Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties
1. To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge.
2. To gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey, enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.
3. To prioritise designated Occupational Therapy referrals according to need, risk and service capacity.
4. To plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficulties within ward/rehab hub setting.
5. To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
6. To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patient’s social and physical environment.
7. To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.
8. To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.
9. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.
10. To liaise with family members, carers, GP’s and other professionals as necessary when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
11. To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regarding their care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly, referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.
12. To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately. To monitor and work with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment,
being able to assess risk and complete management plans.
13. To lead the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care of the sector you have responsibility for.
14. Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of Occupational Therapy activities and comply with The Royal College of Occupational Therapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance of
promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
15. To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users by supervision of sector members’ caseloads and via audit.
16. To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.
17. To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who become anxious, hostile or distressed.
18. To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents and liaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidents are implemented.
19. To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
20. To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and independence to help them to remain in the community in their chosen setting or return to this on discharge.
21. To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act.