Overview
Our Learning Disabilities Care Hub delivers care in the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with primary care, local authorities and other social and health care and voluntary sector providers. Our service users are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible experience as well as delivering safe, high-quality care.
Responsibilities
* Provide a safe, effective, responsive, efficient, timely occupational therapy service to people with learning disabilities, their families and carers.
* Undertake a range of comprehensive assessments with individuals with complex and challenging needs, requiring a highly specialist knowledge base.
* Develop person-centered specialist interventions to meet the needs of people with a learning disability.
* Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of intervention packages, implementing outcome measures.
* Create individualized therapy guidelines in a format that is easily understood by people with a learning disability, their families, and carers.
* Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information from service users, families and carers, using highly developed communication skills to overcome significant barriers.
* Work in a person-centered way across a variety of community settings meaningful to individuals, addressing physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological, sensory, social, and emotional needs.
* Embrace a proactive approach to the development of a healthy and active lifestyle.
* Manage complex cases and prioritise them, balancing personal workload.
* Deliver care pathways and take an active role in reviewing them.
* Assess personal and environmental risk, advising on measures to minimise or manage risk within the individual's support network.
* Utilise peer support from other occupational therapists within the care hub and across Greater Manchester.
* Demonstrate negotiation skills in dealing with complex and challenging issues with families and other professionals.
* Ensure accurate records are maintained, meeting trust record-keeping standards, including electronic or paper records.
* Actively network with team members and wider care hub to support projects and maintain best practice.
* Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings to share and develop therapeutic practice.
* Provide consultation to the wider multi-disciplinary team with complex cases.
About the role
The postholder will develop and provide a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to service users who have complex needs within the context of a multidisciplinary team. The role involves working with vulnerable and extremely challenging individuals, delivering assessments and interventions using person- and relationship-centered approaches within the unit and, at times, across the learning disability care hub supporting other locality community learning disability teams. The service spans five boroughs of Greater Manchester – Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Benefits
* Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
* Flexible working opportunities to support work/life balance.
* Access to continued professional development.
* Involvement in improvement and research activities.
* Health and wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.
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