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Job role: Occupational Therapist
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £44,485.00 to £52,521.00 per year
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: C9294-25-0480
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About the Job:
- To provide Occupational Therapy five days a week with a maximum of two days duty cover in the team every month.
- To manage an OT caseload of clients with complex needs, using evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
- To take responsibility for completing standardised assessments using The Model of Human Occupation and other frameworks as agreed by the Therapy Leads.
- To offer manualised interventions, both group and individual for example, GLOW (Graduated Living Outside of the Ward) and IPEL (Increasing Participation in Everyday Life)
- To offer Sensory Profiling to clients with sensory challenges.
- To participate in the planning, development and evaluation of OT services within the Community Team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
- To engage with the OT referrals process, identifying and prioritising the need for OT specific interventions.
- To provide leadership to junior staff through supervision and appraisal.
- To regularly supervise OT students on practice placement (expected standard is two students per year).
- To provide professional leadership to the Recovery Support Workers and engage in co-working pathways.
- To promote recovery and social inclusion.
- To work alongside the Involvement Team to actively promote service-user engagement and co-production.
- To work collaboratively with the Employment Specialist in the team, to enhance a positive vocational outcome for clients.
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust OT Service
- To contribute to streamline working from admission to discharge in keeping with the principles in the Adult Services Recovery Care pathway.
- To advocate for and promote the contribution of occupational therapy as a valuable resource with helping people to manage the impact of their symptoms on their ability to cope with daily occupations.
- To act as the designated Disability Champion leading the multi-disciplinary team in Disability Equality matters within the service and other areas as required.
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