Senior Occupational Therapist - Community

at  Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job Description Section 2 - Knowledge and Skills: Communications The post holder will need to: Develop working relationships with the immediate team Communicate with a wide range of people to ensure that treatment planning and intervention is holistic and cohesive Use a variety of communication methods throughout the working day, eg: email, written records and telephone. Communicate difficult or sensitive information relating to patient care Ensure that all locally produced information documents are in the corporate style and that all written information complies with Trust policy Responsibility for Patient Care The post holder will be responsible for: Carrying out appropriate occupational therapy assessments, based on good practice Developing treatment plans, tailored to the patients need and demonstrating sound clinical reasoning Delivering therapeutic intervention based on the findings of your assessments Promoting self-management to all patients Supporting patients (and their carers if appropriate) by providing information which is well sourced and of good quality. Assist patients, carers, relatives during incidental contact Planning and organising The post holder will: Organise and plan their own day to day workload, in order to meet the demands of the service and job role To participate in the supervision of more junior/unqualified staff To supervise occupational therapy students on clinical placement within the team Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources The post holder will ensure safe and effective use of equipment, resources and consumables at all times. Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation The post holder will: Be aware of, comment on and actively participate in changes on policy, procedure or service development.
To contribute to service development within the team Embrace and support line management and the department, in making service improvements effective within the work place To contribute to interdisciplinary training Attend training as identified in appraisal Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership The post holder will: Support new or less experienced work colleagues to adapt to the work place Responsibilities for Teaching and Training The post holder will: Participate in training and development activities that are relevant to the job role Deliver education and training to patients, their carers and other appropriate agencies, in relation to the role of an occupational therapist, the patients condition, healthy lifestyle choices and self-management Support learners of all disciplines and be a main educator for occupational therapy learners Responsibilities for data and information resources The post holder will: Comply with the standards expected by the Organisation, in relation to the inputting of activity data Research, Development and Audit The post holder will: Contribute to departmental, local or National audits when required Section 3 Effort and Environment: Physical Skills and Effort The post holder will: Be required to carry out activities which involve manual handling and physical activity Have access to reliable transport Be required to switch attention between tasks throughout the day Be required to use a computer for parts of every da

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