, recording statistics and prioritising referrals as required.
- Lead clinical innovation, using research evidence based practice and clinical networks.
- Oversee and support Occupational therapy staff to develop robust risk management place to support individuals independence and daily living within their home setting.
- To monitor the effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice.
- To contribute to the development of information that enables clients to understand and self-manage their condition whenever possible.
- Work within the organisations framework of informed consent
- To attend and represent Enable at equipment contract meetings and oversee specialist OT sign off approval for equipment.
- To identify priorities by effective time management, prioritisation, ensuring team governance agenda, performance indicators, safety, risk, incident management, care delivery is managed in a proactive and timely.
- Manage Occupational Therapist performance with the Service Lead. Address queries / concerns / complaints from service users, partner agencies and other team members regarding Occupational Therapy input, ensuring that feedback to others is positive and meaningful and that strengths are clearly acknowledged.
- Be an exemplary role model working within the core Trust values and applying SCARF principals in all interactions with people
- To display visible management and leadership skills to the integrated community team.
- To support and lead on all OT clinical development work across the Enable team, contributing to developments in other teams such as the Falls Prevention Service
- To provide leadership and support with all OT recruitment in other teams, including interview, formulation of questions, scenarios as the Clinical Band 8A OT in Ealing community Partners.
- To support the induction, training, appraisals and probationary reviews of new Band 7 Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Psychologist.
- With expertise in Occupational Therapy the post holder will provide clinical supervision for the Band 7 Occupational Therapist in the Enable service and wider neurological rehabilitation services as required.
- Be a professional point of contact for Occupational Therapy support and advice for other community teams.
- To lead on equipment provision issues for the Enable and Falls Service, liaising with private equipment contractors and Contract Leads. Representing service users and team members concerns and priorities.
- To attend any Occupational Therapy (OT) leaders forums and disseminate, trust, national, regional and integrated community service level information back to the OTs
- To represent the role of OT at neighbourhood hubs as part of specialist multi-agency working, wider multi-disciplinary meetings or forums.
- To facilitate and participate in Trust-wide groups and partner agency forums as required to establish, develop and maintain collaborative and productive integrated partnerships with individuals and agencies working in the field of the community
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified OT
- HCPC Membership
- Post registraiton CPD to MSC or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of Experience in NHS neuro rehab at senior level
- Evidence of working in MDT teams
- Experience complex neuro assessments
- Cross professional working
- Vocational rehab experience
- Spasticity and postural management experience
Skills
Essential
- Working with complex patients
- Long Term Neurological conditions
- Advanced communication skills
- IT skills
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified OT
- HCPC Membership
- Post registraiton CPD to MSC or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of Experience in NHS neuro rehab at senior level
- Evidence of working in MDT teams
- Experience complex neuro assessments
- Cross professional working
- Vocational rehab experience
- Spasticity and postural management experience
Skills
Essential
- Working with complex patients
- Long Term Neurological conditions
- Advanced communication skills
- IT skills
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.
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
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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).
