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Job Purpose:
To provide occupational therapy assessment, treatment and advice to patients in their home environment or other settings in order to promote and facilitate patient independence and well-being, within professional guidelines and protocols.
Key Responsibilities- To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing Occupational Therapy treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of team members and Team Leader.
- To undertake assessments, care planning and evaluation of patients
- To ensure work efficiently considering clinical and team priorities
- Develop and implement individualised treatment plans keeping the patient at the centre, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- To act as an autonomous clinician accountable for your own clinical tasks.
- To interpret situations acting and referring on appropriately.
- To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence.
- To deliver clinical care for a variety of patients.
- To work within the integrated multi-professional team.
- To use recognised outcome measures to evaluate the effect of therapy interventions and ensure the treatment programmes are progressing appropriately.
- To establish good relationships with patients promoting and empowering a life long model of self-care and appropriate activity to maintain good health.
- This job will involve frequent exposure to unpleasant working conditions e.g.Bodilyfluids, including sputum, unpleasant smells and occasional exposure to hostility in the form of verbal and physical aggression.
- To actively participate in supervision, training, and team meetings
- To provide patients, families, and carers with Occupational Therapy advice and/or instruction. This is essential to gain patient engagement with treatment ,maximise potential and to ensure consistent patient management.
- To use interpreters when required to ensure effective communication with patients who are hard of hearing or do not speak/understand enough English for the purposes of consent and co-operation for treatment.
- To develop and maintain close working relationships with colleagues, referring clinicians and other appropriate professions and agencies ensuring optimal communication and patient care.
- To report all complaints/incidents immediately to the senior member of staff and document accordingly
- To maintain comprehensive and accurate patient records in accordance with professional body and Trust guidelines and to ensure the safe keeping and confidentiality of these records.
This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the postholder, and other duties may be required, in line with the role and the banding.It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the postholder to take account of changing organisational need.
