Occupational Therapist
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About the Role
The role involves providing therapeutic interventions, collaborating in a multidisciplinary team, and ensuring quality care for clients with disabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Undertake duties in accordance with the philosophy, business practices and policies of NMCRH KC
- Work as a professional member of a multi disciplinary rehabilitation team
- Assess clients' needs for specific equipment and adaptations
- Provide emotional support to clients and their families
- Participate in continuing education and courses
Requirements
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Advanced clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills
- Experience in equipment and adaptations assessment
- Ability to supervise and train junior staff
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Overview
- Working as a professional member of a multi disciplinary rehabilitation team and actively participating in team meetings.
Responsibilities
- Undertake duties in accordance with the philosophy, business practices and policies of NMCRH KC, and practicing within the standards and ethics of the Occupational therapist profession.
- Effectively communicating with staff members, health professionals, clients and family with regards to provision of services.
- Contributing to, and participating in, education programs for residents, relatives and staff of NMCRH KC.
- Participating in continuing education and courses updating Occupational therapy techniques and information.
- Ensuring all adverse clinical events are recorded and reported.
- Assisting in the on going maintenance of a safe work place through involvement in the implementation of safe systems of work.
- Identifying and reporting hazards in the workplace.
- Ensure that all therapists within the team use the analysis of the assessment and risks, to determine therapy aims and treatment goals, and then formulate intervention plans to reduce the impact of disability and promote independence, in collaboration with the client, cares, other team members and r
- Identify and select with the client/cares the most appropriate intervention, which balances the complexity of risk, safety, client/ care choice, independence, areas of conflict, eligibility for service and cost effectiveness.
- Using advanced experience and knowledge assess the client’s needs for specific equipment and adaptations to allow them to improve or maintain their level of independence.
- To support staff to prepare and present the case to the Equipment and Adaptations Panel, to then be responsible for the installation of that equipment, ensuring that appropriate risk assessments and any necessary training are carried out to ensure that the client and their cares are safe in its use.
- Using highly advanced clinical reasoning and critical thinking to analyses the assessment made by others for equipment and adaptations. To act as an approved signatory on a one to one basis, and as Chair of the Equipment and Adaptation panel.
Qualifications
- Maintain highly specialized professional knowledge and skills, being conversant with professional developments, evidencing critical appraisal skills, continuing professional development and an advanced understanding of clinical governance, especially in relation to the adult and elderly client group
- To develop and maintain highly specialist knowledge and skills (with regard to adults and elders with physical disabilities, in particular equip and adaptations) and act as a resource by providing detailed advice to team members.
- To participate in educational courses/ seminars relevant to the service needs and to own individual highly specialist skills.
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