Advanced Practitioner Optimal Handed Care Lead

Integrated Care System; Taunton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System is seeking an Advanced Practitioner Optimal Handed Care Lead in Taunton. This role provides an opportunity to lead a specialized project aimed at improving patient flow and ensuring high-quality care delivery. The candidate will manage complex care, provide supervision, and work collaboratively across various departments to promote the Optimal Handed Care initiative, enhancing health outcomes for the community.

Benefits

30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employee assistance programs and wellbeing services

Relocation assistance up to £8,000

Discounted lease car options

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to exercise professional judgement to manage risk in complex situations.
• In-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements and professional standards.
• Experience in educating and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high-level assessments and manage complex needs.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders and lead health initiatives.
• Monitor performance and data to enhance quality of care.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Risk Management

Communication

Education

Qualified and HCPC registered Occupational Therapist

Job description

Advanced Practitioner Optimal Handed Care Lead

• Locations:- A County Wide Role based usually at County Hall, Taunton.
• Ideal opportunity for an experienced practitioner looking for their next step into leading a team and as an Advanced Practitioner.
• An opportunity to be innovative and a visionary team leadership to promote the profession, founded on person-centred, compassionate, and values-based leadership principles.

Main duties of the job

This is a key role in the evolving health and social care pathways, including the reablement pathway, to improve patient flow. It is a highly specialised clinical lead role advising on complex discharge planning whilst developing stronger links with community providers, including development of joint training packages, and risk management strategies.

About us

• This grade offers 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to request to buy up to 2 weeks additional annual leave pro rata.
• Hybrid working options where the role allows
• A new comprehensive induction programme supported by Practice Development Advanced Practitioners, plus a confidential and impartial welcome call to ensure your induction goes smoothly.
• Ongoing support & development opportunities regular CPD events arranged and delivered by our dedicated Adult Social Care Learning and Development team, including an annual Carnival of Practice event with key speakers such as the Chief Social Worker, a team of Advanced Practitioner Practice Development roles to support our workforce, personalised personal development plans, a corporate coaching and mentoring scheme.
• Employee assistance and support offering a variety of wellbeing services and events to support a healthy work/life balance inc. a free online gym offer, dedicated Mental Wellbeing Ambassadors and much more!
• Relocation of up to £8,000, subject to meeting eligibility requirements.
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of discounts online and on the high street
• My Staff Shop which offers a variety of discounts including; cinemas, shopping, restaurants, gym discounts and more!
• Discounted lease car options via salary sacrifice, along with discounts on fuel
• Cycle to work scheme

Job responsibilities

The Advanced Practitioner Optimal Handed Care Lead is responsible for a wide range of duties that ensure high-quality care and compliance with professional standards. These responsibilities include:

1. Professional Competence and Assessment: Conduct high-level assessments, including seating and posture, impacts on major adaptations, Optimal Handed Care, and advanced risk management planning. Manage an allocated workload requiring professional competence in assessing complex needs, risks, support planning, care, and review.

2. Collaboration and Partnerships: Collaborate effectively with various departments, agencies, neighbourhoods, health, local community groups, and charities to promote health and wellbeing using occupation. Develop close relationships with stakeholders to promote health and wellbeing through occupation. Stakeholder Engagement: You will lead discussions with key stakeholders to ensure the SHC pathway is safe and sustainable. Community Links: You will develop strong links with community providers, including joint training packages and risk management strategies.

3. Compliance and Standards: Ensure practice compliance with national professional and local policies, procedures, and legislation, including the National Back exchange recommendations, data protection, equality, diversity and inclusion, ethics, health and safety, risk management, and safeguarding. Support others to adhere to the Health and Care Professions Councils professional regulatory requirements and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Professional standards for Occupational Therapy practices, conduct, and ethics. Clinical Advice: Providing highly specialised Occupational Therapy (OT) clinical advice within the Council and Somerset Foundation Trust and externally, engaging less experienced staff in training opportunities and empowering them in positive risk management.

4. Training and Education: Provide high-quality regular supervision and appraisals to qualified workers within the team to ensure safe, legal, and high-quality practice. Act as a role model to inspire, supervise, mentor, and educate others, including learners and apprentices. Complete 'training the trainer' moving and handling course and act as a practice educator.

