Primary Care Occupational Therapist - Work Health

Job description

Job responsibilities

The principal duties of the role are:

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of individuals in your care as an occupational therapist.

• To undertake the comprehensive assessment of occupational needs, including those with a complex presentation, using occupational therapy investigative and analytical skills.

• To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently about clinical priorities and use of time.

• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management within occupational therapy provision

• To undertake comprehensive occupation-based assessment of patients, using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to design a specialised programme of occupational therapy care

• To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to create an accurate occupational formulation plan, to recommend the best course of intervention and to develop comprehensive management strategies for the patient to enable return, retention of work role.

• To use a range of standardised and non-standardised assessment tools and techniques to identify presenting strengths and difficulties from an occupational perspective.

• To refine treatment techniques in line with the most recent evidence of clinical effectiveness by evaluating and implementing key developments and promoting discussion within primary care.

• To devise individualised occupational therapy management or treatment plans which may be implemented and supported by other members of the multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.

• To provide advice, teaching and instruction to relevant stakeholders, to promote understanding of the aims of therapy to ensure a consistent approach to work health.

• To assess mental capacity, gain valid informed consent and can work within a legal framework with patients who lack this capacity to consent to treatment.

• Demonstrate the ability to overcome barriers to communication.

• To consider the needs of carers and employers to ensure necessary support systems are in place and to involve them in the rehabilitation process.

• To consider the potential psychological risk factors and functional implications of these.

• Demonstrate the ability to overcome barriers to communication.

• Undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices using evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with the support of the audit team potentially resulting in recommendations for change.

• Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters in line with professional standards.

• Be aware of the Health and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies which may be required to improve the safety of your work area, including the prompt recording, and reporting of accidents to senior staff, and ensuring that equipment is safe.

• Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situation.

• To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out your duties and to adhere to departmental policies, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training, and supervision of practice.

• Be actively involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the service.

• To provide teaching/training to other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Person Specification

Knowledge, training and experience

Essential

• Registration with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist
• Experience of working as an occupational therapists within a complex rehabilitation
• Understanding of work health

Desirable

• Experience of quality improvement and evaluation process
• Working within a community/primary care

Management and planning skills

Essential

• Experience of multi-professional and agency working as an occupational therapist
• Demonstrates autonomous practice, understanding scope of practice and professional boundaries.
• Demonstrates ability to lead self and others

Desirable

• Experience of project management

Equity, diversity and inclusion

Essential

• Demonstrates commitment to inclusive practice
• Able to communicate and lead sensitively taking in to account difference and

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Coventry and Warwickshire

Coventry and Warwickshire

CV1 2NJ

Employer's website

https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/integrated-care-board/ (Opens in a new tab)