Band 7 Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist - Rheumatology
Please see the attached Job Description for more details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of rheumatology patients, and to organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management To undertake a comprehensive specialist assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills To formulate an individualised occupational therapy management and/or treatment plan using clinical reasoning skills and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options in order to formulate a specialised programme of care, including psycho-social analysis, clinical joint examination, hand assessment and orthotics, joint protection, relaxation therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals. To promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care To take a lead role in training, supervising and performance management of undergraduate/MSc students and other therapy staff where appropriate To provide training within the Rheumatology Service to medical students from the University of East Anglia where applicable and at the request of other professionals within the Rheumatology Service To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, and gaining informed consent will be used with a variety of patients. Barriers to effective communication will regularly be evident, e.g. sensory loss, pain, fear, severe psycho-social problems To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment, and support other staff to do likewise To lead on the oversight, updating, developing and review of the digital and technology within the department, for example the Inflammatory Arthritis Advice App Please watch the following videos for an insight into our Integrated Therapies Department: Landscape version:https://youtu.be/tklpzav7UrU. Portrait version:https://youtube.com/shorts/U4lwU9T1wKA?feature=share
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