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Location
Lowestoft, Suffolk | United Kingdom
Job description
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high standards of clinical care for the patients under your management and support others to do likewise. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis and prognosis in a wide range of conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention and to develop comprehensive management strategies for the patient's presenting condition. To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients, using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care. To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To develop the skills and dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients. To be safe and competent in the use of therapy equipment, relevant to the rotation setting, with support and training from the senior therapist as appropriate. To recommend/ prescribe equipment and minor adaptations, following assessment and use of clinical reasoning skills, in order to compensate for unresolved functional deficits, in line with local resources, guidelines and legislation. To facilitate safe provision of equipment and instruct patients, family and carers in the use of equipment, as appropriate. To assess, using clinical reasoning for minor adaptations, take measurements and communicate the recommendations, through reports and diagrams to adaptation providers, with support from senior therapists. To have an awareness of potential psychological risk factors and the functional implications of these. To provide spontaneous and planned specialist advice, teaching, and instruction to relatives, carers and other professions to promote understanding of the aims of occupational therapy and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care. To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out occupational therapy duties and to adhere to any relevant policies, including competence to use equipment and ensure safe use of equipment by others through teaching, training and supervision of practice. To supervise assistants practitioner and support staff when appropriate To provide clinical supervision for occupational therapy students on their first introductory placement and to explain the role of occupational therapy to departmental visitors. Assist more senior staff in the training of students and occupational therapy assistants. To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of the their condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation will be used with a variety of patients. Communicate effectively with all members of the occupational therapy team, AHPs and community nursing and other professions to ensure a collaborative approach to the management of the patient's condition. To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within the legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
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Salary
£28.41k - £34.58k per annum
