Job summary
Longmoor House is a 69 bedded rehab unit for integrated care patients. The post holder will work autonomously and as an active team player within the wider MDT.
The role is to provide OT assessments, identifying and addressing Occupational performance and skill deficits for patients with a wide range of conditions and co-morbidities.
The therapy team on the unit operates with patient centred principles at their core, adopting a rehabilitative frame of reference. Outcome measures and evidence based practice are integral to the service delivery.
The majority of the post holder's work will be unit based. However, where clinically indicated assessments can take place within the patients own home environment.
Occupational Therapy interventions at Longmoor House, are provided on an individual basis and also through group work, according to need and the individual goals of the patients.
Main duties of the job
There is a requirement for the post holder to work autonomously in the assessment, planning and implementation of Occupational Therapy interventions for individuals and groups. The post holder will use of selected and graded activities to address identified areas of deficit and to develop skills.
The post holder will manage their own caseload of patients, maintaining effective patient documentation. In addition, they will be expected to produce comprehensive reports and complete appropriate referrals to alternative service providers.
The postholder is expected to liaise and develop effective working relationships with the wider MDT. There is an active role in ensuring effective care coordination and discharge planning for their caseload.
Caseload prioritisation is integral part of the post, following local operating procedures.
The postholder will be required to actively participate in their own clinical supervision and identify their own training needs.
Induction and supervision of junior staff will also be a requirement of this post. The undertaking of the practice educators role for OT students and Apprentices will be a requirement of the post holder, training & support will be provided.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties1. To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plansindividualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey frominitial assessment through to discharge.2. To gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey,enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.3. To prioritise designated Occupational Therapy referrals according to need, risk andservice capacity.4. To plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, usinggraded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficultieswithin ward/rehab hub setting.5. To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress andensure effectiveness of intervention.6. To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training andadvice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patients social and physicalenvironment.7. To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.8. To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members withregards to their caseloads and working practices.9. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed needof the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plansdeveloped for service users by all sector members to ensure that they areappropriate and of a high standard.10. To liaise with family members, carers, GPs and other professionals as necessarywhen completing the assessment and developing a care plan.11. To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regardingtheir care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly,referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.12. To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people areaware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately. To monitor andwork with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriatelyand that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment,being able to assess risk and complete management plans.13. To lead the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care of thesector you have responsibility for.14. Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of OccupationalTherapy activities and comply with The Royal College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance ofpromoting these in line with organisational public health policy.15. To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users bysupervision of sector members caseloads and via audit.16. To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations whereservice users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained fromexperience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possiblyhospital admission.17. To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who become anxious,hostile or distressed.18. To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents andliaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidentsare implemented.19. To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs aremet and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinicaldecisions.20. To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimumlevel of health and independence to help them to remain in the community in theirchosen setting or return to this on discharge.21. To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties1. To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plansindividualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey frominitial assessment through to discharge.2. To gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey,enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.3. To prioritise designated Occupational Therapy referrals according to need, risk andservice capacity.4. To plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, usinggraded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficultieswithin ward/rehab hub setting.5. To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress andensure effectiveness of intervention.6. To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training andadvice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patients social and physicalenvironment.7. To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.8. To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members withregards to their caseloads and working practices.9. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed needof the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plansdeveloped for service users by all sector members to ensure that they areappropriate and of a high standard.10. To liaise with family members, carers, GPs and other professionals as necessarywhen completing the assessment and developing a care plan.11. To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regardingtheir care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly,referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.12. To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people areaware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately. To monitor andwork with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriatelyand that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment,being able to assess risk and complete management plans.13. To lead the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care of thesector you have responsibility for.14. Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of OccupationalTherapy activities and comply with The Royal College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance ofpromoting these in line with organisational public health policy.15. To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users bysupervision of sector members caseloads and via audit.16. To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations whereservice users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained fromexperience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possiblyhospital admission.17. To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who become anxious,hostile or distressed.18. To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents andliaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidentsare implemented.19. To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs aremet and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinicaldecisions.20. To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimumlevel of health and independence to help them to remain in the community in theirchosen setting or return to this on discharge.21. To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Occupational Therapist with the Health Professions Council
- Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Teaching / Mentorship qualification or equivalent work-based experience
Desirable
- Membership of professional body
- Practice placement education Qualification
- Evidence of post Registration study in a field relevant to post
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of OT functional assessment including activity analysis
- Experience of successful team working
- Experience of liaison with internal and external services and agencies
- Knowledge and ability to express an understanding of Occupational Therapy
- Process including activity and task analysis and the formulation of intervention plans grounded in clinical reasoning
- General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- Have an understanding of clinical and environmental risk assessment
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable
- Experience of service development audit and research practice relevant to the clinical area
- Experience of planning and facilitating therapeutic groups for patients/ clients
- Experience of service development
- Experience of being involved in clinical audit and/or research
- Familiar with Electronic Patient Records
- Management and clinical leadership
- A basic understanding of relevant legislation including The Mental Capacity Act
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Up to date knowledge and application of current best Practice in Occupational Therapy relevant Area of Practice
- Application of Occupational Therapy Outcome measures and Models of practice
- Application of the process of standard setting, audit, evaluation and review
- A sound knowledge of the core skills of Occupational Therapy and their application in this field
- Be able to communicate effectively with service users within the specific client group
- Have good listening skills
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Health Profession Councils standards of Proficiency and Occupational therapists responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
- Demonstrate knowledge the concepts of mentorship, and supervision. Evidence active participation supervision and the appraisal process
- Experience of Group and Individual interventions with the specific client group
- Experience working in a collaborative way with MDT and service users/carers
- Good time management skills
- Apply and promote OT skills, to include carrying out occupational assessments, setting clear occupational goals and facilitating a wide variety of therapeutic interventions via the provision of meaningful activities
- Able to apply Person Centred Approaches
- Apply clinical skills and able to reflect on own and others practice
- Excellent range of communication skills, able to motivate and support other staff
- Ability to facilitate presentations
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Risk assessment skills
- IT literate
- Ability to travel across boundaries
- Awareness of factors contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Understanding of partnership working
- Awareness of local agenda in health and social care
Desirable
- Demonstrate leadership skills to be able to initiate, monitor and implement change and fully participate the development of OT service delivery
- Apply Professional skills to enable MDT working partnerships and liaise with external agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Occupational Therapist with the Health Professions Council
- Diploma / Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Teaching / Mentorship qualification or equivalent work-based experience
Desirable
- Membership of professional body
- Practice placement education Qualification
- Evidence of post Registration study in a field relevant to post
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of OT functional assessment including activity analysis
- Experience of successful team working
- Experience of liaison with internal and external services and agencies
- Knowledge and ability to express an understanding of Occupational Therapy
- Process including activity and task analysis and the formulation of intervention plans grounded in clinical reasoning
- General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- Have an understanding of clinical and environmental risk assessment
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable
- Experience of service development audit and research practice relevant to the clinical area
- Experience of planning and facilitating therapeutic groups for patients/ clients
- Experience of service development
- Experience of being involved in clinical audit and/or research
- Familiar with Electronic Patient Records
- Management and clinical leadership
- A basic understanding of relevant legislation including The Mental Capacity Act
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Up to date knowledge and application of current best Practice in Occupational Therapy relevant Area of Practice
- Application of Occupational Therapy Outcome measures and Models of practice
- Application of the process of standard setting, audit, evaluation and review
- A sound knowledge of the core skills of Occupational Therapy and their application in this field
- Be able to communicate effectively with service users within the specific client group
- Have good listening skills
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Health Profession Councils standards of Proficiency and Occupational therapists responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
- Demonstrate knowledge the concepts of mentorship, and supervision. Evidence active participation supervision and the appraisal process
- Experience of Group and Individual interventions with the specific client group
- Experience working in a collaborative way with MDT and service users/carers
- Good time management skills
- Apply and promote OT skills, to include carrying out occupational assessments, setting clear occupational goals and facilitating a wide variety of therapeutic interventions via the provision of meaningful activities
- Able to apply Person Centred Approaches
- Apply clinical skills and able to reflect on own and others practice
- Excellent range of communication skills, able to motivate and support other staff
- Ability to facilitate presentations
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Risk assessment skills
- IT literate
- Ability to travel across boundaries
- Awareness of factors contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Understanding of partnership working
- Awareness of local agenda in health and social care
Desirable
- Demonstrate leadership skills to be able to initiate, monitor and implement change and fully participate the development of OT service delivery
- Apply Professional skills to enable MDT working partnerships and liaise with external agencies
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).
