Occupational Therapist
- Employer
- Livewell Southwest CIC
- Location
- Plymouth
- Salary
- £37,338 to £44,962 a year pa, pro-rata
- Closing date
- 15 Oct 2024
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- Profession
- Occupational therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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37.5 hours per week.
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) with diverse clinical skills? Have you got a passion for providing Occupational Therapy for people in their own homes? Do you want to work in a friendly and supportive team that promotes wellbeing of colleagues as a high priority? Then wed like to meet you!
The Integrated Community Therapy teams provide a person-centred approach for clients aged18yrs and upwards, with a focus on keeping them safe and well in their own homes. Your caseload will be varied and will include work to support hospital discharges and rehabilitation, prevent admissions, and maximise independence thorough the provision of equipment, major and/or minor adaptations.
It is essential that you are an excellent communicator, who is competent in a wide range of clinical areas and enjoys facilitating student education as we regularly support students on placement.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
You will be provided with excellent support through regular line management and practice supervision meetings, and numerous opportunities for individual learning and CPD. Our directorate, Adult, Frailty and Specialist Services (AFSS) is also pioneering a Shared Skills Programme which will broaden clinicians skill sets further, to improve the delivery of care for our clients.
Living and working in Plymouth means that you will have easy access to Dartmoor and the Devon & Cornwall coasts. These all offer an accessible range of social & leisure pursuits. Team walks and other activities are also regularly arranged outside of the working day for those that wish to partake.
This post is ideally suited to someone wishing to combine a challenging & satisfying job with a great quality of life.
We welcome and encourage informal visits to the team.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values,kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
5.1Responsibility for People Management.
To take responsibility for all aspects of service delivery, including providing leadership to junior colleagues, providing cover for staff who are absent and deputising in the team leads absence.
Deputising in the absence of the Registered manager or Team Lead can include operational/leadership duties such as supporting triage, waiting list management, attending meetings and delegation of work to junior staff.
To take a flexible approach to supporting colleagues in times of caseload pressure, including working with colleagues to maintain clinical cover across the team within the resources available.
To co-ordinate the day-to-day activities of junior and admin staff where applicable.
To regularly supervise and line manage both workload and caseload of Band 5 or non registered staff, undertaking and recording line management meetings and appraisals, supporting the attainment of competencies, knowledge and achieving objectives set out in their personal development plan.
To take responsibility and assist the team lead with the recruitment process of junior staff e.g. taking part in interview panels, induction process and engaging with preceptorship programmes.
To support junior staff and other Livewell SW health and social care professionals, to develop their knowledge, experience, providing advice, guidance, and signposting where appropriate.
To regularly provide learning opportunities to junior staff and colleagues. This includes facilitating and providing instruction, training to supporting their development, attainment of skills, and ability to reflect on professional and ethical issues.
To attend student educator training and regularly supervise OT students on practice placement, in line with Livewell SWs Placement Guidance for Non-Medical Undergraduate Learners and Students policy.
To support colleagues as a practice supervisor or supporting those completing the Preceptorship programme, including acting as a Preceptor in line with Livewell SWs Preceptorship Guidance document.
To participate in providing instruction, learning opportunities, experience and training to health and social care staff and students, including those from other Livewell services, professional disciplines and colleges as agreed with Team Lead.
To plan, organise and lead when delegated, both formal and informal treatments and health education groups for both service users and formal/informal carers.
To educate service users and both formal or informal carers regarding the impact of cognitive, perceptual, and physical deficits that affect service user safety and independence in the hospital and home, leisure, and workplace.
5.2Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources.
On the rare occasion you may handle service users valuables as part of a home visit or community assessment, that you follow Livewell SWs policy Cash & Cheque Handling Procedures, section 6 Patient Money, section 7 Patient Travel.
To assess, prescribe and authorise both general and specialist aids and adaptive equipment in line with the organisations and the Community Equipment Services policy and procedures.
To make recommendations for minor adaptations to increase / enable or compensate for independent function, teaching compensatory techniques as required.
To assess seating and positioning needs and treat as appropriate including assessment for and prescription of standard wheelchairs and accessories when accredited referring on to the wheelchair services as required for assessment of complex and specialist mobility and seating needs.
