ICS Newly qualified Rotational Occupational Therapist

• ICS Newly qualified Rotational Occupational Therapist
• Job Purpose

To contribute to a high quality service by carrying out assessment, goal setting, implementing treatment programmes and evaluation of adult clients who may have complex and/ or chronic presentations including musculoskeletal, sensory impairment, medical and mental health needs, with support and supervision from senior physiotherapists.

To work within Community Beds Team withing Health Reablement service .

This may extend or change to other community services in-line with organisational development To support clients to improve or maintain their level of function and quality of life and plan future care in an appropriate setting in partnership with multi-disciplinary team (MDT) colleagues, including liaising, supporting and referring on to health services, voluntary services and public sector agencies.

To participate actively in the services training strategy, including in-service training, organisation-specific and multi-agency training.

To be responsible for planning a safe discharge from the service.

To act as Key Worker as required.

The post holder will be substantively employed by Nottingham City Care Partnership CIC within the Community Beds Team.

However this role forms part of an Integrated Care System (ICS) rotational programme and the post holder will be expected to undertake rotational placements across partner within ICS health and social care organisations.

Dimensions

Responsible for Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment for a defined clinical caseload appropriate to the service area.

Working in conjunction with and under supervision of a senior OT and other senior clinical professionals.

Lead group sessions where appropriate.

Able to fulfil physical demands of role, including manual handling applications.

Will be required to travel city-wide for client visits, meetings and training.

To participate in rehabilitation treatment programmes with the MDT.

To carry out training of other members of staff.

Support senior colleagues with the facilitation of student placements.

Key Responsibilities

• To support the Adult Health and Social Care Transformation programme in achieving objectives for citizens; Help people to keep safe and well Support personal and community resilience and strengths Increase, retain or restore independence View the citizen in the driving seat, as the expert in their own life
• To undertake strengths based outcome focused assessments of need including monitoring, coordination and review of adults and children where appropriate
• WLD specific: To undertake case management responsibilities that include assessments of need, within a Whole Life, strengths based person centred approach, monitoring, coordinating and reviewing of care and support plans being able to reach down in working with children, young people and adults as part of preparation for adulthood.
• Professionalism
• Demonstrate an effective and active use of supervision for accountability, professional reflection and development.
• Take responsibility for managing time and workload effectively, and begin to prioritise activities including ensuring supervision time.
• Recognise professional strengths and limitations and how to seek advice in a timely manner.
• Values and Ethics
• Demonstrate respectful partnership work with service users and carers, eliciting and respecting needs and views, promoting participation in decision‑making wherever possible.
• Recognise and promote individuals rights to autonomy and self-determination recognising the value of, and aid access to, independent advocacy.
• Diversity and Equality
• Take account of how an individuals identity is informed by factors such as culture, economic status, family composition, life experiences and characteristics and the intersection of such factors in order to understand their experiences, questioning assumptions where necessary.
• Rights, Justice and Economic Wellbeing
• Demonstrate skills and approaches to practice that promote strengths, and self-determination in people using services, carers, families and communities.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the legal and policy frameworks and guidance that inform and mandate occupational therapy practice, recognising the scope for professional judgement and its importance to ethical practice.
• Understand forms of harm and their impact on people, and the implications for practice, drawing on concepts of strength, resilience, vulnerability, risk and resistance.
• Critical Reflection and Analysis
• Inform evidence‑based decision‑making through the identification and gathering of information from multiple sources, rigorously questioning and evaluating the reliability and validity of information from different sources.
• Begin to formulate and make explicit, evidence‑informed judgements and justifiable decisions.

Skills and Interventions

• Demonstrate a holistic approach to the identification of needs, circumstances, rights, strengths and risks.
• Select and use appropriate frameworks to assess, give meaning to, plan, implement and review effective interventions and evaluate outcomes, in partnership.
• Record information in a timely, respectful and accurate manner.

Write records and reports, for a variety of purposes with language suited to purpose and audience, using plain English and optimising use of information management systems.

Distinguish fact from opinion and record conflicting views and perspectives.

• Context & Organisations
• Take responsibility for positively contributing to effective team working.
• Professional Leadership
• Recognise own ongoing responsibility to seek, plan and undertake continuing professional development.
• Adhere to NCC Behavioural Expectations.
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