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Site Potters Bar Community Hospital Town Hertfordshire Salary £24.55 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period Hourly Closing 27/06/2025 12:00
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
3 x shifts a week – Thursday / Friday will be prioritised 08:00-16:00 – start and finish time can be flexible as long as core therapy hours covered.
· To work as an active member of the Potters Bar inpatient team which specialises in the treatment and management of patients with multiple conditions. To support the OT Lead in the development of the service to ensure integrated working with partnership organisations.
· To provide highly specialised assessment and treatment for patients with a variety of conditions, and to provide expert advice, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, carers and relatives and other non-professionals.
· To provide a specialised resource for other Occupational Therapy staff and health care professionals across Hertfordshire
Main duties of the job
· To provide clinical supervision and competency attainment forBand 6 OT and rehab assistants ensuring that they have an up to date Professional Development plan annually, through the Continuing Professional Development structure
· To be responsible for Occupational Therapy student clinical placements, and provide training, supervision and teaching as required
· To participate in the recruitment and selection process in conjunction with other senior staff
· To be responsible for non clinical induction of assistants and staff as required
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 provide a comprehensive highly specialised assessment of all clients to establish their abilities, limitations, and needs with regard to physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological, and social functioning.
· To agree on client centred goals and use of outcome measures in conjunction with the client, his/her family and multi-disciplinary professionals involved, and provide appropriate Occupational Therapy intervention andmultidisciplinary treatment programmes.
· To establish clinical priority, determine needs and initiate a specialist treatment plan for patients referred for OT using evidence based practice and judgement of highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
· To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work
· To set standards of good practise and to evaluate methods and effectiveness of therapy by ensuring that practise is evidence-basedand through the use of outcome measures
· To assess for and prescribe specialist assistive equipment to enable the clientsto maintain independence in activities of daily living which could include assessment and provision of specialist equipment or custom wheelchairs and seating devices.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* Degree in Occupational Therapy
* Current HCPC registration
* Evidence of CPD relevant to the treatment of adults with physical disabilities
* Membership of RCOT
* Member of specialist section(s) of RCOT
* Post graduate qualification in specialist area at a masters or equivalent level in specialist field
* Training in appraisal/supervision
Experience
* Appropriate clinical experience post registration (including experience of working in rehabilitation at Senior level)
* Experience as an OT in at least two of the following areas
* NHS experience
* Being involved with assessment and implementation of minor and major adaptations to a persons home on the grounds of disability
* Experience of research and clinical audit
* Experience of working with social services
* Experience in setting up and running activity based group programme
Skills & Knowledge
* Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning
* Ability to apply core Occupational Therapy skills across a range of clinical conditions within a client centred, goal setting approach
* Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of people with complex multi-pathologies
* Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence based practice
* Knowledge and understanding of the role of social services and voluntary agencies
* Knowledge of research and audit processes
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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