Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Risk Management

• Undertaking the assessment of risk and applying clinical reasoning to mitigate risk and identify least restrictive interventions.
• Undertaking the assessment, planning and review for safeguarding cases.
• Completing and/or supporting the completion of a range of functional assessments and reviews that will identify needs, options and promote well- being and maximise independence.
• Managing and/or supporting cases and/or situations with identified risk, and ensuring occupational therapist interventions are proportionate to need.
• Managing workload independently, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.
• Reporting concerns and complaints following appropriate escalation route.

Information, Advice and Advocacy

• Ensuring the staff and/or services you supervise/deliver, provide information and advice using a professional understanding of the application of legislation and guidance.
• Ensuring the staff and/or services you supervise/deliver, provide information and advice through local community networks, to support local empowerment, well-being and maximise independence.
• Promoting the availability of information and advice to other professional colleagues and teams, that address health and social care needs.
• Empowering and advocating on behalf of individuals and communities and enabling access to an independent advocate when appropriate.

Multi-disciplinary Working

• Actively building and maintaining relationships with other professionals and working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Recognising cases that will benefit from planned multi-disciplinary working and/or an appropriate response to unplanned work.
• Taking the lead for multi-disciplinary case work as appropriate and contributing to multi-disciplinary case work.
• Adhering to, and/or supporting staff to adhere to protocols to share information with multi-disciplinary teams.

Leadership, management and supervision

• Taking responsibility for access to line management, supervision, personal development and performance objectives.
• Ensuring any supervisory duties are undertaken.
• Supporting staff in achieving the operational priorities for the team.
• Supporting staff in undertaking new and more challenging work.
• Contributing to team working and collaborative working with others.

Capacity Building

• Recognising and using the expertise of individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to promote independence and well- being and maximise independence.
• Working with individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks.
• Working with other professionals to provide support to individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks.

Professional Practice

• Demonstrating own professional practice, and meeting the requirements of registration.
• Retaining responsibility for professional updates and Continuous Professional Development.
• Modelling the occupational therapy role within and outside the team.
• Understanding the boundaries of own professional practice, when to seek support and how to address own learning needs.
• Establishing a network of internal and external colleagues with whom you can share expertise and seek advice.
• Contributing to the development of occupational therapy practice and the learning of others.
• Understanding the organisational and political context in which you are working and how this impacts on practice

Safeguarding

• All employees will be required to adhere to internal safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance, taking action and raising concerns as appropriate. Where a professional code of conduct applies to the role, this must also be adhered to.
• All employees will be required to have an understanding and awareness of the specific responsibilities placed on individuals who care for vulnerable adults.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration.

Desirable

• An understanding of the statutory duties of local government in social care.
• An understanding of equalities.
• An understanding of data protection & confidentiality.
• Knowledge of social care model.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire County Council

Address

Willow Court

Charlton Road

Andover

Hampshire

SP10 3JY

Employer's website

https://www.hants.gov.uk/jobs (Opens in a new tab)