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The post holder will:

•                   Apply enhanced clinical knowledge and skills to the work environment.

•                   Identify and verify factors including contra-indications apparent from patient history.

•                   To deliver specific interventions in line with the treatment pathway, including complex clients.

•                   To deliver professional evidence-based OT assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and evaluation of service users’ needs.

•                   To deliver Occupational Therapy through patient engagement in meaningful activity in areas of self-care, productivity and leisure, utilising individual or group work.

•                   Evaluate potential efficacy of planned intervention, given all available data.

•                   Liaise with colleagues and other clinicians to clarify and resolve any discrepancies or difficulties in the evaluation of patient data.

•                   Generate options including modification or alternatives to planned intervention to meet clinical need as appropriate.

•                   Verify suitability and potential effectiveness of planned intervention or suggested alternatives.

•                   Agree course of action with those responsible for performing the intervention.

•                   Document key points of agreement, including specific factors which influenced advice and recommendations.

•                   Assess and plan care delivery for individual service users within the framework of the Care Programme Approach / keyworker responsibilities. 

•                   To facilitate transfer between services, signpost and/ or discharge as appropriate. 

•                   To routinely enquire, identify and report through the appropriate procedures any safeguarding issues.

•                   To report safeguarding issues that are identified via others.

•                   To perform the role of investigator for matters of safeguarding as directed by the safeguarding manager 

•                   Work in partnership with service users in developing their care plan. 

•                   Obtain valid consent from an individual or relevant other for a range of healthcare activities.

•                   To participate as part of the multi-disciplinary team implementing, evaluating and reviewing all aspects of the service users’ care. 

•                   Advise, inform, and support on the physical health and wellbeing of individuals (services users, their family, their significant other) in a holistic way.

•                   Liaise, advise, and inform service providers to enable them to support services users to access and use services in a way which respects their values and supports their rights.

Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in relation to supporting the recovery and wellbeing of service users. 

•                   To undertake the Occupational Therapy process in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and professional code of ethics and professional conduct.