Job summary
Our service goals:
1. Admission avoidance
2. Speedy discharge from hospital
3. Enabling the person to remain in their chosen home environment
Main duties of the job
Role Profile
This post requires an occupational therapist who is specialised and can work at a high level of practice in primary care. They will use in-depth, expert knowledge, clinical skills, and experience in the management of patients, groups, and communities occupational participation.The post holder will provide personalised, biopsychosocial occupational therapy interventions frominitial clinical assessment, diagnosis, intervention to evaluation.
They will provide complex clinical decision-making, and expert care for patients in primary care. They will have a comprehensive understanding of how to use risk assessment for undifferentiateddiagnoses and clinical red flags, including when alternative input is required.They will work collaboratively with the primary care multi-disciplinary team (MDT) across pathwaysand systems.
They will provide occupational therapy leadershipacross clinical practice, education, and research.The focus of this service will be rehabilitation for older adults to stay well at home.
There will be the requirement to use risk stratification tools, rapid access, assessment of the home and short-term interventions including advice on how people can be safely managed. Will also include working into care homes and palliative care, dealing with undifferentiated diagnosis and red flags.
About us
Who We Are
Founded only in August 2020, Primary Care Physio has scaled rapidly and is one of the fastest-growing clinical service providers in the UK. Underpinned by our reputation for quality and sustainable care, we have already been established as England's largest national specialist first contact physiotherapy and podiatry provider who is purely focused on supporting NHS Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and their GP practices to deliver high-quality and tech-enabled NHS primary care FCP solutions.Our services are recognised as best-in-class for our industry, recently winning the 'Best in Primary Care & Diagnostics' LaingBuisson 2023 award.
Through our talented employed team of over nearly 400 employed First Contact Practitioners & Advanced Practitioners, who are supported by experienced and Health Education England-trained FCP clinical supervisors, we have been commissioned by c 200 NHS Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to deliver an integrated and local FCP managed service. We now serve 1000+ GP practices and a patient population of over 9 million.
We have now diversified to include Occupational Therapy in our service offer, and are searching for a dynamic, enthusiastic and driven OT with specialist frailty experience to join our team in Gloucester who is keen to develop their career and support PCPs OT service line growth.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Practice
Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment plans, with an aim to to ensure people can cope at home, including support for carers.
Use of frailty indexes to identify people needing a proactive approach.
Rapid crisis response to prevent hospital admission or to speed discharge.
Short term rehabilitation interventions and referral onto specialist services if indicated.
Work with patients through a shared-decision making approach to plan realistic, outcomes-focused goals.
Undertake both verbal and non-verbal communication methods to address the needs of patients that have communication difficulties.
Work in partnership with multi-disciplinary team colleagues, physiotherapists and social workers, alongside the patients' families and carers in treatment planning to aid rehabilitation.Evidence, Research, and Development
Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance for your own practice, including undertaking regular audit and evaluation, supervision, and training in line with HEEs Roadmapto Practice.
Liaise with PCN multi-disciplinary team, community and secondary care staff, to arrange further investigations and onward referrals.
Communicate outcomes and integrate findings into their own and wider service practice and pathway development.
Where appropriate, support the development of discharge and contingency plans with relevant professionals to arrange on-going care in residential, care home, hospital, and community settings.
As required, advise on home and workplace environmental alterations, such as adjustments for wheelchair access, technological needs, and ergonomic support.
Develop best-in-class Occupational Therapy Standard Operating Procedures for appropriate onward referral pathways and care pathways noting local variances.Leadership
Provide leadership and support on occupational therapy clinical service development across your PCN, alongside learning opportunities for the whole multi-disciplinary team within primary care.
Lead the development of crisis and contingency plans with relevant professionals to prevent admission to or speed discharge from hospital. This should focus on maximising and maintaining independence in preferred home, work, and community settings.
Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a seamless occupational therapy service across primary care. This will include working with health, social care and voluntary sectors, improving standards of patient care and cross boundary working.
Lead and manage service delivery by supporting Primary Care Physio in evidencing what best practice looks like and extending our service reach across England.
Liaise with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists to support implementation of best practice, and act as a thought leader for OTs working in primary care.Facilitating learning
Facilitate and co-create interprofessional learning about occupational needs and interventions for primary care staff, to enhance local decision making.
Demonstrate high standards of personal and professional development, actively participating in mentoring and supervision to develop and share learning with colleagues. Promote the use of peer review and best practice at work, alerting other team members to issues of inequality and risk.
Contribute to and co-create relevant audit processes, implementing ongoing service changes to better meet local population needs.
Be a point of contact for your Primary Care Physio colleagues to answer clinical queires as and when they present, including delivering in-house in service training to the wider PCP clinical team(s).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. BSc in or pre-reg MSc in Occupational Therapy under a training programme approved by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT).
2. Fully HCPC and RCOT registered practicing Occupational Therapist.
3. An up-to-date CPD portfolio demonstrating that you able to operate at an advanced level of practice.
Desirable
4. Completion of an appropriate level 7 MSc in Advanced Practice
Experience
Desirable
5. Fully verified HEE Roadmap to Practice (Stage 1).
6. Experience of working in primary care