Senior Occupational Therapist, Palliative Care - Band 6

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner in liaison with other health professionals within a multidisciplinary team. To work with patients and those important to them to complete comprehensive, patient centred assessment and intervention that looks at helping with functional and comfort symptom management. To communicate with the multi disciplinary teams (MDT) to aid effective patient care, which will include taking an active role in team meetings, joint treatment sessions, case conferences and the Oncology Palliative Care Specialist Interest peer group meetings. Either working alone or as part of the multi-disciplinary team, to make recommendations for appropriate and timely discharge/transfer from hospital.
To consolidate and learn new skills and competencies to provide holistic care using the Therapy Competency Framework. To develop clinical reasoning and treatment techniques through the active participation in training and development. To consolidate knowledge and skills learned through this process with the direction of senior staff, and deliver evidence-based training. This will involve facilitating own learning opportunities, reflecting on practice and learning through this process.
To provide education, support and guidance in palliative care for therapy staff, undergraduate students and other medical and healthcare staff, in order to develop clinical skills and to promote consistency of practice. This includes devising and delivering training programmes. As well as promoting effective communication with therapy, consultant, nursing and other healthcare staff in order to agree an inter-professional approach to patient management and ensure equity of care. To participate in service and policy development and support the implementation of policies and service improvements.
In order to maintain and achieve Government, Trust and Therapy targets. This will include effectively planning, organising and balancing clinical and non-clinical activities such as meetings and administration. To contribute to the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda by active participation in service initiatives, health and safety and risk management. To maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with departmental and professional standards and include relevant outcome measures.
This will include writing patient reports for e.g. medical practitioners and solicitors requests. To comply with Trust and Departmental policies and procedures e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Manual Handling, clinical equipment competency, risk management, Data Protection Acts and patient confidentiality at all times.
This will include demonstrating compliance with the terms of all safeguarding policies and processes relevant to the safeguarding of adults and children in the care of GHNHSFT and to undergo regular mandatory training concerned with safeguarding matters

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