NHS Jobs
Job role: Occupational Therapist
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 301-KM-26-7765373-A
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About the Job:
- To assess new service user referrals and support needs. Assess CYP and formulate, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of treatment/support for children, young people, families & carers.
- Take lead in specialist area and provide advice and support to others. The specialist care/support plans may include:
* Independence/self-management and maintaining safety
* Increased functional ability
* Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health
* Interventions in condition management
* Prevention and reducing of health inequalities
* Case management/ treatment/ care plans
- To use specialist knowledge and judgement to take into account the range of support packages and treatment options available.
- To consider the personal circumstances and preferences of children, young people and families in order to implement and adjust programmes of care and intervention.
- To maintain and develop skills and knowledge to deliver a range of interventions and set an example of good practice to other team members including skill sharing.
- Provides teaching/training in specialist area to the wider workforce as required.
- To maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of the children, young people, families and their carers offering reassurance and empathy, in particular when imparting potentially distressing information. This may be in regard to the nature/prognosis of their condition/situation and implications of the same including managing any conflict that may arise.
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