Job summary
Our Short Term Bedded Services ensure timelydischarges,admission avoidance and provide community optionsfor Hampshire residents, using strength based and person-centredassessment. As a qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration, youll offer first-class occupational therapy support to older adults to get them back on their feet and ready to go home. Youll be responsible for initial assessments right the way through to the delivery of appropriate interventions, enabling you to see first-hand the impact of your support.
Main duties of the job
As an Occupational Therapist you'll provide person-centred functional analysisand interventions, through the enactment of social care legislation and localgovernment requirements. Using your occupational therapy clinical knowledge,skills and values, you'll be comfortable working as an independent practitioner.
About us
Willow Court in Andover is a recovery and assessment suite offering 24 hournursing care. We support residents who have been discharged from hospital fora period of up to 28 days. We are working in partnership with HampshireHospitals and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Risk Management
1. Undertaking the assessment of risk and applying clinical reasoning to mitigate risk and identify least restrictive interventions.
2. Undertaking the assessment, planning and review for safeguarding cases.
3. Completing and/or supporting the completion of a range of functional assessments and reviews that will identify needs, options and promote well- being and maximise independence.
4. Managing and/or supporting cases and/or situations with identified risk, and ensuring occupational therapist interventions are proportionate to need.
5. Managing workload independently, seeking support and suggesting solutions for workload difficulties.
6. Reporting concerns and complaints following appropriate escalation route.
Information, Advice and Advocacy
7. Ensuring the staff and/or services you supervise/deliver, provide information and advice using a professional understanding of the application of legislation and guidance.
8. Ensuring the staff and/or services you supervise/deliver, provide information and advice through local community networks, to support local empowerment, well-being and maximise independence.
9. Promoting the availability of information and advice to other professional colleagues and teams, that address health and social care needs.
10. Empowering and advocating on behalf of individuals and communities and enabling access to an independent advocate when appropriate.
Multi-disciplinary Working
11. Actively building and maintaining relationships with other professionals and working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
12. Recognising cases that will benefit from planned multi-disciplinary working and/or an appropriate response to unplanned work.
13. Taking the lead for multi-disciplinary case work as appropriate and contributing to multi-disciplinary case work.
14. Adhering to, and/or supporting staff to adhere to protocols to share information with multi-disciplinary teams.
Leadership, management and supervision
15. Taking responsibility for access to line management, supervision, personal development and performance objectives.
16. Ensuring any supervisory duties are undertaken.
17. Supporting staff in achieving the operational priorities for the team.
18. Supporting staff in undertaking new and more challenging work.
19. Contributing to team working and collaborative working with others.
Capacity Building
20. Recognising and using the expertise of individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to promote independence and well- being and maximise independence.
21. Working with individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks.
22. Working with other professionals to provide support to individuals, carers, families, communities and hard to reach groups to build safe, strong and caring social networks.
Professional Practice
23. Demonstrating own professional practice, and meeting the requirements of registration.
24. Retaining responsibility for professional updates and Continuous Professional Development.
25. Modelling the occupational therapy role within and outside the team.
26. Understanding the boundaries of own professional practice, when to seek support and how to address own learning needs.
27. Establishing a network of internal and external colleagues with whom you can share expertise and seek advice.
28. Contributing to the development of occupational therapy practice and the learning of others.
29. Understanding the organisational and political context in which you are working and how this impacts on practice
Safeguarding
30. All employees will be required to adhere to internal safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance, taking action and raising concerns as appropriate. Where a professional code of conduct applies to the role, this must also be adhered to.
31. All employees will be required to have an understanding and awareness of the specific responsibilities placed on individuals who care for vulnerable adults.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
32. Qualified Occupational Therapist with current HCPC registration.
Desirable
33. An understanding of the statutory duties of local government in social care.
34. An understanding of equalities.
35. An understanding of data protection & confidentiality.
36. Knowledge of social care model.