Band 5 Occupational Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title and Grade: Occupational Therapist

Band: 5

Location:Salford

Trust:The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (NCA)

Reports to:Band 6 Occupational Therapist

Responsible to:Occupational Therapy Operational / Professional Lead

Base/Department:Community Services

Speciality:Rapid Response/Urgent Care/Home safe

The Role:

We are currently looking for a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our amazing team on a permanent basis.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT).

Our dedicated 19,500-strong team NCA Family delivers healthcare excellence to over one million people across Salford, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury, as well as providing more specialist services to patients from Greater Manchester and beyond.

We also ensure we have the right people with the right skills in place to continuously improve the way people receive care, enabling resources, skills, and expertise to be shared in the best possible way.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of the role:

To carry out a holistic assessment of patients needs and develop, implement and evaluate treatment programmes for a designated caseload.

To complete referrals from Therapy Leads working alongside a fully Multi-disciplinary Team within Community Services

To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, coordinating discharge and taking an active role in case conference / planning meetings

To support people who have been discharged from a hospital setting by providing reablement in their own homes.

To work within the guidelines of the Therapy Team to stabilise people and help enable them to become independent.

To communicate sensitive information to patients and relevant others, relating to prognosis and condition. To discuss potential for rehabilitation / improvement and negotiate and plan future care needs for those with continued disability with empathy and reassurance.

To communicate assessment and treatment results, and information relating to condition to appropriate disciplines, and external agencies in the form of letters and reports, and through established communication networks.

To evaluate, adopt or adapt communication methods as appropriate to educational, social background or identified barriers including language disorders and cognitive problems.

To assess and gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with those who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and departmental requirements.

To demonstrate and develop basic leadership skills through identified areas of service development, linking in with personal objectives

To communicate sensitive information to patients and relevant others, relating to prognosis and condition. To discuss potential for rehabilitation / improvement and negotiate and plan future care needs for those with continued disability with empathy and reassurance.

To communicate assessment and treatment results, and information relating to condition to appropriate disciplines, and external agencies in the form of letters and reports, and through established communication networks.

To evaluate, adopt or adapt communication methods as appropriate to educational, social background or identified barriers including language disorders and cognitive problems.

To assess and gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with those who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records in line with legal and departmental requirements.

To demonstrate and develop basic leadership skills through identified areas of service development, linking in with personal objectives.

To apply for this post, you will need:

Hold a Current HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist

BSC / MSC Occupational Therapist

Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Specialist knowledge and application of Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention relevant to client group

Car driver and full driving licence

Please ask for a full Job Description This list is not exhaustive of the duties required.

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Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• To apply for this post, you will need:
• Hold a Current HCPC registration as an Occupational Therapist
• BSC / MSC Occupational Therapist

Experience

Essential

• To apply for this post, you will need:
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Specialist knowledge and application of Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention relevant to client group
• Car driver and full driving license

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 Professionals Limited

Address

Salford Royal Nhs Foundation Trust

Stott Lane

Salford

M6 8HD

Employer's website

https://www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)