Home First Assessor Occupational Therapist
Job summary
Home First Clinical Assessors Band 5 (Occupational Therapist)
The Community Independence Service (CIS) Urgent Community Response and Home First are developing services in Intermediate Care. There is an exciting opportunity to join our Home First Pathway as a Band 5 Occupational Therapist. The service aspires in supporting development of team members to strengthen the quality of our Home First Pathway and the services we provide. We aim to provide the best care to all our patients in their homes avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharge from hospital to home utilizing team members from a variety of clinical background.
We are looking for therapists with a passion for the highest standards of patient care and excellent team work. This role would be suitable for someone who enjoys working creatively beyond the traditional boundaries of normal practice and who has a real drive to make sure their patients get the best treatment possible.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 5 looking to develop further and diversify their scope of practice to support a small but expanding service working alongside the wider Community Independence Service Teams (CIS). We offer significant development opportunities and the chance to work in a supportive, friendly and exciting team.
The successful applicant will be well supported by the Pathway Lead (Occupational Therapist), band 7 OT/PT, band 6 OT/PT and the multidisciplinary team, physiotherapists, HCA's, nurses, paramedics and health technicians. Your role as a Home first assessor in CIS will be to work in an integrated way and provide a high quality, client-led and goal focused treatment. You will be working across Home First and Urgent Community Response caseloads.
Continuing professional development is actively supported via clinical supervision, Personal Development Reviews and in-house training. Professional development is supported by involvement in service improvement and quality improvement projects. There may be an opportunity to rotate with Rehab team within Westminster CIS.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
About us
In return for your skills and dedication to the team and our patients we endeavour to provide:
- A supportive environment to learn and develop your new skills.
- Opportunities to work with Consultant Geriatricians to advance your clinical management skills of patients in their own home.
- Regular training above and beyond statutory and mandatory training.
- An emphasis on a good work life balance including meal breaks to enable staff to perform at their best.
- A management team that listens to and acts on your concerns.
- Experience helping to manage the team.
- Invitations to attend the monthly CIS Occupational Therapy forums with other colleagues from across the three boroughs.
- A full NHS benefits package plus a lease car option.
- Agenda for change pay scale band 5 + inner London weighting.
For this post, the following are essential:
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills
- Current HCPC registration
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To identify/case find and pull potential CIS patients in partnership with acute colleagues ensuring that as soon as patients are medically stable they are transferred to the appropriate community service.
- To independently undertake assessments of health and social care needs of patients in order to plan community services required.
- To support and enable the process of safe discharge from secondary to Community Services and assist in bridging the gap from hospital to home.
- To proactively promote a seamless and multidisciplinary approach to health and social care provision.
- To proactively develop close working relationships with primary, secondary, voluntary and social care colleagues which promotes and supports effectively, utilising resources, ensuring patients receive the right service at the right time and in the right environment.
- To ensure that the patients individual needs, cultural beliefs, dignity and privacy are maintained at all times.
- To work in partnership with secondary care on the further development of CIS Liaison to be responsive to patient and service needs.
- To work in partnership with GPs in order to plan and provide the best care for their patients in the community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Occupational Therapist with current registration with relevant professional body
- Evidence of continuing professional education and training at degree level
- Membership and/or involvement in special interest group
- Post -registration qualification
Experience
- Experience of negotiating and liaising within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of urgent therapy assessments and developing and delivering care plans to meet theseneeds
- Experience of working in collaboration with and across organisational boundaries
- Experience of dealing with difficult or unexpected situations
- Experience in presenting and service promotion
- A problem-solving approach
- Experience of service improvement
- Evidence of recent post-registration experience in community therapy, urgent community response, and/or discharge planning
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
Knowledge.
- oKnowledge and application of principles of care for long term conditions, relevant NSFs and other national standards
- oAble to work autonomously, planning and prioritising own workload and that of others
- oAble to deal with conflict and manage appropriately
- oAbility to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- oAbility to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing and to make onward referrals to otheragencies
- oKnowledge of common clinical presentations in the primary care setting and application of successful treatment plans and outcomes
- oKnowledge and application of current health care policy and relevance to the delivery of healthcare services
- oKnowledge and application of clinical supervision
- oCompetent computer skills
- oAble to work outside own professional boundaries for basic competencies across nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy in a 'first responder' model of servicedelivery
- oKnowledge and application of change management
Other
- oAble to work in a mobile and agile way using a laptop and smartphone
- Able to drive a car or willing to use public transport
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
7F Hathaway House
Woodfield Road
London
W9 2BA
https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
- Company
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom W9 2BA
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £34089.00 - £41498.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom W9 2BA
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £34089.00 - £41498.00 a year
- Posted