Job overview

JOB PURPOSE
To Provide urgent high-quality, short-term programs of care for vulnerable adults in their own home with acute 
health needs, and to facilitate timely discharge from urgent and acute care settings.
 Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of 
clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and 
maintaining professional documentation.
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate timely assessment and co-ordinated discharge planning, 
liaising with appropriate team members when patient’s are acutely unwell.
 To hold responsibility for own caseload, working with and without direct supervision. 
Provide support, teaching and clinical supervision for other team members, student Occupational Therapists.
To work flexibly, being willing to work on other Unplanned Care pathways when required.

Main duties of the job

To undertake specialised multi-professional assessments, develop and implement treatment plans for clients 
referred to the Unplanned Care services. These clients will present with a variety of complex multi-pathologies 
within specialist areas, including neurological conditions.
Participate in triaging referrals and allocation of visits appropriately.
To communicate relevant medical information, assessment details, advice and recommendations across 
agencies and with clients in compliance with trust guidelines for sharing of information and informed consent. 
Following specialist assessment, to use advanced clinical reasoning, analysis, assessment and reassessment skills and using a client-centered goal setting approach, to develop and provide individual 
occupational therapy treatments and programmes for clients. These treatment techniques may include 
functional activities, manual occupational therapy treatment techniques or patient and care giver education. 
To demonstrate compassion, empathy and sensitivity towards clients who may have complex emotional and 
physical conditions such as fear of falling, anxiety, pain and other physical, psychological and social concerns 
or when delivering unwelcome news around their condition or rehabilitation prognosis.
To comply with local risk assessments when dealing with complex clients with challenging behavioural needs 
and high risk environments

Working for our organisation

We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

• stay well

• manage their own health with the right support

• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence