Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a motivated Occupational Therapist to join the Primary Care Home Hub (PCH) based at Hamilton house in Lowestoft. The team delivers Community healthcare to patients in their own home in the Lowestoft area.
This role focuses on the provision of Occupational therapy assessment and interventions. Delivering care, support and encouragement to patients in order to promote independence. Responding to patient and family needs. Prevent unnecessary hospital admission and support end of life care at home. The Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary team of Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, and Rehabilitation Support Workers delivering nursing, therapy and reablement/rehab services to adults in their own homes.
Do you have excellent communication skills, consider yourself to be caring and compassionate and want to make a difference to the patients experience on a daily basis, whilst being able to demonstrate how you embody our values and commitments and have a desire for personal and professional develop? This could be your new job.
Ideally some experience in community work would be an advantage, but we will support transition from a different therapy environment for the right candidate.
Support and training to develop your leadership and line management skills will be provided.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of occupational therapy within the integrated community services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to patients within a range of domiciliary settings.
To provide clinical case management for a caseload of patients who require occupational therapy.
Participate in rapid assessment for patients who present with a variety of acute, chronic, and age-related conditions.
To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope of professional practice.
To supervise delegation of work to the Therapy Assistant Practitioners.
To provide clinical leadership, operational management and professional support to other members of the multidisciplinary team within the Primary Care Home.
Contribute to recruitment and retention of staff and team development
The service uses SystmOne as a clinical IT system to support mobile working.
The service operates 7 days a week 7:00 to 20:30 hours. Applicants for this post will be required to work between Monday to Friday, flexibility of start and finish times will be considered. At times you may be required to work with another of the 4 PCH's from a different location to cover staff sickness, or capacity pressures.
For further information or an informal visit please contact Therapy Lead [email protected]
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
To be
professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own
work, including the management of individuals in your care.
To undertake the
comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex
presentation, using 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, and support
more junior staff to do likewise.
To undertake
comprehensive assessment of patients, using investigative and analytical skills
and to formulate individualised and management and treatment plans, using
clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options
to formulate a specialised programme of care.
To interpret and
analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis and
prognosis in a wide range of conditions, to recommend the best course of
intervention and to develop comprehensive management strategies for the
patients presenting condition.
To use a range of
standardised and non-standardised assessment tools and techniques to identify
presenting strengths and difficulties. To enhance and develop the skills and
dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual
treatment of patients. To be safe and competent in the use of therapy
equipment.
To refine
treatment techniques in line with the most recent evidence of clinical
effectiveness by evaluating and implementing key developments and promoting
discussion within service.
To devise
individualised therapy management or treatment plans which may be implemented
and supported by other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To provide
advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, and other professionals,
to promote understanding of the aims of therapy to ensure a consistent approach
to patient care.
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 have a working
knowledge of equipment, minor adaptations and resources including Activities of
Daily Living equipment, therapy, and rehabilitation aids, moving and handling
equipment and a basic knowledge of wheelchair provision to compensate for
unresolved functional deficits, in line with local resources, guidelines and
legislations.
To consider the
needs of carers 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.
Managerial:
Training,
supervision and performance management of other members of the
multidisciplinary team which may include Assistant Practitioner, Nursing
Associates, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, Nurses,
Rehab Support Workers and students, with assistance from more senior members of
the team. This will include the use of
formal appraisal documentation.
To provide
teaching/training to other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
To comply with
the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved
in the reviewing and updating as appropriate.
Be actively
involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of
the service.
To deputise for
Band 7 in terms of operational issues when appropriate.
Participate in
any other duties which may be deemed appropriate by the management team.
Professional:
To work
autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope of
professional practice.
Adhere to Health
Care and Professions Council and Royal College of Occupational Therapy (COT)
Professional Standards and Conduct, Organisational Policies, and guidance.
To maintain own
clinical professional development (CPD).
Identify
objectives for personal development.
Participate in
the staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Programme (PDP).
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.
To comply with
the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved
in their review as appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registration with HCPC
- Continued professional development portfolio including evidence of reflective practice, in service training, and any courses attended and clinical experience gained
Desirable
- Post graduate course(s) relevant to post
- Membership of relevant professional network
- APPLE or Student supervisor course
Experience
Essential
- Postgraduate experience
- Experience of working as part of therapy team and multi-disciplinary team
- Completion of preceptorship
- Experience of working with frail older adults
- Awareness and understanding of HCPC and RCOT standards and other national and local initiatives
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments
- Self-directed learning
Desirable
- Clinical experience gained in a community/intermediate care setting
- Student supervision/clinical education
- Palliative care
- Complex manual handling skills, knowledge of hoists, stand aids, turntables
- Experience of audit
- Experience of teaching on inhouse sessions to staff or service users
- Presentation skills
- Evidence of membership clinical specialist interest groups
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the integration agenda
- Able to work collaboratively within a team
- Able to work independently
- Committed to personal and team development
- Self-directed learning
- Ability to deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety and aggression
- Capacity to concentrate for considerable periods of time during assessment and management of patients and be expected to respond immediately to interruptions
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of and the implications of standard 6 of the NSF for the elderly, NICE Clinical Guidance 21 (Falls Prevention) and the RCP Falls and Bone Health Audit
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together)
- Ability to work without direct supervision
- Able to work collaboratively within a team
- Able to work independently
- Committed to personal and team development
- Committed to personal centred, non-discriminatory practice
- Aware of requirements of confidentiality
- Forward thinking
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to maintain judgement under pressure
- Able to maintain motivation, drive and enthusiasm
- Confident
- Flexible approach to work and participate in shift patterns
- Ability to travel around ECCH area to deliver patient care
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 .
Employer details
Employer name
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
Address
Hamilton House
Battery Green Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 1DE