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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken. To work within the standards and guidelines of the team, the Trust, BAOT, HCPC and the RCOT Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
2. To ensure that the client and or their carer has an understanding of treatment protocols and gives informed consent to assessment and treatment.
3. To set and maintain a high standard of clinical practice which is evidence based where possible, using standardised assessment and outcome measures, where appropriate
4. To undertake specialist occupational therapy assessment of clients with diverse needs through subjective questioning, objective assessment and other written material available.
5. To prioritise factors involved in the clients presenting condition through clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, clients prognosis and other physical, social emotional and mental health issues.
6. To set goals for treatment with clients and/or their carer and ensure that care is client centred and agreed by the client and/or their carer.
7. To set and maintain a high standard of clinical practice which is evidence based where possible, using standardised assessment and outcome measures, where appropriate.
8. To independently screen and assess complex multi-disciplinary referrals/care plans from a variety of sources. This screening requires individual responsible action when at times no other professional is currently involved. This screening will establish priority, determine needs and initiate a plan of intervention.
9. To manage a caseload of clients with simple to complex needs with supervision and guidance as necessary from senior staff. To successfully monitor, evaluate and review occupational therapy treatment/interventions within a multi-disciplinary framework and to modify as necessary taking a key worker role as indicated.
10. Develop and conduct occupational therapy intervention with clients assessing their occupational needs and addressing quality of life, and physical, cognitive, affective, social, and environmental issues utilising appropriate individual or group treatment methods.
11. To use developed physical skills in client interventions, such as home exercise programs, activities of daily living adaptation and training, positioning, palliative occupational therapy.
12. To work autonomously in isolated community situations which vary in relation to local socio-economic and multi-cultural issues with telephone support available if required.
13. To use knowledge of other multi-disciplinary roles and external agencies to ensure effective referral management and achieve best client care.
14. To have the ability, knowledge and skills required for moving and handling people in community environments.
15. To case manage clients effectively by undertaking daily handovers, ensuring timely and appropriate information is reported to the relevant  professionals, making referrals etc.
16. To update and monitor the safe staffing/acuity and dependency assessments of clients
17. To support the service in meeting service staffing requirements by undertaken community visits or cover for Coordinator staff where necessary in order to ensure that a safe service is provided to clients.
18. To be physically able to install specialist occupational therapy equipment in a client’s home applying safe manual handling at all times, especially when doing so in restricted spaces.
19. To ensure client and service records are recorded and maintained on IT databases and that client documentation is managed according to trust and local policies.

20. To prescribe, delegate and monitor the work of Community Health Support Workers.

21. To educate and teach the relevant health workers to participate in on-going reablement and care programmes for clients, as appropriate.

22. To actively be involved in the development of new specialist clinical services within the team, with support and guidance from senior OT staff.

We will also consider applications from Band 5 candidates with appropriate experience, motivation and willingness to learn that are looking for developmental role opportunities and progressing to Band 6 role within very supportive Community setting team.