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Site Langley House, Town Watford Salary £20.06 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period Hourly Closing 07/07/2025 23:59
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
JOB PURPOSE
To Provide urgent high-quality, short-term programs of care for vulnerable adults in their own home with acute
health needs, and to facilitate timely discharge from urgent and acute care settings.
Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of
clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and
maintaining professional documentation.
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate timely assessment and co-ordinated discharge planning,
liaising with appropriate team members when patient’s are acutely unwell.
To hold responsibility for own caseload, working with and without direct supervision.
Provide support, teaching and clinical supervision for other team members, student Occupational Therapists.
To work flexibly, being willing to work on other Unplanned Care pathways when required.
Main duties of the job
To undertake specialised multi-professional assessments, develop and implement treatment plans for clients
referred to the Unplanned Care services. These clients will present with a variety of complex multi-pathologies
within specialist areas, including neurological conditions.
Participate in triaging referrals and allocation of visits appropriately.
To communicate relevant medical information, assessment details, advice and recommendations across
agencies and with clients in compliance with trust guidelines for sharing of information and informed consent.
Following specialist assessment, to use advanced clinical reasoning, analysis, assessment and reassessment skills and using a client-centered goal setting approach, to develop and provide individual
occupational therapy treatments and programmes for clients. These treatment techniques may include
functional activities, manual occupational therapy treatment techniques or patient and care giver education.
To demonstrate compassion, empathy and sensitivity towards clients who may have complex emotional and
physical conditions such as fear of falling, anxiety, pain and other physical, psychological and social concerns
or when delivering unwelcome news around their condition or rehabilitation prognosis.
To comply with local risk assessments when dealing with complex clients with challenging behavioural needs
and high risk environments
Working for our organisation
We providecommunity health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
stay well
manage their own health with the right support
avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision:deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be responsible for maintaining detailed and accurate patient treatment records in line with RCOT and legal
standards.
To be responsible for complying with legal and professional confidentiality guidelines at all times.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work ensuring that the standard of
professional work meets professional standards and clinical guidelines.
To actively participate in CLCH Appraisal Scheme, both as an appraiser and appraise, by identifying key
performance objectives and continuing education needs
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
* Current HPC Registration
* Post Graduate qualification in relevant field or equivalent combination of degree, short courses and experience
* Evidence of CPD relevant to the treatment of people with physical disabilities and those with falls risks factors.
* PSI (Postural Stability Instructor) Accredited Training
* Member of Specialist Body e.g COT SS-Older people
* Training in appraisal and clinical supervision
* BAOT Membership
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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