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Occupational Therapist for Islington Urgent Response Team
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 7 days a week, 08:00-20:00
Job ref
220-WHT-2131
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hornsey Rise Health Centre
Town
London
Salary
£42,471 - £50,364 42,471-50,364 per annum including HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Band 6 -Occupational Therapist for Islington Urgent Response Team

NHS AfC: Band 6

Covid-19 Vaccination 

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support  staff to get  COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. 

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

The post holder will work in the Islington Rapid Response and Virtual Ward team which is part of the wider multi-agency Islington Urgent Care Response service which supports hospital discharges and admission avoidance.

RRVW  is co-located and integrated with therapy and adult social services colleagues and aims to respond to patient referrals  in the community within 2 hours to prevent admission to hospital.

The post holder will primarily be working in Islington borough but may be required to see patients in other NCL boroughs.

Main duties of the job

 

  • Demonstrate specialist theoretical knowledge of complex acute and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of clients.
  • Work closely with other health professionals and social services and provide specialist Occupational Therapy advice in meeting the needs of the clients.
  • Conduct a thorough holistic Occupational Therapy assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures.
  • Recommend appropriate interventions to promote functional independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.
  • Complete individual plans of care for clients who require input from integrated community services bed-based or home-based rehabilitation input.
  • Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that client’s needs are met.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Participate in MDT meetings and complex family conferences.
  • Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients.
  • To be able to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner.
  • Seek guidance from more experienced colleagues when required.
  • To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
  • To be a competent practitioner and to be able to assess a referred patient at first point of contact.
  • To manage complex clinical situations, demonstrating clear clinical reasoning from own observations and interventions to enable safe, timely transfer of care to community services.
  • To prevent unnecessary hospital admissions by responding to LAS, GP’s, community colleagues and actively identify patients in conjunction with health colleagues from the Emergency Department, Clinical Decision Unit, and short stay wards.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Hold a recognised degree or diploma in Occupational Therapy.
  • Current HCPC registration

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of 2 years post qualifying work experience in an NHS or Social Care setting
  • Work experience in an in-pt acute physical work setting, community setting or social care setting.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of supervising support staff, or students and completing/contributing to the appraisal/marking process.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate work appropriately to manage a busy and varied caseload.
  • Proven skills in therapeutic handling and the ability to undertake risk assessments in relation to service users handling requirements. Safe and effective use of moving and handling equipment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helen Attlesey
Job title
Occupational Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02072883670
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