To assess for splinting and positioning to prevent, treat and manage deformity and improve function for the upper limb, fabricating splints which may be complex in nature.
To ensure all equipment and relevant clinical stock is accounted for, maintained, used effectively and efficiently with risk assessments and appropriate training completed.
To ensure new or replacement equipment is not used by self or staff until it has been commissioned in accordance with Livewell SW policy. Defective equipment is reported and made safe without delay in accordance with Livewell SW procedures.
To utilise Livewell SW resources responsibly, following policy and guidance around the security, useability, decontamination, and maintenance of assessment equipment utilised in the clinical setting.
To have a working knowledge of statutory and non-statutory funding and the legislation/guidance that underpins these funding streams, ensuring service users meet the eligibility criteria when advocating for/ utilising services on the service users behalf (e.g. Care Act eligibility, Housing legislation etc)
To assess the need for short/long term care placements or care packages for service users where required factoring in the use of equipment, techniques or compensatory methods that safely meet the service users care needs whilst aiming to preserve health and social care budgets wherever possible.
5.3Responsibility for administration.
To maintain high professional standards and conduct at all times, complying with the standards of practice stipulated in the Royal College of Occupational Therapys Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics and all of HCPC standards and regulations.
To follow Livewell uniform policy at all times, and to present in a professional manner.
To exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance.
To comply with the Lone Working Policy and procedures, utilising safety devices and/or apps, and always informing the department of your whereabouts during work hours.
To manage often competing clinical and non-clinical demands, prioritising the day-to-day management of own caseload and that of the team, delegating activities as appropriate.
To work as an autonomous practitioner, independently organising, planning, and diarising a designated caseload to meet service priorities, readjusting plans as situations change and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, applying logical professional rationale that is based upon evidence based / person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To ensure use of risk assessment in all areas of your work are undertaken and comply with Livewell SW Health and Safety policies and Lone Working Policy.
To maintain up to date, accurate and complete records of all activity and clinical input (all formats of service user contacts, MDT care plans, assessments, reports), ensuring confidentiality at all times, complying with Livewell SW Health & Corporate Records policy and HCPC requirements for thorough and sufficient records.
To provide written communication to outside agencies and charitable bodies to support the need for services and equipment on discharge from the service.
To be responsible for the timely discharge of people from your caseload.
To utilise and complete applicable outcome measures in your service and offer service user feedback mechanisms when facilitating the discharge of service users from Livewell SW services.
To actively engage in caseload supervision with line manager, taking responsibility for ensuring own personal and professional development and statutory training demonstrating the ability to apply increasingly complex skills / knowledge as defined by identified competencies.
To submit completed travel expenses in line with Livewell SWs Travel and Subsistence Expense Claims policy.
To ensure all leave is requested in line with Livewell SW policy.
To report accidents, incidents, complaints, or faulty equipment in line with Livewell SW policy and procedures.
5.4Responsibility for people who use our services.
To ensure the service user is aware of the role and philosophy of OT and components of the OT process, utilising all means necessary to enable individuals to understand the nature and purpose of proposed actions or intervention, including explaining any possible risks involved.
To keep up to date with mental capacity legislation, assessing mental capacity and imparting sufficient information to the service user in order to gain valid informed consent, which must be documented and gained at every intervention. For consent to be valid, HCPC stipulate it must be voluntary and informed, and the person giving consent must have the capacity to make the decision.
To act in a service users best interest at all times, factoring in their known views, beliefs, values, and instructions expressed, when undertaking care or an intervention where the service user lacks capacity to give expressed consent.
To consider if the lack of capacity may be temporary, and where possible, postponing intervention or decision making until they regain capacity to ensure involvement of the service user in their own care as far as is reasonably practicable and possible.
To actively participate in the complex MDT functions and the support individuals with decision making around the application of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and adhering to the principles of Best Interest legislation.
To be responsible for the comprehensive holistic assessment, treatment and evaluation of service users including those with complex presentation using treatment techniques to promote normal movement, motor relearning, cognitive therapy, compensatory techniques, and daily living skills. Interventions may consider wider areas such as return to employment, education, driving, vocational rehabilitation etc.
