CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- To be professional, legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care and support more junior staff to do likewise.
- To be able to analyse clinical and social information from a range of sources and integrate this into your assessment in order to identify goals, develop a treatment plan and deliver patient centred care.
- To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations or multiple pathologies, using clinical reasoning skills and a variety of assessment techniques to provide an accurate analysis of their condition.
- To deliver effective, evidence-based occupational therapy treatment that is modified to reflect the patients on-going needs.
- To actively participate in the planning of complex discharges.
CLINICAL/SERVICE DELIVERY
- To be responsible for own practice and accountable for all aspects of occupational therapy treatment and care delivered to the patient.
- To be responsible for maintaining evidence based clinical practice both for self and band five occupational therapy /support worker members of the team under supervision.
- To be able to motivate and encourage patients with a range of conditions to work with treatment programmes and work towards treatment goals.
- To organise and lead family meetings and case conferences as required in order to facilitate realistic goal setting and appropriate discharge planning.
OPERATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
- To ensure that appropriate risk assessment/management occurs within designated area, reporting back to senior.
- To work on any of the Trust sites as requested.
- To use information technology to communicate assessment and treatment results to relevant disciplines and produce letters and reports as necessary.
LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
- To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service needs and patient priorities, readjusting plans as situations change/arise, on a day-to-day basis. To assist band 5 occupational therapists / support worker staff to do likewise.
- To be responsible in the day-to-day supervision and allocation of work to less experienced occupational therapists and support workers within the clinical team.
For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS