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Job role: Occupational Therapist
Salary: £44,485 to £52,521 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 294-MHCA-7845266-JB-B
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About the Job:
- To apply a high level of understanding of the effects of disability on occupational performance and provide training and advice on lifestyles changes and adaptations to the clients social and physical environment.
- To consider both physical and mental health needs as part of the occupational therapy assessment.
- To identify any significant risk factors in line with local policies, with support from senior staff
- To contribute to and work within clinical pathways and protocols.
- To identify occupational therapy goals as part of the overall care plan, using specialist mental health and occupational therapy assessments, including MOHO tools.
- To promote social inclusion and physical and mental well-being using evidence based practice. This is underpinned by the principles of hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention.
- To plan and implement specialist individual and/or group interventions collaboratively, to enable service users to achieve valued goals and satisfactory occupational performance outcome.
- To independently manage a clinical caseload of service user with complex mental health needs.
- To exercise clinical professional judgement in complex clinical cases and difficult clinical situation, referring to senior staff when necessary.
- To promote equality of outcome for service users that reflect their mental health needs and those of ethnicity, gender, culture physical health and age.
- To evaluate effectiveness of therapy interventions and quality of clinical decisions in conjunction with service users/carers, other professionals etc.
- To establish and maintain effective communication networks with users and carers, team members, occupational therapy colleagues and other agencies.
- To communicate with people in a manner consistent with their culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.
- To work as a member of the inter-professional team, attending meetings and contributing to decisions with regard to the care and treatment of service users.
- To work in partnership with PCT, LA, voluntary and other relevant agencies to promote a seamless service.
- To educate service users and carers on occupational therapy interventions, for example, the use of equipment.
- To promote awareness of the role of occupational therapy within the team, negotiating priorities where appropriate.
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