Please download full job description for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) with diverse clinical skills? Have you got a passion for providing Occupational Therapy for people in their own homes? Do you want to work in a friendly and supportive team that promotes wellbeing of colleagues as a high priority? Then wed like to meet you!
The Integrated Community Therapy teams provide a person-centred approach for clients aged18yrs and upwards, with a focus on keeping them safe and well in their own homes. Your caseload will be varied and will include work to support hospital discharges and rehabilitation, prevent admissions, and maximise independence thorough the provision of equipment, major and/or minor adaptations.
It is essential that you are an excellent communicator, who is competent in a wide range of clinical areas and enjoys facilitating student education as we regularly support students on placement.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
You will be provided with excellent support through regular line management and practice supervision meetings, and numerous opportunities for individual learning and CPD. Our directorate, Adult, Frailty and Specialist Services (AFSS) is also pioneering a Shared Skills Programme which will broaden clinicians skill sets further, to improve the delivery of care for our clients.
Living and working in Plymouth means that you will have easy access to Dartmoor and the Devon & Cornwall coasts. These all offer an accessible range of social & leisure pursuits. Team walks and other activities are also regularly arranged outside of the working day for those that wish to partake.
This post is ideally suited to someone wishing to combine a challenging & satisfying job with a great quality of life.
We welcome and encourage informal visits to the team.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values,kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
5.1Responsibility for People Management.
To take responsibility for all aspects of service delivery, including providing leadership to junior colleagues, providing cover for staff who are absent and deputising in the team leads absence.
Deputising in the absence of the Registered manager or Team Lead can include operational/leadership duties such as supporting triage, waiting list management, attending meetings and delegation of work to junior staff.
To take a flexible approach to supporting colleagues in times of caseload pressure, including working with colleagues to maintain clinical cover across the team within the resources available.
To co-ordinate the day-to-day activities of junior and admin staff where applicable.
To regularly supervise and line manage both workload and caseload of Band 5 or non registered staff, undertaking and recording line management meetings and appraisals, supporting the attainment of competencies, knowledge and achieving objectives set out in their personal development plan.
To take responsibility and assist the team lead with the recruitment process of junior staff e.g. taking part in interview panels, induction process and engaging with preceptorship programmes.
To support junior staff and other Livewell SW health and social care professionals, to develop their knowledge, experience, providing advice, guidance, and signposting where appropriate.
To regularly provide learning opportunities to junior staff and colleagues. This includes facilitating and providing instruction, training to supporting their development, attainment of skills, and ability to reflect on professional and ethical issues.
To attend student educator training and regularly supervise OT students on practice placement, in line with Livewell SWs Placement Guidance for Non-Medical Undergraduate Learners and Students policy.
To support colleagues as a practice supervisor or supporting those completing the Preceptorship programme, including acting as a Preceptor in line with Livewell SWs Preceptorship Guidance document.
To participate in providing instruction, learning opportunities, experience and training to health and social care staff and students, including those from other Livewell services, professional disciplines and colleges as agreed with Team Lead.
To plan, organise and lead when delegated, both formal and informal treatments and health education groups for both service users and formal/informal carers.
To educate service users and both formal or informal carers regarding the impact of cognitive, perceptual, and physical deficits that affect service user safety and independence in the hospital and home, leisure, and workplace.
5.2Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources.
On the rare occasion you may handle service users valuables as part of a home visit or community assessment, that you follow Livewell SWs policy Cash & Cheque Handling Procedures, section 6 Patient Money, section 7 Patient Travel.
To assess, prescribe and authorise both general and specialist aids and adaptive equipment in line with the organisations and the Community Equipment Services policy and procedures.
To make recommendations for minor adaptations to increase / enable or compensate for independent function, teaching compensatory techniques as required.
To assess seating and positioning needs and treat as appropriate including assessment for and prescription of standard wheelchairs and accessories when accredited referring on to the wheelchair services as required for assessment of complex and specialist mobility and seating needs.
To assess for splinting and positioning to prevent, treat and manage deformity and improve function for the upper limb, fabricating splints which may be complex in nature.
To ensure all equipment and relevant clinical stock is accounted for, maintained, used effectively and efficiently with risk assessments and appropriate training completed.
To ensure new or replacement equipment is not used by self or staff until it has been commissioned in accordance with Livewell SW policy. Defective equipment is reported and made safe without delay in accordance with Livewell SW procedures.