5. Data Management and Performance: Collect and manipulate data, collate, and feedback on performance against set objectives to support continual improvement. Record information clearly and accurately to meet the requirements of the council and regulatory bodies. Formulate and lead on the achievement of specific objectives aligned to local, regional, and national strategic direction, to facilitate a high-performance team focused on the needs of the people and populations who access services, their families, and their carers

6. Service Planning and Leadership: Formulate and lead on the achievement of specific objectives aligned to local, regional, and national strategic direction to facilitate a high-performance team. Provide innovative and visionary team leadership to promote the profession, founded on person-centred, compassionate, and values-based leadership principles. Project Leadership: to lead and develop Optimal Handed Care (OHC) practices within the discharge pathways, working alongside the NHS Therapy Management team to promote the OHC agenda and ensure a safe and robust discharge pathway from the Acute and Community Hospitals to home.

7. Professional Skills and Techniques: Complete the occupational therapy process using advanced decision-making skills within complex contexts to ensure high-quality practice. Assume professional accountability and responsibility for a broad aspect of service delivery, including allocation and prioritisation of cases. Team Management: To lead a small project team in reviewing high intensity packages of care (in enhanced peer forum), collecting data, and producing reports for senior managers.

8. Budget Monitoring and Audits: Act as authoriser for a delegated value of items ordered through the community equipment service to ensure value for money and client satisfaction. Participate proactively in audits and assurance activities to ensure high-quality, safe, and legal practice.

9. Communication and Feedback: Role-model advanced communication skills, including active listening, negotiation, managing sensitive news, and justifying own viewpoint. Utilise formal systems for obtaining feedback from people who access services, their families, and their Carers.

10. Inclusivity and Participation: Contribute to strategies and practices that challenge stigma and discrimination and promote inclusivity and participation for people who access occupational therapy services. Pathway Development: working alongside colleagues across the integrated Care system within Somerset to produce a shared vision for the OHC pathway, considering positive patient/client experience and outcomes.

11. Risk Management and Evaluation: Exercise professional judgement to manage risk, including positive risk-taking, especially in complex and unpredictable situations. Embed the evaluation of impact into practice across all settings and at an operational level. Education and Development: Responsible for the management, education, and development of the therapy staff/teams, as well as Domiciliary Care Providers and staff within the Residential settings and any other staff across the ICS. Exercise professional judgement to manage risk, including positive risk-taking, especially in complex and unpredictable situations, and support others to do so.

12. Continuing Professional Development: Engage in, apply, and record relevant continuing professional development activities across the four Pillars of Practice as an expert in this field of practice. Teach and learn about the value of occupations for health and wellbeing. Provide high quality regular supervision and appraisals, to qualified workers within the project team to ensure practice is safe, legal, and high quality, and meets HCPC requirements. Embed the evaluation of impact into practice, across all settings and at an operational level. Role-model ways to engage in, apply and record relevant continuing professional development activities across the four Pillars of Practice, to identify the impact and benefit of own learning for self and others, including people who access services, their families, and their Carers.

13. Advocacy and Culture: Advocate for and facilitate the creation of a culture that encourages reflection, learning, constructive feedback, and mutual learning. Act as a role model to inspire, supervise, mentor, and educate others (including learners and apprentices) seeking to instil and develop confidence. Create opportunities for self and others to work across practice and education settings (e.g. student recruitment, practice-based learning, curriculum development/teaching, assessment)., including practice education, Encourage learning by challenging complacency, actions and ways of thinking that may not be in the best interests of the public and/or those who access services, their families, and their Carers.

Person Specification

Experience

• Ability to exercise professional judgement to manage risk, including positive risk-taking, especially in complex and unpredictable situations.
• Ability to embed the evaluation of impact into practice across all settings and at an operational level.
• An in-depth knowledge of the Health and Care Professions Councils professional regulatory requirements and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct, and ethics.
• An Optimal Handed Care Ethos and person centredness to lead such an important project.
• A Knowledge of the principles of rehabilitation and moving and handling, including the unique contribution of occupational therapy and interprofessional knowledge and skills.
• A good understanding of health conditions, presentations, and the wider determinants of health that impact on a persons ability to move and transfer safely and do the things they want, need, or are be expected to do.
• Further developing practice Teaching skills and Leadership as part of project management.
• Experience in acting as a role model to inspire, supervise, mentor, and educate others, including learners and apprentices.

Qualifications

• Qualified and HCPC registered Occupational Therapist.
• Completion of training the trainer moving and handling course.
• Certification in interprofessional networks to promote the
• exchange of knowledge, skills, resources, and peer review
• processes.

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.