To utilise Livewell SW resources responsibly, following policy and guidance around the security, useability, decontamination, and maintenance of assessment equipment utilised in the clinical setting.
To have a working knowledge of statutory and non-statutory funding and the legislation/guidance that underpins these funding streams, ensuring service users meet the eligibility criteria when advocating for/ utilising services on the service users behalf (e.g. Care Act eligibility, Housing legislation etc)
To assess the need for short/long term care placements or care packages for service users where required factoring in the use of equipment, techniques or compensatory methods that safely meet the service users care needs whilst aiming to preserve health and social care budgets wherever possible.
5.3Responsibility for administration.
To maintain high professional standards and conduct at all times, complying with the standards of practice stipulated in the Royal College of Occupational Therapys Professional standards for occupational therapy practice, conduct and ethics and all of HCPC standards and regulations.
To follow Livewell uniform policy at all times, and to present in a professional manner.
To exercise good personal time management, punctuality, and consistent reliable attendance.
To comply with the Lone Working Policy and procedures, utilising safety devices and/or apps, and always informing the department of your whereabouts during work hours.
To manage often competing clinical and non-clinical demands, prioritising the day-to-day management of own caseload and that of the team, delegating activities as appropriate.
To work as an autonomous practitioner, independently organising, planning, and diarising a designated caseload to meet service priorities, readjusting plans as situations change and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, applying logical professional rationale that is based upon evidence based / person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To ensure use of risk assessment in all areas of your work are undertaken and comply with Livewell SW Health and Safety policies and Lone Working Policy.
To maintain up to date, accurate and complete records of all activity and clinical input (all formats of service user contacts, MDT care plans, assessments, reports), ensuring confidentiality at all times, complying with Livewell SW Health & Corporate Records policy and HCPC requirements for thorough and sufficient records.
To provide written communication to outside agencies and charitable bodies to support the need for services and equipment on discharge from the service.
To be responsible for the timely discharge of people from your caseload.
To utilise and complete applicable outcome measures in your service and offer service user feedback mechanisms when facilitating the discharge of service users from Livewell SW services.
To actively engage in caseload supervision with line manager, taking responsibility for ensuring own personal and professional development and statutory training demonstrating the ability to apply increasingly complex skills / knowledge as defined by identified competencies.
To submit completed travel expenses in line with Livewell SWs Travel and Subsistence Expense Claims policy.
To ensure all leave is requested in line with Livewell SW policy.
To report accidents, incidents, complaints, or faulty equipment in line with Livewell SW policy and procedures.
5.4Responsibility for people who use our services.
To ensure the service user is aware of the role and philosophy of OT and components of the OT process, utilising all means necessary to enable individuals to understand the nature and purpose of proposed actions or intervention, including explaining any possible risks involved.
To keep up to date with mental capacity legislation, assessing mental capacity and imparting sufficient information to the service user in order to gain valid informed consent, which must be documented and gained at every intervention. For consent to be valid, HCPC stipulate it must be voluntary and informed, and the person giving consent must have the capacity to make the decision.
To act in a service users best interest at all times, factoring in their known views, beliefs, values, and instructions expressed, when undertaking care or an intervention where the service user lacks capacity to give expressed consent.
To consider if the lack of capacity may be temporary, and where possible, postponing intervention or decision making until they regain capacity to ensure involvement of the service user in their own care as far as is reasonably practicable and possible.
To actively participate in the complex MDT functions and the support individuals with decision making around the application of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and adhering to the principles of Best Interest legislation.
To be responsible for the comprehensive holistic assessment, treatment and evaluation of service users including those with complex presentation using treatment techniques to promote normal movement, motor relearning, cognitive therapy, compensatory techniques, and daily living skills. Interventions may consider wider areas such as return to employment, education, driving, vocational rehabilitation etc.
Please download full job description for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Evidence of on-going education and professional development
- Computer literate
- Recognised qualification in written and spoken English if this is not first language
Desirable
- Recognised first-line management/leadership qualification
- Membership of relevant special interest groups
- ECDL or equivalent
- Current valid UK driving licence
- Basic Food Hygiene training
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
- Supervisory and appraisal skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information
- Skills in clinical assessme
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